Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild's bio:

Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild is a nurse, healthcare administrator and national expert in telehealth, telemedicine and telenursing. She is Founder, President & CEO of iTelehealth Inc.(www.itelehealthinc.com ), providing telehealth expertise in home settings & disease management. She was Clinical Director and COO of Strategic Monitored Services, Inc. a Disease Management company using home telehealth technology to deliver care to high cost, chronically ill patients. Dr. Schlachta-Fairchild served as Clinical Director of Telemedicine for the Department of Defense Telemedicine Testbed at Fort Gordon, Georgia, providing clinical consultation and project management for multi-state telemedicine applications. She was Principal Investigator & Project Director for the U.S. Army for Electronic Housecall, a new home telemedicine system technology development research project. She was Principal Investigator for The 2000 U.S. Telenursing Role Study, and the 2004 International Telenursing Survey, both web-based studies of nurses’ roles in telemedicine. Dr Schlachta-Fairchild was Principal Investigator of “Intermediary-Based Suicide Prevention Website, an SBIR contact with National Institutes of Health/NIMH. Dr. Schlachta-Fairchild serves as Associate Faculty, University of Maryland. Her BSN is from University of Maryland; Master’s in Healthcare Administration from Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, and Ph.D. from Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia. Dr. Schlachta-Fairchild is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member Association of Telehealth Service Providers. She is both a member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and CoFounder of the Telenursing Special Interest Group of the ATA.

Disclosure; Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild, PhD, RN, FACHE is the owner and holds stock in iTelehealth, Inc., she is also a consultant for AFrame Digital, Inc.