Facing pressure to improve the quality of care and cut medical treatment costs, the healthcare industry is focusing on internal efficiency and bottom-line growth with immediate results. Providers are solving problems associated with chronic labor shortages by using online collaboration tools, often increasing productivity by 15 percent or more.
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The High Cost of Nurses’ Communication Challenges
The survey reveals that easier, more effective communication and collaboration can positively impact health system performance—not only patient safety, but also clinician efficiency, healthcare costs, and patient satisfaction.
The Connected General Practitioner
Cisco IBSG examines the main processes, workflows, and ICT support required to deliver effective, team-based care for patients in community settings. Among the many findings, the report shows that ICT can have a major impact by increasing business efficiencies 25 percent while providing better patient care.
Aging Well in a Connected World
In this paper, IBSG explores how innovative deployment of new communication technologies can help improve health and social care, and extend the participation of older people in social and economic activities.
Improving Patient Care with Mobile Healthcare
Learn about the challenges facing healthcare providers and how mobile technology solutions can address these new demands.
Cisco Survey of Hospital Nurses Highlights Impact of Communications Challenges in Hospitals
The study sheds new light on the heavy toll that communication lapses take on patient care, clinical efficiency and the overall ability of nurses to do their job.
Connected Healthcare Consumers
Engaging Empowered Consumers in a Connected Health Partnership
Connected Health means more than just going online to find medical information. It is about connecting with others.
Looking to the Future
Cisco and the Discovery Channel take the lead in connecting people to tomorrow's reality. Tune into learn what healthcare services will be offered in the future, as demonstrated by the Cisco HealthPresence solution, developed by the Cisco IBSG healthcare practice.
Challenges in Healthcare Communications: How Technology Can Increase Efficiency, Safety, and Satisfaction
This paper discusses the current barriers to communicating effectively in healthcare and how the limitations of technologies used for communication contribute both to inefficiency and adverse events.
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Life Sciences
According to Datamonitor's analysis of industry data, the average cost of bringing a new medicine to market is $500 million, and
Cisco HealthPresence
Cisco HealthPresence is a new concept developed by the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) and prototyped at the Cisco Technology Centre.
