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Healthcare Clients
Healthcare institutions around the world are taking advantage of videoconferencing and telemedicine in order to improve the quality of patient care, reduce costs, and facilitate continuing medical education.
Tasked with supporting health services to an area the size of Western Europe, Capital Health found an answer to their challenges in a TANDBERG visual communication solution – connecting health professionals with the people who need their services across Alberta, and even around the world.
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University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Videoconferencing technology helps the Arizona Telemedicine Program deliver health care and education services statewide. "T-Health is an ambitious initiative. The TANDBERG component is absolutely critical to its success. We use TANDBERG videoconferencing equipment every day to manage the entire project as well," says Dr. Ronald S. Weinstein, Director, Arizona Telemedicine Program.
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UC Davis Children's Hospital uses videoconferencing to provide immediate specialty care to critically ill children who have no access to pediatric emergency and critical care doctors. "We've been able to connect and see children in ERs where, unequivocally, a picture is worth a thousand words. We've been able to consult at a distance and even offer diagnoses in child abuse cases. We've been called up in ERs, as well as ICUs," says Dr. James Marcin.
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Video Communication Brings a Sense of Purpose to Children with Long-Term Illnesses. At Upstate Medical University, Pediatrics Education Specialist Nan Songer was concerned
about the children in the institution's Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders — in particular, the mounting feelings of isolation from classmates and the normalcy of school attendance among long-term patients who were unable to attend school. In 2003, she approached the University's Telemedicine Program Manager, Jo Ann Shupe to search for potential solutions.
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Western Oklahoma State College (WOSC) addresses the critical shortage of qualified nursing staff by partnering with local hospitals to provide a distance training program for nursing students using TANDBERG visual communications, making training more accessible to local nursing candidates.
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To meet increased demand for specialist skills, as well as improving healthcare and achieving cost savings, hospitals in Sweden need to standardize working practices and collaborate more closely. To help achieve this, the use of videoconferencing is growing within the healthcare sector, allowing faster and more effective diagnosis and treatments.
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Clinical Communications addresses the shortage of speech and specialty therapists by implementing a delivery model using video communications. For the first time, cost-effective access to specialist therapists, those who are bilingual or those who deal with autistic children, is possible.
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Deaf Link provides the Deaf and those hard of hearing that rely on American Sign Language (ASL) with the ability to carry on their business and personal lives with confidence. Deaf Link turned to TANDBERG to help them efficiently and effectively expand their service. Their vision is to compliment onsite interpretation currently being utilized for the Deaf community with a reliable and easy to use technology based alternative. Today, Deaf Link uses their TANDBERG solution to facilitate accurate and cost effective communication between Deaf customers/patients/employees, a certified ASL interpreter and the business/government agency/healthcare facility.
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PDS inc. turned to TANDBERG visual communication to help them efficiently and effectively enhance their service. The vision was to implement a videoconferencing solution to simulate natural communication, for comfortable, face-to-face consultations for patients and medical staff at partner clinics with sleep specialist physicians.Of all the vendors considered, PDS chose TANDBERG as it provided not only the most advanced, user friendly solution but one that was scalable, reliable and secure.
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Holy Name Hospital personnel are using TANDBERG videoconferencing for immediate access to interpretation services. Patients do not have to wait for an interpreter to arrive to receive care, and they never have to rely on family members who may not be trained in medical terminology or able to handle the stress of an emergency situation.
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New York University (NYU) Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics uses TANDBERG visual communications to sustain highest-quality patient care, improve use of instructors' time, increase attendance rates and attract highest-ranked resident candidates.
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Rikshospitalet University Hospital is Norway's main teaching hospital and the hub of its medical referral network. Doctors and students come here from around the country for training and research. Patients come for special treatment. Increasingly, however, the hospital's resources are available to people who cannot come to the Norwegian capital. Far-flung doctors, students and patients can often get what they need through Rikshospitalet's high-bandwidth TANDBERG video communication systems.
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Across Europe, the cost of caring for the elderly is projected to rise sharply as the post-World War II baby-boom generation grows old. Norway is betting on video communication to help control the cost of helping its elderly. In the southern Norwegian city of Sandefjord, a broadband communication network now links all municipal facilities and is being expanded into private neighborhoods at public expense.
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The Health Care Interpreter Network (HCIN) is a collaborative of California hospitals sharing a Video/Voice Call Center system routing requests for interpreter services among participating hospitals. The system, on-line among 3 hospitals in February, 2006 is now routinely routing thousands of calls per month to trained healthcare interpreters located at these hospitals and to contracted service providers when they are not available "in-house" or "in-network".
