RHUB Communications’ Web Conferencing and Remote Support Appliances Helps Children’s Health Fund Deliver Better Pediatric Care

RHUB Communications, Inc., the leader in web conferencing and remote support appliance technology, today announced that the Children’s Health Fund (CHF), a charitable foundation co-founded by singer Paul Simon and Dr. Irwin Redlener that helps provide comprehensive healthcare to the nation’s most medically underserved children through innovative primary care medical programs, uses RHUB Communications’ TurboMeeting product for web conferencing and remote support capabilities. CHF uses TurboMeeting to provide a reliable and cost-effective tool to help the CHF staff communicate remotely between its national network of pediatric programs in some of the nation's most disadvantaged rural and urban communities.

“Every penny spent on administrative costs takes resources away from caring for a child,” said Dr. Jeb Weisman, CIO at Children’s Health Fund, “CHF’s investment in RHUB’s TurboMeeting has also allowed our small support organization to function as if it is two to three times the size. It allows us to bypass the recurring expenses required by on-line web conferencing services because we own the device.”

Since 1988 the CHF has been delivering a full mobile electronic health record system, which strongly impacts a child’s health. The CHF supports 23 programs in 18 states and the District of Columbia and a fleet of 50 mobile clinics serving thousands of children each year. The cost and staff requirements to maintain, support and train the users through onsite visits would have been staggering. As a cost-savings measure, CHF turned to web conferencing and remote support.

CHF needed a better way to control the services, predict the costs, deliver services with flexibility, reliability, and not be dependent on others for what it needed to accomplish.

With TurboMeeting, high quality graphics and a quick refresh speed, the web conferencing has made the RHUB appliance a key tool for the CHF annual meeting. The web conferencing is also used for educational sessions, to help medical teams collaborate on new research from remote locations, national collaborations, and train staff on new tools to track asthma rates, specialist referrals, and other health-related needs for the children it serves.

For more information about the CHF and the programs it supports, visit http://www.childrenshealthfund.org/.

About RHUB Communications

RHUB Communications is a premier provider of real-time collaboration appliances for the enterprise, which include on-premise web conferencing, video conferencing, audio conferencing, remote support and remote access. The technology is based on the company’s TurboMeeting software that meets the needs of any size organization. RHUB has more than a million end users in a variety of market segments including services, manufacturing, and government. RHUB is privately-owned and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. For more information, visit www.rhubcom.com.