• Tele-Healthcare

    Transform the way patient care is delivered: optimize resources, improve quality of care, span distances and speed the delivery of health care services.

    Distance and terrain often make it difficult to get the right physician and patient together. Sometimes instant opinions are needed, that's why thousands of healthcare professionals use Polycom solutions to provide access to medical services in remote locations while driving down the cost of these services.

    Polycom offers the best way for any healthcare provider to improve the quality of care, control costs, address staffing shortages, serve rural patients and keep pace with the competition with real-time interactive communication for healthcare environments.

    Benefits

    • Increase Access to Care – break down the distance barriers across all geographies and demographics and facilitate secure, collaborative environments for doctor/patient care
    • Improve Continuity of Care for Patients – enable instant collaboration between clinics, consultants, primary and specialty care that serve patients
    • Expand Service Offerings – provide rehabilitation, mental health, surgery, primary care and training services with interactive voice, video and content
    • Enhance Efficiency & Productivity – save time and speed the delivery of medical treatment to patients in remote areas—medical teams are able to meet to review X-Rays, microscopic images and graphic details without travel
    • Promote Readiness and Response – physicians and specialists are better prepared to deliver high quality, up to date care to patients in unique situations
    • Enable Situational Analysis – provide meaningful and informative scene-to-hospital information flow that is essential for casualty distribution in an emergency
    • Decrease Security Risks and Costs – associated with transporting inmates to off site medical facilities
    • Improve Collaboration with International Medical Community – quickly and efficiently share new research information for the benefit of all
    • Integrate Best Practices – partner with private industry, other nongovernmental, and governmental agencies for identification and integration of best practices

    Applications

    • Healthcare Administration – collaborate with suppliers/vendors, increase staff and general communication with remote facilities, enable better project management, preliminary interviews
    • Continuing Medical Education – sustain the highest quality of education of staff in remote locations and enjoy the convenience of accessing professional development classes, certification programs, and training through video conferencing
    • Sign & Foreign Language Interpretation – provide appropriate communication support in a variety of healthcare settings
    • Primary Care – evaluate and diagnose illnesses in real time, without requiring patients to travel long distances
    • Mental Health/Psychiatry – provide counseling and readjustment services such as rehabilitation and tele-psychiatry
    • Correctional Services – provide primary care and a variety of specialty services to correction facilities without the need to transport inmates
    • Clinical & Specialty Care – provide specialty care services such as Neurology, Radiology, Pathology, Dermatology, Oncology, Endocrinology and many more

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