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Now, with the power of TANDBERG videoconferencing, patients with minor conditions can visit Health-e-Station for after-hours and weekend diagnosis and care. With coffee shop charm and information-filled shelves lining the walls, patients are greeted, vitals and general information are taken and within minutes, patients are seated face-to-face with an onscreen physician in a real-time videoconference.
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TRS employs a powerful TANDBERG Director video communication system. This
stand-alone unit serves as a rich presentation tool for groups that gather in person at TRS for training and discussion. But the TANDBERG Director's main job is to link the center with other sites in a seamless convergence of people and peripheral devices such as laptop computers, DVD players and medical imaging equipment.
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Aleris Hospital, Oslo, uses TANDBERG video communications to educate and communicate in real-time with surgeons and nurses in Norway. TANDBERG technology is an integrated solution with Karl Storz surgery equipment.
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In recent years video communication has had a profound effect on health care, from medical education to remote diagnostics. Now a major Swedish hospital has discovered an important new use for video communication: speech and language therapy. With its embrace of video communication, University Hospital has gained renown as a technological pioneer in medical administration and care.
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By joining forces, Cisco Systems and TANDBERG have helped the UK's National Health
Service (NHS) improve patient care and cut costs by enhancing the way doctors, nurses and administrators communicate.
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GRHANet implemented a TANDBERG IP-based visual communication solution, leveraging
the GRHANet Cisco IP infrastructure. The converged solution provides voice, video
and data communications solution for the desktop and office that allow real-time
person-to-person video sessions to be added transparently as easy as a telephone call.
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In the world's largest country, all roads lead to Moscow. It is the administrative, cultural
and economic hub of Russia. It's also the health care hub, with 15 major medical
centers serving Russia and the former Soviet republics by way of video communication.
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Located in the hills of central Norway, overlooking a scenic inland fjord, Hallingdal
Sjukestugu is one big little hospital -- and a model of how to bring big-city medical care
to remote areas.
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Alameda County in Northern California ranks among the nation's top five most
culturally and socio-economically diverse — and within the county's boundaries,
there are many that have limited proficiency in English. To meet the language
interpretation needs of this growing and diverse population in a clinical setting, the
Alameda County Medical Center, (ACMC), which consists of two hospital facilities, a
psychiatric facility and three community-based clinics, is leading the nation with an
innovative video-based solution for interpretive services.
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After a stroke, every minute counts. That is why 10 French hospitals have installed a
TANDBERG-based videoconferencing network that links their emergency rooms to the
prestigious Bichat Stroke Center at Bichat Hospital in Paris. With better, faster
treatment, stroke victims are far less likely to die or suffer permanent impairment.
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When pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca decides to develop a new drug, it commits
hundreds of scientists, doctors and other professionals around the world for a decade
or more. To incorporate everyone's best work while maintaining a strict timeline, the
company has a global communications strategy. At its heart is TANDBERG
videoconferencing.
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Patients from throughout the Middle East travel to Emirates Hospital in busy Dubai for
treatment in more than a dozen medical specialties, from plastic surgery to pediatrics.
The hospital's forte is providing same-day surgery in a pleasant, residence-like setting
just a short walk from the blue waters of the Arabian Gulf.
Emirates Hospital is also a regional pioneer in telemedicine. The hospital
uses advanced visual communication systems from TANDBERG to link patients and
doctors in Dubai with specialists at affiliated medical centers across the Middle East,
North America and Europe.
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The city of Eindhoven in The Netherlands is barely above sea level. But the view from
Catharina Hospital is excellent. Catharina has long been a prestigious center of medical treatment and learning. By investing in visual communications, the Dutch medical center is now
heightening its national profile and giving its physicians a diagnostic view of patients
never before possible.
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Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kapiolani's Fetal Diagnostic Center is the only tertiary-level hospital for women and children in the Pacific Basin. Unfortunately, the large coverage area, the distance between the islands, and the limited number of specialist medical personnel has made it difficult to provide immediate access to the extremely specialized care these patients need. To meet these needs, the center deployed the first tele-ultrasound network in Hawaii.
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Mediel AB, which installs and maintains complete radiological systems for hospitals,
has spread its 30 employees across five Swedish cities. Thanks in part to TANDBERG
video communication equipment, these far-flung engineers, sales people and
managers operate as a close-knit team.
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