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Cisco Medical-Grade Network Provides
New Clinical Connectivity Solutions
New offerings help improve clinician communications, workflow
Cisco Systems today introduced a new healthcare solution at SHOWCASE 2005. The solution broadens the Cisco Medical-Grade Network by enabling faster, smarter healthcare with the ability to direct, locate and prioritize information for clinicians and their patients. The new Cisco Clinical Connection Suite consists of four integrated clinical applications — Nurse Call, Patient Monitoring, Location-Based Services and Collaborative Care — that enable clinicians to more efficiently and easily connect with the information, people and equipment they need, when they need it. As a result, hospitals realize improved staff productivity, reduced capital and operating costs with extended clinical systems, and significantly enhanced quality of care and services.
“Hospitals and medical institutions throughout Asia are facing increasing pressure to raise the quality of healthcare with limited resources. Thus far, IT solutions do not adequately address this need to improve the clinical workflow. Cisco’s new Clinical Connection Suite aims to correct this by improving the way patients are diagnosed, monitored and treated, while also helping these healthcare organizations reduce costs,” said Vincent Lim, Healthcare Solutions manager in Asia Pacific for Cisco Systems. “Building on the Cisco Medical-Grade Network, the Cisco Clinical Connection Suite is helping hospitals around the world, such as Boston Medical Center in the USA and St Olav’s in Norway. A leading hospital in Singapore is also piloting the solution to help its staff improve its response time to patients' needs.”
Based on a single, converged Cisco Medical-Grade Network for voice, video and data, the Cisco Clinical Connection Suite provides real-time communications, monitoring, collaboration and resource tracking, delivered as an integrated solution in conjunction with the industry’s leading application and medical device partners.
Nurse Call
Nurse Call enables real-time alerts, such as patient or caregiver locations, to be delivered via wired or wireless devices, including IP phones. Instead of being contacted on overhead paging systems or dedicated pagers, clinicians can now use
Cisco’s wireless IP phones to access Nurse Call Systems such as Rauland-Borg and middleware from GlobeStar Systems. Now, clinicians can receive patient location notifications and engage in direct communications with their patients and mobile colleagues.
Patient Monitoring
Patient Monitoring provides real-time delivery of demographic data and key patient information via text and wave form transmission to any wired or wireless IP device. With the realities of healthcare as a wireless profession, caregivers cannot be tethered to nursing stations or remain in the same clinical area for any length of time. Enabled by Cisco communications capabilities connecting patient monitoring devices from device manufacturers such as Philips and Draeger, Patient Monitoring enables nurses to receive alerts on their patients’ status, regardless of where they may be located within the healthcare facility.
Location-Based Services
Today, valuable time is spent by nurses and clinicians in searching for critical equipment and other hospital resources. Location-Based Services leverages the Cisco Medical-Grade Network and real-time location services for IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and Radio Frequency Identification Systems (RFID) tracking technology to allow hospitals to locate and track key assets, such as equipment and devices. In conjunction with the Cisco Wireless Location Appliance and applications provider Aeroscout, Cisco’s Location-Based Services help improve efficiency by reducing asset tracking time, and by preventing equipment loss and replacement costs. Most importantly, patient care is improved by reducing unnecessary wait times for equipment.
Collaborative Care
Collaborative Care enables ad hoc collaboration between staff and clinicians with on-demand audio and videoconferencing capabilities. Using Cisco MeetingPlace and Tandberg’s videoconferencing systems, Collaborative Care helps speed the time to diagnosis and treatment by bringing the right caregiver together with patient data in real-time. In addition, Collaborative Care enables hospitals and clinics to provide new services, such as real-time video-based translation capabilities for non-English speaking patients.
“Leveraging TANDBERG’s visual communication solutions with Cisco’s Medical Grade Network will provide the healthcare industry with an effective and easy-to-implement solution,” said Benny Lee, President — TANDBERG, Asia Pacific. “Patients will be able to access specialist and expert-level diagnosis and patient care anywhere in the world. TANDBERG is proud to help improve the quality of healthcare through high quality telemedicine technology.”
The Cisco Clinical Connection Suite is available today worldwide. For more information, please visit www.cisco.com/go/healthcare
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