Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TV Worldwide, (www.tvworldwide.com), since 1999,
a pioneering web-based global TV network, announced that it had
been selected by Kanter Health and the Joseph H. Kanter
Family Foundation (KFF, www.KanterHealth.org) to host,
produce and launch Kanter Health TV,(www.KanterHealth.TV), a
private-label, community-based Internet TV channel. Kanter Health
TV will support the mission of the Foundation to effectuate a
health system that can leverage the power of Health Information
Technology (HIT), aggregating and querying anonymous data from
millions of Electronic health Records (EHRs), so that we can learn
from the collective experiences of millions of patients, to empower
all of us to make better, more informed health decisions.
The Internet TV channel concept for Kanter Health evolved as one of
the outcomes from of a two-day Learning Health System (LHS) Summit
on May 17 and 18, 2012 where over 80 prominent individuals
representing organizations and stakeholders across the health care
and health IT communities gathered at The National Press Club in
Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Kanter Health.
Participants worked together to begin laying key foundational
elements that promise to harmonize and coalesce cutting-edge work
presently underway into a national-scale LHS. The Kanter Health TV
channel will create and distribute live, interactive and on-demand
programming to highlight and inform about this process while
galvanizing several important target demographic audiences to
become engaged in the important mission of the Foundation. Initial
channel programming includes content from the Learning Health
Summit, in addition to newscasts, programming and other outreach
content relating to the activities of the Foundation.
"We are pleased to work with a renowned new media leader like TV
Worldwide to launch the Internet TV component of Kanter Health with
the Kanter Health TV Channel," stated Joe Kanter, KFF Chairman. "If
we're going to be successful in creating the health system we
envision to leverage the power of Health Information Technology and
anonymously-provided Electronic Health Records, we're going to need
to innovate and execute at every level in our communications
strategy. Kanter Health TV, on the TV Worldwide Network of Internet
TV Channels, is a vital component of that strategy."
"We're pleased to have been selected to deploy our TV Worldwide
Internet TV network to support Kanter Health TV and the important
mission of Kanter Health and the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation
and we salute Joe Kanter and his team for being out front on this
issue," stated Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TV Worldwide. "We've
already received inquiries nationally regarding our upcoming
programming for this channel from health thought leaders in
government, academia, the medical community in addition to citizens
concerned about healthcare, and we're provisioning our servers to
meet the audience demand for this new channel."
Kanter Health TV launched on November 20, 2012 and is planning
several important programming announcements through January of
2013.
About Kanter Health | The Joseph H. Kanter
Family Foundation (KFF)
Kanter Health | The Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation (KFF), is
a nonprofit patient activist organization founded by Mr. Kanter,
aims to effectuate a health system that leverages the power of
health information technology (HIT) and electronic health records
(EHRs) to learn from real-world patient experiences by putting
patients at its center. KFF envisions a health system in which EHRs
enable us to capture patients' experiences over time with the
health system. In this vision, it will ultimately be possible to
aggregate and query anonymous data from millions of EHRs so that we
can learn from the collective experiences of millions of patients,
to empower all of us to make better, more informed health
decisions. The research derived from this data will not replace
clinicians' medical expertise derived from years of training and
experience, nor will it replace findings from randomized clinical
trial studies or any other resource available to patients today.
Rather, it will serve as a complement; one more tool that will
enable medical researchers to conduct research in novel ways on
real-world datasets of unprecedented scale, and that will empower
patients and their clinicians to collaboratively make better
informed personalized medical decisions based on real-world data
regarding "what works best" for specific patients and diseases.
Patients will ultimately be able to ask which treatments worked
best for patients like them in the real world, and utilize this
outcomes information to make better informed health decisions.
Simply as a byproduct of delivering care, this learning/teaching
health system will be able to learn from patients, for the ultimate
benefit of patients.
About TV Worldwide
Founded in 1999, TV Worldwide (www.TVworldwide.com) developed the first Internet
TV network of community-based Internet TV channels, primarily
targeting niche professional communities ranging from the Maritime
industry to the Digital Media sector. Known by many in the industry
as "Intelligent Internet TV," Fortune 500 companies, 35 government
agencies, and numerous International associations, including the
National Association of Broadcasters, utilize TV Worldwide's live
and archived state-of-the art video streaming content applications
and Internet TV channels. In recognition of the company's unique
achievements in new media, TV Worldwide was selected by the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) to webcast
past Daytime Emmy Awards and the Emmy awards for Technology and
Engineering. CEO Dave Gardy has been honored by Streaming Media
Magazine in 2008 as one of the 25 Most Influential People in
Streaming Media. Mr. Gardy has served as the President of the
International Webcasting Association (IWA).