Medical Video Conferencing
Videonations integrates video conferencing solutions for medical and healthcare providers for a variety of applications including telemedicine. Our healthcare customers are finding that medical video conferencing is playing a vital role in the delivery of improved patient care, increased operating efficiencies, boosted revenues and reduced expenses.
Video Conferencing Applications in Healthcare
- Telemedicine – delivering aspects of patient care and education via video conferencing
- Delivering specialist care irrespective of distance – patients can connect to specialist physicians at different medical facilities that would otherwise be beyond their reach
- Basic healthcare - delivered to rural communities and sparsely populated areas
- Caregivers meeting cost effectively and easily to develop treatment plans and discuss cases
- Telementoring linking two or more medical professionals for interactive instruction during an actual patient procedure or for face-to-face mentoring without direct patient interaction
- The transmission of patient data via specialist medical peripherals while simultaneously examining the patient on a separate screen
Medical Video Conferencing & The Health Sector
An early adopter of video conferencing, the health sector’s traditional use for the technology was in teaching and training. While this limited usage was in part, a consequence of the poor visual and audio quality of early medical video conferencing systems, today’s solutions are vastly improved. The advent of high definition medical video conferencing technology has increased 
the adoption of video conferencing across numerous departments and institutions within the health sector.
High definition medical video conferencing enables natural communication in a real time rich media environment and offers a viable alternative to traditional face-to-face communication. Certainly within an IP connected environment, this technology allows true communication to take place without participants feeling that the aspect of human interaction is lost; this level of confidence is imperative in any instance where video conferencing is used but particularly within doctor/patient interactions.
Although the medium does have obvious limitations; for instance the inability to conduct a physical examination, videoconsultancy can be used to project high quality, high resolution images that physicians and other medical professionals can assess in the absence of being able to examine a patient or specimen in person. The use and value of the system will vary depending on the specific circumstances of the patient’s condition. Ultimately judgments on how this tool should be employed must be in the individual discretion of the physician supervising the patient’s care.
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