MCLEAN, Va., May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ViTel Net, a leading clinician-based telemedicine company that provides a broad range of standard and configurable telehealth technologies enabling clinicians to remotely diagnose, treat, manage, and monitor healthcare interventions across the telehealth continuum of care, has announced that Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP is the company's new Chair of the Board of Directors.

"We are pleased that Dr. Tuckson has decided to accept our offer to become Chairman of the Board of Directors of our Company," said Allen Izadpanah, ViTel Net's President and CEO. "Dr. Tuckson has long served as a member of our Advisory Committee and, as such, is intimately familiar with our strategic direction and core competencies. His confidence in our Company, and his distinguished record of leadership across the healthcare industry, will significantly augment ViTel Net's ability to provide telehealth solutions that will result in improved access, better quality, more cost-effective and enhanced patient satisfaction with their healthcare."

"I am excited to serve as the Chair of the Board of Directors of ViTel Net because it has distinguished and differentiated itself in the marketplace through its unique software development platform and open architecture design, which enable ViTel Net to rapidly create and deploy customer-specific technology solutions that cover the entire telehealth continuum of care," Tuckson explained. "I am particularly impressed by their cloud-based imaging and capacity to integrate with the full range of electronic health information technologies to deliver telehealth solutions that support each customer's specific clinical workflow and business requirements. ViTel Net is creating a stellar Board of Directors who will assist management in realizing an industry leading telehealth company."
Dr. Tuckson is Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections, LLC, a health and medical care consulting business that brings people and ideas together to promote optimal health outcomes and value through innovation and integration across the fields of prevention; public health; consumer activation; quality care delivery; the translation of science and technology into value producing interventions; and optimization of big data and analytics.

Previously, he enjoyed a long tenure as Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs for UnitedHealth Group; Senior Vice President for Professional Standards of the AMA; Senior Vice President of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; President of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; and Commissioner of Public Health for the District of Columbia.

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