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.
Deaf Link, Inc.
Video conferencing facilitates accurate, cost-effective communication between the deaf, a certified sign language interpreter and businesses, government agencies, and healthcare facilities with high satisfaction.
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Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems
Patients in rural areas now access critical care specialists with a telemedicine program and save $163,000 in travel costs. Medical teams treat patients quicker and also reduce travel time and expense.
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Himalayan Climbing Expedition
A doctor in Norway was the physician for a Himalayan climbing expedition. Instead of accompanying the team, from Norway the doctor used TANDBERG’s Tactical II tele-medicine video conferencing solution to monitor and treat the climbers.
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Holy Name Hospital
Video interpreter and translation services bring a new dimension to the diagnostic experience, dramatically improving treatment regardless of patients’ ability to communicate. More than 80 percent per incident can be saved by connecting to an interpreter only when needed.
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Kapi'olani Medical Center
Kapiolani's Fetal Diagnostic Center is the only tertiary-level hospital for women and children in the Pacific Basin. The large coverage area and limited number of experts made it difficult to provide access to specialized care. To meet these needs, the center deployed the first tele-ultrasound network in Hawaii.
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Mediel AB
Video communication is crucial to this Swedish installer of hospital radiological systems. Distant teams are brought together instantly on business and technical issues and through body language they can see if they understand each other.
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Mid-Shore Mental Health Systems
The Maryland Telepsychiatry Program is providing patients in rural communities with timely access to qualified mental health professionals, reducing long wait times and expediting assessment and treatment.
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Odense University Hospital
Immediate access to Arab, Turkish, Tamil and Chinese interpreters was the goal of a 3-month pilot project at two hospitals in Denmark. Results of video conference interpretation included quick and accurate diagnosis and treatment, high levels of user satisfaction among patients, interpreters, and staff, and full regional implementation.
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Omnia Hospital
Omnia Hospital uses TANDBERG systems in operating auditoriums so students and colleagues in other locations can see new techniques, and record and them for later viewing.
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Scottish Centre for Telehealth
Hear from specialists based at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary how visual communication has revolutionized their practice, including sharing clinical skills with patients and colleagues and treating patients in remote locations.
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TTL - Työterveyslaitos
A restructure at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health brought the need to reduce travel while maintaining collaboration and communication. After implementation, results included weekly video meetings instead of quarterly travel, better work-life balance, and ease of use with 95 percent of employees booking conferences themselves.
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UC Davis Children's Hospital
The pediatric telemedicine program allows children admitted to ICUs in rural and remote areas to be seen by medical professionals at UC Davis without the 150+ mile trip to Sacramento, which costs $8,000 to $12,000 by helicopter or plane.
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Upstate Medical University
Prolonged absence from school for cancer treatment can affect children’s education, social, and emotional welfare. The “Staying Connected is Good Medicine” program provides real-time connections to patients’ classrooms using video communication.
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