Transform Healthcare Delivery with Cisco WebEx
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Transform Healthcare Delivery with Cisco WebEx The healthcare industry is poised for opportunity as technology and research innovations revolutionize treatment and care. However, care is also becoming more complex, requiring a more specialized workforce to deliver many services, often over a more geographically dispersed area. And the accelerating pace of operations and administration requires more efficient business and clinical processes. Healthcare managers need better ways to communicate and collaborate without increasing costs or reducing the effectiveness of human interaction. The Cisco WebEx™ technology platform for collaboration and communication can help you meet today’s challenges and continue to address future needs. Industry Challenges Today you must facilitate communications and collaboration for a workforce separated by geography, time zones, and facilities. Although advances in research, treatment, and processes strengthen the healthcare system, accessing them may require interaction between multiple sites or clinicians. This changing environment creates new challenges for you. • Increasing travel: Patients are often referred to specialists located at remote sites or a different facility, requiring time and travel. • Slow treatment delivery: Care and research teams must often collaborate across organizations, which can affect the speed and effectiveness of treatment. • Declining quality of care: Patient transfers make clinics lose revenue; incur travel costs, and lower patient satisfaction impacting the quality of care. • Managing medical education: Continuing medical education often requires doctors and nurses to travel and take time away from patients. • Lost productivity: The constant need to update processes, such as health records management or nursing care plans, requires training that can impair productivity. Cisco WebEx in Healthcare You can address these challenges using leading-edge Cisco® collaboration, communication, and information access services. WebEx® technology offers a platform for you to address clinical and operational challenges in two major ways. First, improve care & productivity by eliminating distance as a barrier to delivering care: • Provide consultations and second opinions to sites without requisite clinical resources • Use application sharing to help clinicians access records from disparate systems • Engage remotely located physicians for whom travel or other costs would have precluded using their expertise • Conduct research collaboration sessions without the need to travel Second, reduce costs associated with medical education and application training: • Conduct regional, staff, and operations meetings without travel • Deliver continuing medical education for physicians and nurses • Provide education opportunities on demand, online • Roll out application training to healthcare staff on new processes • Conduct education for large groups • Provide online forums for group case reviews The Cisco WebEx platform facilitates better communications, learning, and collaboration through a highly secure, integrated environment. It’s a virtual team workspace, training center, and meeting center with single sign-on to support all collaboration tools and solutions. Clinician Training, Collaboration, and Medical Conferences Continuing Medical Education training: Provide training on WebEx to reduce travel and time away from patients. Healthcare professionals can attend updates on new treatments and processes through WebEx, either on demand or during live sessions. Collaboration: Conduct regular case review sessions and tumor boards over WebEx. Doctors and nurses can view images and other materials, and discuss details to improve quality of care. Physicians at multiple locations can participate from their offices. Large-scale training: Provide training for physicians, nurses, and other groups in many places at once, incorporating presentations, Q&A, video, and handouts. WebEx provides an intimate, effective setting and eliminates the time and expense of conducting multiple sessions. Training for application rollout: Provide instructor-led training on new clinical applications over Cisco WebEx, reaching many sites in one session. Allow users to access training on demand, reducing lost pr

Transform Healthcare Delivery with Cisco WebEx Virtual Care Teams, Care Plans, and Patient Communities Enhance clinical consultations and care: Extend your expert resources across a broad geographic area, reducing patient transfers and increasing physician effectiveness. Access second opinions through WebEx, or enable specialist diagnosis and treatment plans through Cisco TelePresence™ conferencing technology. Improve nursing care plans: Streamline distribution of new care plans, guidelines, and training; create a repository with current, easily accessible information. A Cisco WebEx Connect...