FONEMED
Kelly Power-Kean is a seasoned Nurse Practitioner with a diverse professional background, currently serving at TELUS Health since April 2022 and at FONEMED since March 2020. In addition to these roles, Kelly contributes as an author for Elsevier for Health and has been part of Central Health NL as a Nurse Practitioner since February 2010. With a robust teaching history, Kelly was a Nurse Educator at the Centre for Nursing Studies until January 2022, after holding various nursing positions at Eastern Health from 1991 to 2008. Educational qualifications include a Master of Health Studies from Athabasca University, a Nurse Practitioner certification from the Centre for Nursing Studies, and a Bachelor of Nursing from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
FONEMED
Fonemed was founded in 1996 by a group of physicians, philanthropists and businesspeople who recognized the need for improved healthcare worldwide and saw telephone-based triage as the premier method to provide that care. We are a privately held, Limited Liability Company registered in the USA and Canada, with corporate headquarters in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, and in Ventura, California. Currently we employ approximately 300 individuals. Fonemed provides healthcare-based services and software solutions to increase our clients’ patients access to quality healthcare while also providing additional cost control to our clients. Our specialty service has been 24/7 virtual nurse triage. We recently expanded services to include access to nurse practitioners providing additional primary care advice and treatment. Our nurses are located throughout the United States and Canada, and we are exploring growth opportunities in Europe and Asia. The Fonemed Health Management Platform is a Cloud-based application that provides access and security and comes fully integrated with the Schmitt-Thompson Clinical Content Triage Guidelines. The Platform allows our clients to deliver comprehensive, technology-powered, people-driven customized solutions to meet specific requirements. Through our software, clients have the ability to manage such activities as client registration, online health assessment, nurse triage and nurse practitioner assessment and referrals. At Fonemed, we empower our clients to strategically expand patient engagement, diversify revenue streams or reduce operating costs through proven technology that has been developed through the foundation of over 26 years of industry experience and more than 10 years of using and enhancing the Platform ourselves. We are URAC accredited, SOC2 certified, and HIPAA compliant with over 2,500 client groups, representing well over 25 million individuals.