Industry Applications
Desktop conferencing systems can be used in patients’ homes by home health nurses to confer with physicians about patient conditions. This enables more patients to be cared for outside the hospital, and reduces the need for the very ill to travel to the hospital or physician’s office.
Maintain Skills and Collaborative Relationships
Regardless of Location
In the Healthcare industry, there is an urgent need for multiple sites to operate as one and for medical professionals to collaborate remotely, so they can provide top quality health care to patients in rural areas. Doctors and nurses must also stay abreast of technological innovations in the field and continue their educa- tions.
DEFINITY ECS can play a critical role in connecting remote and sparsely popu- lated communities with the advanced centers in healthcare. This technology enables the same level of sophistication in the rural settings as that available in the urban medical centers by:
■Improving communications
■Improving staff satisfaction
■Increasing personnel skills
■Providing improved patient care
■Reducing time and expense of travel
The Lucent Technologies desktop conferencing System can help with:
■Continuing medical education.
Doctors can learn at their desktops, without having to pay for expensive travel bills and time away from their office and home.
Medical students can be educated at remote sites. Distance learning can help medical students assigned to rural clinics learn from doctors in hub hospitals and medical centers.
■Virtual consultation.
Patients can talk to physicians, and primary care providers can talk to specialists using Group Video or Desktop Conferencing Systems. Instead of bringing patients in outlying areas to the hub hospital, doctors can conduct virtual meetings with the ability to share charts and images from electrocardiograms, magnetic resonance imaging, cardiotomagraphy scans, bone density scans, and other visual diagnostic tools by using the document camera or other medical peripherals. (Note: this should be used for consultation only; it should not be considered diagnostic by itself.)
