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In 2020, we launched The Healthcare Hive Powered by The Virtual Specialist as a online resource to learn, share and collaborate with like-minded individuals in the digital healthcare and innovation industry. Visit www.HealthcareHive.com to join our online community.

Dedicated to transforming healthcare through instant visual collaboration between doctors, nurses, patients, payers, and educators anytime, anywhere, over any device, in 2015, I launched The Castleton Group (TCG) as the Co-Founder and CEO. As of 2019, I remain as a founding partner and advisor.TCG is comprised of an illustrious team of multi-skilled Healthcare and Information Technology professionals focused on transforming healthcare. TCG's solutions unify managed care teams, expand telehealth and telemedicine, deliver behavioral and wellness coaching, streamline access to second opinions, educate patients, nurses, physicians, and build eHealth ecosystem networks. The Castleton Group, LLC to offer healthcare stakeholders a single-point-of-contact for planning, designing and implementing visual collaboration and data sharing solutions to care everywhere and reverse, not just bend, the cost curve.

Early advisor to Eric Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom to introduce their breakthrough technology to the Healthcare market for Visual Collaboration and Virtual Care.

One of healthcare’s biggest problems is inefficient communication and sharing of actionable information at the time and point of need. VCI is dedicated to improving healthcare through instant visual collaboration between doctors, nurses, patients, payers and educators anytime, anywhere, over any device. Whether managing care teams, expanding telemedicine, delivering behavioral and wellness coaching, accessing second opinions, educating patients, nurses and physicians or establishing an eHealth network. VCI is where innovators share best practices, lessons learned, experiences and information for improving healthcare outcomes and lowering costs.

Respopnsible for marketing, advertising, public relations, strategic alliances and business development.Astound Technologies is a Microsoft Certified Partner based in Walnut Creek, CA. with thirty plus years experience in videoconferencing, video collaboration and computer telephony integration. Specializing in communication software Astound’s solutions integrate communication systems like PBXs, IVRs, ACDs, Voicemail with databases to optimize enterprise call center operations. An example is linking caller ID and account information with a customer’s incoming call to eliminate the delays and frustration of them repeating their name and account information each time they are transferred. It’s called computer telephony integration (CTI). In 2006 we reasoned that the principals used in telephone switching and CTI could be applied to video calls―essentially adding vision to voice. That led to the development of the Astound GPower Automatic Video Call Distributor (AVCD) a software video switch that routes video collaboration calls between PCs so specialists can appear where they’re needed― virtually. Realizing the shortage of specialists in every industry we chose to focus on healthcare believing that nowhere is the need to see who you’re talking to and what you’re talking about more acute.

IMA specializes in designing interactive applications to streamline communication and interaction over distance. IMA developed a video communication software solution to route and connect telemedicine calls from the point-of-care to the right medical specialist wherever they may be on LAN/WAN or Internet. Named the Virtual Specialist™ it promises to be the linchpin for creating local, regional and national telemedicine health networks. More about IMAIMA implemented the Virtual Business Terminal for banking and the Virtual Concierge for hospitality in the mid 90s.IIMA functions as a single point of contact helping companies identify applications for interactive multimedia communications and implementing designed solutions. Specialties in technology to improve the flow of communication and enabling people to work together over distance, identifying virtual presence applications in vertical markets, rapid prototyping of solutions, content production, editing and multi-touch screen interface design.

Designed interactive voice processing systems (i.e. voicemail and interactive voice response).

The company engaged in the sale of telephone system products such as: call accounting systems, call sequencers, ACDs, PBXs access systems, and call diverters (forerunner to call forwarding). Serviced over 1500 Texas businesses. Established the first retail phone centers in the Southwest. Company was sold to InterTel of Phoenix, AZ (NASDAQ)