This News Summary covers the week ending 18 June 2007 and is published on Wednesday 20 June 2007. We start with seven interesting user application stories: Vodafone has cut its travel bill by 20% thanks to the introduction of a unified travel policy for staff in 17 countries and requiring that the alternative of using videoconferencing is considered before travel is approved (TANDBERG); Green Bay Fire Department is training firefighters and paramedics using videoconferencing systems (Polycom); an Israeli law firm video meets with overseas clients (Aethra). Wachovia Corporation, the fourth-largest bank in the United States, has completed its first deployment of TelePresence rooms (Cisco); small businesses are using an online web/video collaboration service (Citrix GoToMeeting); the top Computerworld IT Award for non-profit organisations that benefit society goes to Medical Mission for Children (Polycom); the staff of T-Systems and T-Mobile In Germany have had over 40,000 video meetings in the last 30 months and cut parent company Deutsche Telekom’s CO2 emissions by 7,000 tons (Desktop VC from VidSoft of Dresden, Germany). There will be some new products on show at Infocom07 at the Anaheim Convention Centre near Los Angeles this week. Polycom is demonstrating the exciting and path-breaking new Polycom Video Media Centre and some on-demand products of its new Ecosystem partners. Other collaboration industry vendors are located in the IMCCA-organised Collaborative Conferencing Pavilion on the Show Floor where the Aethra HD VegaX7 and RADVISION Scopia Desktop are worth seeing in action. HaiVision Systems is showing the hai1000 MAKO-HD encoder/decoder board for the six-slot hai1000 system providing up to 5 bi-directional channels of HD video/audio. The Conferencing Industry News this week includes: Polycom’s ARENA Program for Ecosystem Partners to create new On-Demand Collaboration Solutions; Key new appointments at Videre Conferencing; three regional reports by Wainhouse Research on the conferencing services industry; and lots of News in Brief. This is followed by a list of events in Q3 and Q4 2007, including CommunicAsia 2007 at the Singapore Expo 19-22 June 2007. The next News Summary will be published after two weeks on Wednesday, 4 July 2007. |
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| In France, 10 hospitals have installed a network of TANDBERG Intern II telemedicine systems that links their emergency rooms to the prestigious Bichat Stroke Center at Bichat Hospital in Paris | |
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Posted 22 August 2005. 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. "We only have three hours,... (read article) |
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| Review of an Outstanding Book on the practical uses of Telemedicine: “Teleneurology”: Edited by Richard Wootton and Victor Patterson and published by Royal Society of Medicine Press London. | |
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20 August 2005. The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd. of London has published an outstanding book on the practical uses of Telemedicine on a fourth branch of medicine - Neurology. This the sixth book in a series which already covers Teledermatology, Telepsychiatry and Telemedicine and Child Health. UK Systems Integrator Questmark and TANDBERG contributed to the cost of t... (read article) |
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| The Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota has installed Vocera hands-free voice communication that enables nursing staff to communicate with one another without leaving a patients bedside | |
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The Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota has installed Vocera hands-free voice communication that enables nursing staff to communicate with one another without leaving a patients bedside 20 June 2005. Posted 8 August 2005. Regions Hospital has discovered a new way to improve the safety of its patients and staff through the use of an innovative voice technology system from Vocera Comm... (read article) |
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| In the 100 "Most Wired" Hospitals in the United States, risk-adjusted mortality rates are 7.2 percent lower says The American Hospital Association’s journal Hospitals & Health Networks | |
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25 July 2005. Each year since 1999, the American Hospital Association’s journal Hospitals & Health Networks has surveyed the nation’s hospitals on their use of information technology to accomplish key goals, including safety and quality objectives. Based on a detailed scoring process, H&HN annually names the 100 Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems. The winners were recognized ... (read article) |
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| In India, The Internet makes telemedicine advice available to all; India’s top hospital chain Apollo Hospitals and Reliance Infocomm will provide excellent healthcare through telemedicine | |
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27 July 2005 published 21 September 2005. India’s top hospital chain Apollo Hospitals and Reliance Infocomm have announced an agreement to cooperate to provide healthcare through telemedicine. Apollo Hospital will use Reliance Infocomm’s nationwide chain of 240 WebWorlds with videoconferencing facilities in 105 cities in India to offer high-quality healthcare. Apollo Hospitals is the f... (read article) |
