Hospitals and other medical facilities will be able to
offer better patient care virtually anywhere with the
latesthealthcare telepresence systemsfromNortelandPolycom.
The technolgies will enable healthcare providers to create
multi-location virtual meetings so physicians, surgeons,
researchers and other professionals will be able to communicate
from different locations.
This can help them be
more efficient and productive because it delivers most of the
same benefits of in-person consultations without the time and
expense of travel, says the supplier.
Nortel's Healthcare Telepresence systems include standards-based
telepresence and high-definition (HD) video conferencing from
Polycom for telemedicine and clinical collaboration.
They also include Nortel Multimedia Services such as recording
and archiving of clinical records and educational materials for
re-use via the web and other media.
Nortel can operate, manage and maintain this system on behalf of
any healthcare provider with services from the Nortel Global
Services portfolio.
Polycom offers a number of telepresence and HD video
collaboration systems designed specifically for healthcare.
This includes the mobile Polycom HDX Practitioner Cart, which
enables physicians to examine and diagnose remotely-located
patients in real-time.