Polycom Showcases Technology and Developer Partner Healthcare Applications Leveraging Polycom® RealPresence® Platform at HIMSS 2013 Conference
Polycom,
Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open, standards-based
unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), today showcased at the
HIMSS 2013 Conference (booth #1320) several technology and developer
partner solutions for a variety of healthcare applications using Polycom
HD video, voice, and content sharing and management capabilities.
Together, Polycom and its partners are helping to drive preventative
medicine, reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, and extend the reach and
capabilities of telehealth networks.
Healthcare organizations around the world turn to Polycom® RealPresence®
collaboration solutions to transform how they teach, learn and deliver
care. Polycom solutions eliminate the distances between patients and
caregivers, between physicians and educators, and between medical
facilities. By bringing caregivers and patients, multi-disciplinary
medical teams, and administrative staffs together face-to-face in HD
video quality, independent of location, Polycom RealPresence solutions
reduce patient evaluation times, extend the reach and capacity of
physicians with the ability to consult with patients remotely, improve
medical education, enhance caregiver productivity and quality of life,
streamline hospital operations, reduce costs, and ultimately help save
lives by accelerating access to experts in times of crisis.
“Healthcare organizations are under pressure to deliver the best
possible patient care with reduced resources. At the same time they’re
challenged by the aging population and a shortage of healthcare
providers in many cities and regions,” said Steve Pattison, Vice
President of Technology Developer Partners and Business Development at
Polycom. “Polycom RealPresence video solutions combined with our
partners’ technology provide healthcare facilities, healthcare
professionals, and medical educators great new tools to deal with these
challenges by extending collaborative healthcare networks to connect
experts to where they’re needed most, and by facilitating prevention and
wellness models of care that are much better for the health of patients
as well as the industry’s bottom line. With partners like AMD,
Eceptionist and GlobalMed, we offer healthcare providers more ways to
coordinate care and share knowledge in more effective, productive, and
budget-friendly ways.”
Anchored by the Polycom®
RealPresence® Platform – the most comprehensive and interoperable
software infrastructure for universal video collaboration – Polycom
video offerings can be used in conjunction with partners’ products to
meet a range of emerging use cases in the healthcare field, including
using live or on-demand video to support care coordination, records
compliance, education efforts, and more. For example:
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AMD Global Telemedicine – AMD offers a series of cameras,
dermascopes, nasopharyngoscopes, ophthalmoscopes, and telephonic
stethoscopes. When combined with Polycom RealPresence video and audio
solutions, AMD Global Telemedicine and Polycom provide easy-to-use,
high-quality telemedicine tools for emergency rooms and urgent care
centers, pediatric and general practitioner offices, or specialists’
offices like dermatology or ear-nose-throat (ENT). AMD Global
Telemedicine and Polycom also partner to help healthcare providers
acquire, store and forward medical images as part of a live video
telemedicine consultation.
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Eceptionist – Eceptionist is a web-based solution used around
the world on a daily basis by the most respected names in healthcare
to manage, schedule and coordinate multiple forms of virtual and
non-virtual telehealth services, referral and service triage, extra
enterprise scheduling, care pathways and wait lists. Eceptionist
supports telehealth, referrals, scheduling and reporting and can
easily be configured to support intelligent referral and scheduling
processes. Eceptionist connects with the Polycom RealPresence Platform
software infrastructure to schedule and manage all aspects of virtual
collaboration.
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GlobalMed – Working with Polycom, GlobalMed integrates video
conferencing and collaboration solutions into its medical peripherals
and cloud-based image and data management software, creating one
portable system, extending the solutions to hospitals, teaching
institutions, clinics, and home healthcare environments. Their
solutions are deployed on a global basis into hospitals, federal and
teaching institutions, clinics, and corporate and home healthcare
environments. Through this key partnership, physicians are able to
maximize their collaboration efforts using GlobalMed’s Encounter™
management system, enabling virtual health consultations with the
ability to capture patient video, vital signs, and visible and
non-visible light images, all of which make best use of the clinical
workflow across the entity’s care ecosystem.
The Polycom RealPresence Platform software infrastructure provides
robust provisioning, management, scalability, reliability, flexibility,
and security for secure face-to-face video collaboration in any
environment. In July
2012, Polycom announced a rich new suite of open application
programming interfaces (APIs) that facilitate the development of custom
applications, such as scheduling solutions, to extend the value of the
Polycom RealPresence Platform software infrastructure. Aimed at making
video collaboration easier to integrate into everyday business
processes, the APIs allow Polycom developers and technology partners to
tailor applications that seamlessly integrate with Polycom RealPresence
video solutions.
Demonstrations
Polycom will also demonstrate key solutions and videos in booth #1320 at
HIMSS 2013 in New Orleans, LA, March 3-7, 2013. Clinicians, healthcare
educators and administrators currently use these applications in the
areas of telehealth, continuing medical education and patient
administration to help reduce costs, expedite patient evaluation and
ultimately save lives. Sample use cases include:
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Discharge Planning – Learn how collaborative multi-point video
calls using the Polycom RealPresence Platform software infrastructure, Polycom®
RealPresence® Group Series solution, Polycom®
RealPresence® Media Manager software, Polycom®
RealPresence® Mobile 2.2 app, and Polycom
RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite software can connect the care
team, patients and family for better discharge planning and reduced
readmissions.
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Accountable Care Organization (ACO) planning and implementation
– See how Polycom RealPresence Platform software infrastructure and
Polycom RealPresence Media Manager software deliver prevention and
wellness programs to the patient at home, in long-term care settings
or at a community center.
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Public health prevention and wellness – Witness a live
telehealth call using the GSA schedule approved Polycom®
RealPresence® Practitioner Cart® 8000 (see related press
release), to connect distant patients to specialists or groups of
patients to live multi-point educational sessions for peer-to-peer
medical education.
About Polycom Public Sector
Polycom's collaborative video and voice conferencing technologies
securely extend the reach of government, education and healthcare
services to improve performance and mission success so that Public
Sector organizations can thrive in the 21st century. Public Sector
organizations depend on Polycom to provide rich, interactive,
collaboration solutions that impact all facets of government, education
and healthcare so information can be shared, decisions accelerated, and
services delivered when and where they are needed most. Polycom's
interoperable solutions address the major certifications, security
requirements and regulations required to service Public Sector
organizations, including FIPS 140-2 validation, IPv6 and Unified
Capabilities Approved Product List (UC APL) certifications, FDA Medical
Device Data Systems (MDDS) Class 1 and Embedded Encryption Enabling
HIPAA Compliance.
About Polycom
Polycom is the global leader in open, standards-based unified
communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice and video
collaboration, trusted by more than 415,000 customers around the world.
Polycom solutions are powered by the Polycom® RealPresence®
Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich APIs that
interoperate with the broadest set of communication, business, mobile
and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video
collaboration in any environment. Polycom and its ecosystem of over
7,000 partners provide truly unified communications solutions that
deliver the best user experience, highest multi-vendor interoperability,
and lowest TCO. Visit www.polycom.com
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