Dear 8x8,

We have owned the ViaTV product for two weeks. When it arrived, I couldn't wait to test it. While I was setting it up in an empty patient room, a nurse wanted to know what "new toy" I had. I explained the basic concept to her. She told me about a patient whose husband had died and who would be unable to go to the funeral. What could we do to help her patient?

On Thursday, I visited with the pastor of Elim Lutheran Church. We brought a telephone line into the church and set up the ViaTV. At the same time set up a ViaTV phone in the patient's room. We talked camera angle and wired in a speaker phone. Cecil B. DeMille would have been proud of our efforts.

At 10:30 a.m. the next morning the Pastor dialed the patient's room and she was able to attend her husband's funeral from her bed at the hospital. It proved to be a great test of your product's flexibility. On the following weekend we used ViaTV for a Wedding. The bride's mother was hospitalized and unable to attend the ceremony.

We anticipate using your product for telepsyche visits to nursing homes, wound management services to nursing homes/diabetic clinics, remote access by athletic trainers to orthopaedic consults, dietary consults to other clinic and institutions and home care/public health applications.

The positive feedback from the wedding and funeral have made it easier for our doctors and other healthcare providers to consider telemedicine applications.

Sincerely,

John M. Cahill
Mkt/Public Relations
Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center
Marshalltown, Iowa