Cisco And Tandberg In Hospitals

Tandberg and Cisco are working together to provide eight UK hospitals with a clinical connection system that uses a mix of videoconferencing and network technologies.

Tandberg is linking its video systems to Cisco’s Clinical Connection Suite, which provides real-time communications, monitoring, collaboration, and resource tracking,

The network is being deployed to eight regional hospitals and 32 remote sites by the NHS in order to help diagnose and treat cancer patients. Faced with mamixising the productivity of ‘a limited number of radiologists, pathologists and oncologists’, the NHS has installed the system to allow cancer

specialists to collaborate on patient diagnosis and treatment plans. 

‘Since deploying our video systems for multi-disciplinary teamwork within

cancer networks, we’ve seen a reduction in patient waiting,’ said NHS

Communications Specialist Gus Hartley.  ‘We treat patients

more effectively and clinicians make more effective use of their time.’

The Tandberg-Cisco collaborative care customers are able to collaborate over

video for administration in real time, grand rounds, continuing medical

education (CME), translation services and assisted surgery, says Tandberg.

The Tandberg-Cisco Telehealth systems have also been deployed at The University of California-Davis Medical Center (UCDMC), where patients and staff can now  visually confer with medical institutions and specialists around the world, and at The Grampians Rural Health Alliance Network (GRAHNet) in Australia. GRAHNet is being used to connect 40 remote hospitals.

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