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the same time, where physicians are unavailable, other staff and operations personnel also
experience reduced productivity.
Collaborative Consultations Becoming Standard
Healthcare increasingly relies on collaborative consultations for everything from research to patient
referrals, specialist consultations, and delivering care to remote areas. However, increasing
demand makes it almost impossible for a limited number of specialists to meet the growing need.
Patients may have to travel to a distant place for care they need. Hospitals may have to divert
patients to competing facilities, resulting in lost revenues and lower patient satisfaction.
Operations Becoming Geographically Dispersed
Healthcare organizations face the growing complexity of managing thousands of employees in
multiple sites and collaborating on standard treatment protocols and workflows. Traditionally,
healthcare executives have had to travel extensively to provide executive leadership across regions
and facilities, which can be costly and reduces their productivity.
Shortage of Medical Resources
Patients living in remote or underserved areas might have reduced access to quality healthcare –
even basic care from a primary physician. Additionally, specialists, such as radiologists, cardiology
specialists, and nuclear medicine experts, are increasingly in short supply. At many organizations,
they travel between facilities to consult with multiple medical teams, losing valuable time and
productivity. As healthcare organizations seek to meet growing patient demand, they face the dual
challenge of expanding access to care while scaling a finite pool of skilled professionals and
specialized expertise to cover a growing patient population.
Cisco TelePresence for Healthcare
Meeting these challenges requires collaboration among essential caregivers in treatment pathways,
which is why many healthcare organizations are focusing on collaboration initiatives. Today, Cisco
TelePresence for Healthcare can help you improve the business and clinical workflows that deliver
the most powerful impacts – those that rely on people, information, and expertise.
Cisco TelePresence creates immersive, in-person meeting experiences among geographically
dispersed users – over the network. Integrated visual, audio and video components deliver the
characteristics of a face-to-face meeting, creating a lifelike collaboration experience with:
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Smooth and realistic motion
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Accurate color replication
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An apparent eye-to-eye viewpoint
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Superb and accurate sound rendering, synchronized with the images presented
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Hours of interaction without user fatigue
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Life-sized user representation
By enabling executives, physicians, specialists, patients, and suppliers to meet, discuss, and make
decisions in real time, regardless of their locations, you can help them reduce the inefficiencies of
traditional collaboration tools. Cisco TelePresence also reduces the need for frequent travel,
enabling people to accomplish more in the same amount of time – without the stress and fatigue
associated with travel. You gain the ability to effectively interact with virtual teams all over the world
and manage these interactions in real time.
