
Healthcare
DEFINITY ECS offers an easy way to help the healthcare industry:
■INTUITY CONVERSANT enables a health information hotline, which is an audio library of health tips and procedures. This allows patients to help themselves. It can separate calls into groups of those who need care immediately, those who need to be scheduled with a physician, and those who simply need basic information, such as the remedy for a bee sting.
■DEFINITY AUDIX allows callers to leave
■INTUITY CONVERSANT allows healthcare facilities to provide physician referrals, schedule appointments on the spot, or to provide basic health information via voice or fax.
Lucent Technologies products help healthcare facilities to provide
Improve Accessibility to Specialists
Medical professionals often need to contact specialists in a particular field, but are restricted because of time, distance, and expense. They provide better med- ical care by:
■Consulting with experts, sometimes during surgery
■Overcoming boundaries of distance — by consulting with any physician, no matter where they are located
Lucent Technologies provides healthcare with the ability to send video from a remote site to specialists, without waiting for postal delays. Group Video and Desktop Conferencing systems provide the following benefits:
■Extend expertise
■Improve patient care
■Foster collaboration
■Teach new skills
■Save travel time and expense
Using a video camera, physicians can transmit
Physicians can also use the video systems regularly for rapid exchange of images between research teams and colleagues. Patients in rural areas can be screened, and video can be examined across a long distance, all during the time of an office visit at the remote setting.
Issue 5 January 1998 |