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| In the West of Scotland, communication between doctors and surgeons delivering healthcare to sparse populations in remote communities is delivered with Polycom videoconferencing systems | |
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29 June, 2005. If Wales makes the most use of telemedicine to serve its rural population, Scotland is not far behind. NHS Ayrshire & Arran, located in the West of Scotland, is one of the 15 health authorities in Scotland; it has 5,600 direct clinical staff to provide health care to a population of around 367,000. NHS Ayrshire & Arran has installed 13 Polycom group video confere... (read article) |
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| For Osteoporosis Screening by making a Bone Mineral Density (BMD) Assessment, the DICOM OsteoGram can provide a similar result as a standard x-ray, but more quickly and at a lower cost. | |
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14 June 2005. CompuMed, Inc., a medical informatics company serving the healthcare community with diagnostic software solutions, has presented results of a clinical study comparing its digital x-ray OsteoGram(R) against its standard film x-ray OsteoGram. The results affirm that the digital version assesses Bone Mineral Density (BMD) more efficiently than the standard x-ray version, wit... (read article) |
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| In Italy, Telemedicine and ‘Stroke Box’ initiatives are helping Acute Stroke Victims to obtain better access to the life-saving technologies of Thrombolysis and clot-busting drugs | |
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26 May 2005 posted 14 June 2005. Doctors and surgeons specialising in recovery from Stroke meeting at the European Stroke Congress in Bologna, Italy in May heard how the use of initiatives such as telemedicine and a novel ‘Stroke Lysis Box’ are making it possible for an increasing number of acute stroke victims to receive life saving thrombolysis treatment. Acute ischaemic stroke is a ... (read article) |
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| University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and the University of Mississippi Medical Center to present their Program to expand Diabetes Healthcare to Mississippi Delta to politicians in Washington D.C. | |
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| In Roumania, Bucharest’s Emergency Hospital uses Aethra videoconferencing systems to facilitate Teleconsulting and Distance Learning | |
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23 May 2005. The Emergency Hospital in Bucharest is the most important hospital of its kind in Roumania and is at the forefront of technical innovation in the medical sector. It was the main promoter and is now at the centre of the National Trauma Network – a prominent national project, which links Regional Emergency Hospitals by video communication for first response and better management of p... (read article) |
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| TANDBERG's Intern Tele-HealthCare Solution deployed at First Regional Neuro Critical Care Center in Massachusetts to enable advice on stroke patients 24/7 | |
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10 May 2005. Brain Saving Technologies (BST) will deploy TANDBERG's Intern Tele-HealthCare Solution as a key component of its first Neuro Critical Care Center in Massachusetts. BST's Neuro Critical Care Center links emergency-room doctors to neuro critical-care experts through the company's Neuro TeleMD workstation communication system. In providing visual communications, the advanced ... (read article) |
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| Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) of Oakland, California uses a TANDBERG 1000 MXP individual videooconferencing system to link a patient to a language interpreter | |
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18 April 2005. At Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., where 30-to-40 percent of patients have limited proficiency in English, patients no longer need to wait unnecessary hours for language interpretation. The Medical Center is employing a visual communication language interpretation system, using technology from TANDBERG®, a global leader in visual communication. At ... (read article) |
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| At CeBIT 2005, the three Fraunhofer Institutes and Technical University of Vienna presented lengthy detailed specifications for an Electronic Health Insurance card running to 1,000 pages | |
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14 March 2005. At CeBIT 2005, the three Fraunhofer Institutes ISST, IAO and SIT together with the “Industrial Software” group of experts of the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) presented the solution architecture for the electronic health insurance card to Germany’s Federal Minister of Health and Social Security, Ulla Schmidt. At peak times 120 experts from up to 40 insti... (read article) |
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| Telemedicine helps Cancer patients get quicker treatment; hospitals in Essex, UK make better use of their surgeons’ scarce time by using video conferencing for remote consultations | |
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The video conferencing has proved so successful that Southend... (read article) |
