One of the outstanding features of the Medical Missions for Children organization is the Telemedicine Outreach Program, (TOP.) The main mission of TOP is to help children who are seriously ill, who are having trouble getting a correct diagnosis. Without an accurate assessment of what is wrong, it is impossible to embark on the right course of treatment, and even worse, incorrect treatment could cause even more damage. Unfortunately, as much as one third of diagnoses in the developing world have been shown to be incorrect. MMC and TOP hope to correct this problem through telemedicine.
Since there is a severe shortage of expert medical care in many underserved communities around the world, the mission of TOP is to supply the expertise of physicians who are located in the developed world to people in communities without access to this high level of medical care. This is achieved via hi-tech telecommunications technology.
TOP and MMC presently runs a network of 27 level-one mentoring hospitals in the U.S. and Europe participating in TOP. Because TOP enjoys a partnership with the World Bank, TOP has a presence in over 100 countries all over the globe.
