ABOUT TVRC
TVR Communications is the largest provider of interactive patient education and entertainment products and services in the United States. In 2008, TVRC systems and our 400 employees will deliver education, entertainment and communication services to over 6 million patients at 350 healthcare locations.
History of Innovation:
Since the founding of the company in 1950, TVRC had been a leader in developing and delivering patient education, entertainment and communication services.
1958 - installed televisions in hospitals for patient use
1970 - installed color televisions in hospitals
1981 - installed the first self activating patient television system
1982 - installed an integrated patient content scheduling solution that displayed images in addition to text
1996 - delivered an authoring tool that allowed hospital staff to create patient satisfaction surveys and patient education quizzes
1996 - installed the first interactive television system at a hospital
1999 - developed and installed a web browser that automatically adapted web content to different television displays
2001 - installed first healthcare grade flat-panel LCD TV in a hospital
2002 - delivered online prescriptive education content ordered by hospital staff and viewed at the patient bed
2005 - deployed an automated wide area network management solution for hospital patient services
2007 - deployed the first true HDTV solution (TV, content and distribution) in America
Management Team
- Keith Washington - President & CEO
- Paul Behler - Vice President of Broadband Engineering & Interactive Technologies
- Pat Barilla - Vice President of Operations
- Mark Cortina - Vice President of Product Development
- Samir Batra - Director of Business Development & Strategy & National Practice Leader for Patient Services
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How Can We Help?
TVRC’s Process Advisory Services® (PAS), assists hospitals in fully utilizing interactive patient services technologies and applications.
Dedicated to helping hospitals achieve the goals of improving the patient care experience and improving operating efficiencies, PAS offers diagnostic, advisory and best practice implementation of processes that complement the investment in a TVR Communications solution.
"PAS gave us the unique ability to meet our patient education strategy goals."
Director of Patient Education, Midwest Hospital