Cisco claims its new HealthPresence platform is an advanced, care-at-a-distance technology platform designed to help patients connect to doctors for healthcare care consultancy.
The objective of the HealthPresence solution is to act as a transformative patient care-delivery concept that combines Cisco TelePresence with Cisco IP Call Center technologies and physiological information from diagnostic devices to create a live, “face-to-face visit” experience for patients and clinicians who might be hundreds or even thousands of miles apart.
Using the network as the platform, Cisco HealthPresence has the ability to break the boundaries of geography and eases pressure from the increasing demand for expert services in any healthcare system—regionally, nationally, or globally.
Cisco HealthPresence can enable collaboration and personalization rarely accomplished in traditional face-to-face consultations by making use of HD video and crystal clear audio and connected medical devices. And importantly it also allows multiple members of a patient's care team to simultaneously participate in consultations, creating new ways to deliver and coordinate healthcare.
Officials with Cisco have stated that health systems globally are challenged to meet increasing demand for quality services. Patients often have limited access to health care, particularly when they require specialty services or need care for chronic illness, in both urban and rural settings. Cisco HealthPresence is poised to transform how doctors practice medicine and how patients experience care, by allowing individuals to easily and safely connect with the most appropriate clinician or specialist for their particular needs, and to receive some of the best care possible regardless of location.
Cisco HealthPresence can also address access, cost, and convenience in a highly secure environment that preserves the quality of interaction to which patients and providers doctors are accustomed. The platform eliminates the need for clinicians and patients to be located in the same physical location. By deploying the new platform, healthcare facilities will be able to reach a much wider and highly dispersed patient base, in order to provide the appropriate care.
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