TeleMedicine

CARE @ A DISTANCE

Provide “care at a distance” utilizing conferencing technologies that seamlessly integrate video, audio and data for administrative, educational, clinical and research applications. VideoConferencing... is a way for individuals and groups to see and to talk to one another as well as share data in "real-time" utilizing some form of technology.

At BIDMC, we have PictureTel/Polycom products that can transmit information over a digital network. Currently the equipment can use either ISDN lines or the LAN (Video-over-IP) to link doctors, patients, administrators and staffs. As the Internet becomes more robust, we will share these live, interactive voice, video and data conversations using the WAN.

TeleMedicine...is videoconferencing for specific medical applications like Interpreters CareLink that connects language interpreters with patients who do not speak English or are hearing impaired.

mediaservices@bidmc.harvard.edu