[SatNews]After a year of scrambling to provide adequate care to victims of last year’s devastating earthquake, staff at Haiti’s Sacre Coeur hospital now have the ability to consult face-to-face with top medical experts in the United States and around the world ― thanks to the telemedicine and Internet service recently donated and implemented by Miami-based NewCom International.

Working in conjunction with iDirect, which donated all of the equipment for project, NewCom International provided the VideoMeetings™ application, Internet access, engineering design and ongoing technical support necessary to launch the service. Until now, the medical staff at Sacre Coeur – a hospital located about 70 miles from Port-au-Prince – could only consult with doctors via telephone to seek proper diagnosis and treatment for the rare infectious diseases and other dire health challenges patients in Haiti face, and didn’t have a way to quickly transmit critical medical documents for review. As a result, it was almost impossible for the partnering medical experts at the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins and other top medical institutions to adequately assist the Sacre Coeur staff. Thanks to the Internet Access and VideoMeetings™ service NewCom donated, the staff at Sacre Coeur are now able to consult face-to-face with numerous medical experts at the same time, regardless of where they are located in the world, and send large patient records and scans securely and in real time over the Internet.