Collaboration- there’s that word again!
March 7, 2010 by admin
Filed under Healthcare Alerts, News & Events
Fast Company just released their top innovative companies of the year. #17 was Cisco Systems or should I say Cisco Systems + Collaborations. There is that word again. Collaboration will be the platform, the only platform that will successfully transform healthcare as we see it today. At Kissito Healthcare collaboration seems to be at our core these days. Imagine the collaborative possibilities in the post acute setting alone given Cisco’s current advances.
March 2010- fastcompany.com ( Cisco Systems #17 )
On November 9 of last year, Cisco Systems introduced an unheard-of 61 new technologies, all focused on collaboration. Tony Bates, the SVP behind them, says collaboration is a $34 billion market, and “by far the most exciting thing we’re working on. The world is bigger than an office and a bunch of cubes.” Among the new offerings: a social video system called Cisco Show and Share (YouTube for your office); Collaboration in Motion (WebEx for your iPhone); and, coming next year, the Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform (Facebook/Twitter meets WebEx for your business), which will help far-flung employees share a chat window, videos, wikis, docs, even a company-wide news feed. No longer content to be a plumber, Cisco is focusing on the network as the basis for innovation, which is bringing the company into closer competition with the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Tune in next year to see how that’s going.–end
1. Telemedicine- physicians consulting patients using secure video/web cam capabilities, physicians can see more patients.
2. Electronic Medical Records- integrated between acute and post acute settings (A Kissito currrent project)
3. Chat, video, wikis – nationwide access between facilities to assist in a diagnoses, patient/customer service recovery, archiving of best practices, etc…
4. Smart phone monitoring- physicians using smart phones to monitor vitals in real-time.
These are just a few off the top of my head. What are the possible collaborations you envision?
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