CSC launches 'Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices' to offer global market exper tise
CSC HAS ANNOUNCED the launch
of its Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices with the mission of monitoring worldwide trends, conducting regional and multi-country studies, and evaluating emerging operational practices and technologies that have the potential to improve performance of healthcare industries around the world. By merging trends and experience across geographies, and tapping its expertise in the United States, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), CSC’s new endeavour will offer healthcare providers the tools to learn about, and capitalise on, best practices no matter where they are developed. “While many aspects of healthcare
payment differ among countries, the goals of safe, efficient and high quality care are universal – and technology is a critical component of delivering on these imperatives,” said Mark Roman, president of CSC’s Global Healthcare Group. “CSC’s expertise in technology, and our position as a global leader in the healthcare market, enables us to deliver key insights and uncover tools and services for use by our clients around the world. We are pleased to create a formal home for our thought leadership activities, which will allow us to share what we learn with the industry.” Dr. Harald Deutsch, vice president, CSC
Healthcare EMEA added: “As the healthcare landscape across EMEA continues to
change, it is increasingly important to provide our customers with credible industry intelligence to enable them to make better informed business decisions”. In tandem with the launch, CSC
released a new global report, ‘Telemedicine – An Essential Technology for Reformed Healthcare,’ that describes how telemedicine addresses the healthcare challenges of access to care, resource shortages and escalating costs that impact healthcare throughout the world. The report also identifies telemedicine solutions available and already in use. For instance, specialists in Queensland, Australia, provide rural care through a mobile screening program that operates as a mobile clinic from a van in remote areas. HB
Polycom helps 35 healthcare institutions in 13 countries improve training and patient care
POLYCOM, INC., A global leader in unified communications, and the International Virtual e-Hospital (IVeH) have partnered on a new model that enables medical professionals to collaborate via video and share their expertise across 35 healthcare and academic institutions globally, thanks to an innovative Polycom video collaboration program that has helped rebuild Kosovo’s medical system. With its success clearly demonstrated, the model is now being deployed more broadly in new regions outside the Balkans including Africa, the Middle East, South Eastern Europe, and South America. The world-renowned International
Virtual e-Hospital (IVeH) was established in 2001 by Dr. Rifat Latifi to create sustainable telemedicine and e-health programs around the world and to rebuild medical systems in developing countries. Launched as the
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Telemedicine Program of Kosovo (TPK), the program has since connected seven Kosovan hospitals via telemedicine and provided access to an electronic medical library for distance learning with video facilities in Albania, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, UK, and US. Each telemedicine center in
Kosovo contains video collaboration rooms, tele-consultation rooms, and telemedicine training rooms, as well as mobile telepresence units in patient rooms which results in better patient care and improved trainings and resources for hospital physicians and staff. “The Polycom video conferencing solution helps us quickly share knowledge, train the next generation of medical providers, and conduct consultations with worldwide experts to ultimately improve patient care,” said Dr. Latifi, IVeH founder. “Thanks
to the access to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical library as well as experts around the world, regional telemedicine centers are now able to develop their own educational programs based on this vast resource; this electronic library logged approximately 54,000 visits within the first three years of operation. The telemedicine centers provide us with a timely, reliable, and accessible way to bring content, experts, and organizations together in a more productive and cost-efficient way.” HB
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