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Mobile & Wireless
New telehealth collaboration services for health care industry
Verizon launches new IT consulting and collaboration services
by TelecomEngine Newsdesk
Verizon is introducing Telehealth Collaboration Services. This new service aims to help health care providers remotely consult with patients and other providers, offer continuing medical education and training to medical professionals, and help health care administrators avoid travel through the use of collaborative technology.
As part of its consultancy, Verizon Business IT professionals work with health care organizations to assess their collaboration readiness, as well as design, implement and provide ongoing support for a broad range of Web and audio conferencing services, and video capabilities from desktop Web cams to high-definition and immersive video. Verizon's telehealth suggestions are tailored to each health care setting to deliver security, performance and reliability.
Telehealth is well-suited to helping health care organizations expand access to specialist services, such as mental health, cardiology and critical care experts - especially for patients and physicians in rural and remote areas. It can also enhance remote patient monitoring with near real-time access to patient medical information, enabling more frequent and rapid interventions.
"Health care providers increasingly are tapping the power of IT, and our telehealth solutions offer an effective way to meet a wide range of challenges, including the expansion of access to care, speeding diagnoses and driving efficiency," said Rajeev Kapoor, global managing director - Verizon Connected Healthcare. "These new IT capabilities will help hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices modernize the delivery of health care - a critical need throughout the U.S. health care system today."
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