Case Studies

 

The Right Care at The Right Time Massachusetts General Saves Lives and Improves Outcomes with Video

Saving on Healthcare Costs Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Saves $163,000 in Travel

Professional Development NYU Department of Pediatrics residents balance patient care & academics

Videoconferencing | Telepresence

Healthcare institutions take advantage of video conferencing and telemedicine to improve the quality of patient care, reduce costs, and facilitate continuing medical education. Learn how they applied video conferencing, and the results achieved.

Telemedicine

Telepresence breaks down distance barriers and facilitates communication between patients, practitioners, specialists, and healthcare administrators utilizing collaborative standards based voice and video solutions.

• Live video collaboration between community health centers, hospitals, primary care physicians, specialists and patients supports the Medical Home model
• Physicians can provide their expertise from home or anywhere to deliver specialty services
• Correctional Tele-health helps avoid costly, unnecessary and risky transports to hospital
• Specialists control the far end camera for better examinations

Improving Patient Care

Using mobile solutions, you can improve patient care, help nurses be more efficient, better utilize the operating room, locate crash carts more effectively, and support a safer hospital environment.. Wireless telephone systems give healthcare staff mobility, allowing them to perform their job more effectively and from anywhere within the facility. Hospital workers have immediate access to each other, and to their patients. Wireless telephone systems can integrate with any messaging system eliminating the need for separate radio pagers for healthcare staff. Some integration examples include:

• Nurse call
• Real Time Location Systems (RTLS)
• Telemetry
• Patient monitoring

Medical Education

Whether knowledge transfer takes place at the bedside, in the operating room, in the classroom, or at a remote site, video and audio conferencing technology brings the classroom to you. Desktop solutions enable healthcare professionals to use their PCs and video conferencing for high definition video calls with colleagues from anywhere. The physician or practitioner can easily control the far-end camera, share content live over video.

• Attend video CME events from your home office or desktop
• Conduct video grand rounds sharing PC content, live patient encounters, or recorded procedures
• Video connect to nursing schools for up to date training and medical information
• Conduct administrative training and medical education using live or streaming video
• Attend or deliver disaster preparedness training over your collaborative voice and video network
   

Healthcare Administration

Telepresence solutions provide improved communications and collaboration for better decision-making, efficiency, cost-savings and productivity. Desktop solutions enable healthcare professionals to connect with colleagues for visually enabled collaboration from anywhere. The healthcare professional can collaborate visually for more productive meetings and better project management.

• More effective planning and administrative meetings with point-and-click sharing of content
• Connect visually for board meetings avoiding unnecessary travel expenses
• Collaborate on marketing and sales initiatives more effectively
• Support Human Resources