VisualShare is the technology partner in a public-private partnership with Primary Children’s Medical Center Safe and Healthy Families Center (PCMC) the Utah State Attorney General, and Children’s Justice Centers throughout the State of Utah.
The role of VisualShare is to provide information technology for child abuse diagnosis. The information technology is provided through the solution TeleCAM that serves as a framework to facilitate peer review and case consultation between geographically distant medical providers specializing in the area of child abuse diagnosis.
Providers in child abuse medicine are often geographically remote from one another and have limited or no access to expert consultation and findings. TeleCAM is a framework that bridges examiners in rural communities with experts located in tertiary care centers. The approach allows children to be examined in their community environment by community providers that have access to expert clinical consultation in diagnosing child abuse.
The TeleCAM system is a web-based system that has been designed to reflect the workflow of nurses, nurse practitioners and physicians in the area of child abuse and maintains a record for diagnosis, training and reporting. Because TeleCAM is a web-based consultation record and has features that directly support the needs of practitioners in the field of child abuse diagnosis, clinical case management and oversight, image tracking and management and clinical case consultation and review are available to examiners in rural communities.
The public-private partnership developed in the State of Utah is a model for other States. Recently, VisualShare was asked to consider becoming involved as a technology partner with the Midwest Children's Resource Center and the Mississippi Children's Justice Center through a the grant from the Ronal McDonald Charities Foundation to provide case review and oversight for children’s advocacy groups in rural communities. This endeavor would allow small communities that do not have access to child abuse expertise to form a consortium that has access to a ‘super team’ of care providers in child abuse such as, mental health, law enforcement and medical oversight. Our goal is to provide a resource that can be accessed using telehealth and teleconsultation as a mechanism to support those needs.