LIFELINKS:At Home In the Hospital. LifeLinks installs innovative new internet based,interpreting system providing sign language and many other languages to the patient's bedside.

A little company with revolutionary technology is causing a stir in the healthcare and communications industries and the hospitals are gobbling it up. LifeLinks LLC provides and enables interpreting services and sign language interpreting at the bedside in a live, interactive videoconference between the patient and the interpreter while also offering the hospitals a source of revenue and a replacement for the "clunky" TV hanging from the ceiling.

(PRWEB) September 9, 2003 -

way interactive viewing of a distant interpreter, relative,physician,classroom, church service, wedding,etc.Hospitals are switching from plain old TV to bedside,touch-screen 15 inch monitors, which not only are provided at no cost to them, but also provide a source of revenue.

In addition, the interpreting and sign-language services reduce lawsuits, patient complaints of not understanding procedures and forms,and enhance compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (equality for disabled persons) and JCAHO guidelines for language accomodation.

Each person has his/her own private flat panel monitor, which also provides filtered internet access and movies via cable.Nurses can view the patient and the patient can see the nurse when the call button is pressed, providing extra security and enhanced nurse retention and efficiency. No other company provides this broad range of services with no financial obligation on the part of the hospital.

LifeLinks has offices in Newark and Hackensack, New Jersey as well as New York City.LifeLinks exclusively uses the managed internet backbone of IDT Corporation, to which it attributes its superior quality.

Media contact: Eliane Uscher Associates

            718-543-4100 or 888-465-HEAL

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