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DEFINITY® Business Communications System and GuestWorks® Issue 6
Overview
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Issue 1
April 2000
Industry Applications
3-11Health Care
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Improve accessibility to specialists
Medical professionals often need to contact specialists in a particular field but are
restricted because of time, distance, and expense. They provide better medical
care by doing the following:
■ Consulting with experts, sometimes during surgery
■ Overcoming boundaries of distance — by consulting with any physician,
no matter the location.
Desktop conferencing systems can be used in patients’ homes by home health
nurses to confer with physicians about patient conditions. This enables more
patients to be cared for outside the hospital, and reduces the need for the very ill
to travel to the hospital or physician’s office.
Maintain skills and collaborative relationships
regardless of location
In the health care industry, there is an urgent need for multiple sites to operate as
one and for medical professionals to collaborate remotely, so they can provide
top-quality health care to patients in rural areas. Doctors and nurses must also
stay abreast of technological innovations in the field and continue their
educations.
The system can play a critical role in connecting remote and sparsely populated
communities with the advanced centers in health care. This technology enables
the same level of sophistication in the rural settings as that available in the urban
medical centers by doing the following:
■ Improving communications
■ Improving staff satisfaction
■ Increasing personnel skills
■ Providing improved patient care
■ Reducing time and travel expense.
The Lucent Technologies Desktop Conferencing System can help with the
following:
■ Continuing medical education
Doctors can learn at their desktops, without having to pay for expensive
travel bills and time away from their offices and homes.
Medical students can be educated at remote sites. Distance learning can
help medical students assigned to rural clinics learn from doctors in hub
hospitals and medical centers.
■ Remote consultations by non-physician medical staff, which are often
difficult to arrange in rural areas.