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| Polycom’s videoconferencing and medical image collaboration solutions have led to the successful deployment of Telehealth/Telemedicine in Wales using the Welsh IP network | |
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21 March 2005. “Polycom’s video conferencing solutions are helping the Welsh Health Video Service to change the way healthcare is provided by reducing both distance and time for patients. In addition, video now enables us to provide care in areas that were previously difficult to reach due to location or restricted access.” said Ken Pile, All Wales Telemedicine Implementation Manage... (read article) |
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| Polycom’s new wireless telemedicine solutions helps doctors reach more patients; and an application based on the VSX platform helps NHS Multi-Disciplinary Teams work more efficiently | |
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21 March 2005. Polycom®, Inc. is launching two new telemedicine solutions at HealthCare Computing 2005 at Harrogate in the UK this week. The solutions are: the Polycom MedLink™ Cart and Polycom Practitioner Cart™ and can be seen in Hall D on Stand 20.. These solutions have been specifically designed to provide mobile video communications, operating over wireless netwo... (read article) |
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| UK Minister says that rewards to doctors and other staff for carrying out extra work in the NHS have proved effective; one Hospital Group has used telemedicine to extend dermatology advice | |
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15 February 2005. An initiative to reward doctors and other staff for carrying out extra work is to be rolled out further across the NHS, Health Minister John Hutton has announced. It will mean new ways of working, leading to thousands of NHS patients having their operations more quickly, he said. The Fee for Service scheme involves consultants and other staff receiving bonus payments ... (read article) |
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| Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the primary referral center for eight surrounding hospitals in southeast Holland, is integrating video communications on TANDBERG 6000 codecs and medical care | |
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Posted 21 February 2005. The City of Eindhoven in The Netherlands is served by Catharina Hospital, a prestigious center of medical treatment and learning. Its 140 physicians, covering 30 medical specialties, receive the most serious cases in southeast Holland. The hospital is now using visual communications,to give its doctors a diagnostic view of patients never before possible. Visitin... (read article) |
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| Aethra will demonstrate ViTA, its new Theseus-based telemedicine solution for Home Care applications, operating on broadband at CeBIT 2005 on the DSL Forum stand | |
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22 February 2005. Aethra® will demonstarte its new telemedicine business-to-consumer (B2C) applications on broadband DSL at Hall 13, Booth D 37 CEBIT 2005, Hannover, Germany 10-16 March 2005 where the DSL Forum is on show. The new solutions allow video communication on broadband DSL lines, with great benefits in terms of speed, high quality connections, and cost savings. Video communic... (read article) |
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| Clark Clinic at the Belfast Royal Group of hospitals allows young heart patients to return home as soon as it is safe for them to do so by using video conferencing links with a Polycom VSX 3000 | |
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Clark Clinic at the Belfast Royal Group of hospitals allows young heart patients to return home as soon as it is safe for them to do so by using video conferencing links with a Polycom VSX 3000 16 February, 2005. The Paediatric Cardiology Department at Clark Clinic of the Belfast Royal Group of hospitals is deploying Polycom VSX 3000 video conferencing systems to improve the aftercare ... (read article) |
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| Aethra’s telemedicine product family wins our Award for “The Best Products of the Year 2004 for Telemedicine”. Aethra offers integrated solutions for hospital consultations and remote home care | |
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17 January 2005. The Aethra telemedicine product family wins “The Best Products of the Year 2004 for Telemedicine” Award. The Aethra Eykona 700 integrated telemedicine system won this Award in 2000, 2001 and 2002. When the Aethra VITA Remote Home Care system was added in 2003, Aethra won again. Aethra wins again in 2004 because the integrated system has been further improved in many ways includ... (read article) |
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| In the United States, Medicare announces new rules favourable to the reimbursemnt of services rendered by Telemedicine; T-Med Behavioral says that the new rules are better than expected | |
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13 December 2004 posted 10 January 2005. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued their final ruling last month on Medicare coverage of telehealth services. The agency approved the addition of several CPT codes related to renal dialysis to the list of covered telehealth services. In addition it was agreed Medicare will pay for non face- to-face patient services listed i... (read article) |
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