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REACH
REACHMD Consult, a freestanding corporation based at MCG Health System, has won $100,000 in funding and $150,000 in in-kind services from the first Georgia Research Alliance/Technology Association of Georgia New Business Launch Competition. Developed by the MCG Neuroscience Center, REACH (Remote Evaluation of Acute isCHemic Stroke) provides expert telehealth stroke care via a secure Web portal.
“Stroke care is often not available to patients at rural hospitals,” said Dr. David Hess, chief of neurology at MCG Health System and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. “We developed REACH in 2003 to help patients from rural hospitals in Georgia. Thanks to this award, we will now be able to commercialize and expand the REACH program even farther.”
Once commercialized, the REACH program could become a turnkey system that hospitals nationwide could use to provide expert acute stroke consultation.