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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC), the nation's fastest growing private telemedicine company, announced today that they have partnered with the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) to increase awareness of SOC's services to member hospitals.

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SOC provides access to specialty physician consultations to hospitals via telemedical link, and in 2008 provided more than 4,000 consultations for hospitals in six states, and is rapidly expanding its geographic coverage. SOC's on-call services have proven to solve the worsening problem of too few on-call specialist physicians - a problem that is expanding to affect urban and suburban hospitals, including many hospitals in California. The endorsement of HASC will speed awareness of SOC's services to California hospitals, a new market for the company.

Dr. Joe Peterson, the CEO of SOC commented, "We are very pleased to support the HASC mission of bringing valuable resources to hospitals and thereby the communities they serve. Our model brings high-impact specialist care to patients and hospitals that otherwise would likely do without, and today that means a lot of suburban and urban hospitals - this is no longer just a rural problem. We offer a solution that benefits all members of the care delivery system; patients get needed specialist input into their care, our programs materially benefit our hospital clients, and throughout we are relieving on-call burdens from busy local specialists whose practices are under greater pressure every year."

In 2008, SOC delivered emergency neurology consultations to more than 4,000 patients, many of whom were suffering from severe and acute strokes. By maintaining a roster of affiliated neurologists speciali
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