Global Partnership for Telehealth Missions

• Impacting lives through healthcare needs!

• By: Michael D’Ambrosio

What is GPTM?

• Formed a little over a year ago,GPTM is another entity built under the Global Partnership for Telehealth Platform.

• GPTM was formed out of the noticeable impact on rural communities in Georgia and Alabama with a desire to carry that to the international front.

• Extend the reach- Improve the outcomes- Lower the costs…

Platform

• Global Partnership for Telehealth Missions (GPTM) is using the same successful platform that has worked tremendously in Georgia and Alabama and using it on a Global Missions front through Medical Mission Companies and Medical Mission trips.

Avenues

• Christian Universities • Hospitals on Foreign Land• Medical Mission Companies• Christian based organizations• Churches

Barriers

• Internet Connection• Funding• Partnerships• Physicians• Clinics• Medicine

Connectivity

• Need adequate bandwidth to be able to do a live telemedicine consult. – Satellite

• Opportunities to enable certain equipment with the capability to connect via satellite for Video calls.

– Phone service• Most countries, as poor as they may seem, still have cell

towers.

– Wireless• GPTM can also connect through the wireless or Modems

that are in the foreign country.

Funding

• Some equipment out in the field now has been donated by our organization.

• Employees of GPT have the option to donate any amount from there checks each week into our Missions Fund.

• Donations from other organizations such as Jackson Healthcare.

• Churches wanting to sponsor a clinic or take up a love offering.

Partnerships

• Physicians & Clinics• Need Physicians who are willing to donate time

to see kids through telemedicine. – Can be from the comfort of the home or the office.– Can be done with any amount of time frame.

• As an organization we don’t know every orphanage nor do we know who needs help in the healthcare field. We need churches and other organizations to help us connect to these clinics.

Medicine

• Most medicine is received from local pharmacies in the home country. Most countries have access to a lot of medicine they just lack the expertise in some of the remote locations to know what to give, when, and how much.

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