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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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, especially primary care physicians, to reduce healthcare costs and inefficiencies while creating healthier, more satisfied consumers.
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
Technology can be applied in various ways to facilitate communication in the highly collaborative and mobile environment that is healthcare. 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
Healthcare Concept
Cisco HealthPresence
Cisco HealthPresence is a new concept developed by the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) and prototyped at the Cisco Technology Centre. Cisco HealthPresence is based on market-ready Advanced Technologies.
