| Integrated solutions for delivering
on-demand patient |
and staff education, information, messaging and |
documentation
throughout the hospital system. |
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Interactive patient education programming is available on-demand 24 hours a day.
Advantages of the IVT system:
 perfect a hospital-wide system
which can evolve into health services at patient homes.
reduce costs of purchasing and
replacing video tapes
remove staff dependence on, and
eliminate staff time handling, VCR equipment
increase patient education
activities with reduced costs
automate documentation of patient
education activities for JCAHO and other agencies.
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Interface to ADM systems.
Since the TV in each patient room becomes an interface to the computer network
system, environmental services personnel are able to indicate that a room has been cleaned
or needs maintenance. Using the text interaction mode of the IVT system 3,000+ bed
sides can communicate with the IVT server Simultaneously! A very unique feature that
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Bandwidth n. - the limiting factor
of the Internet.
The DGA information system avoids the bandwidth barrier is by using a bandwidth segment on
the hospitals existing television cable system to network smart televisions and computer
systems. This unique topology allows more than 3,000 televisions to access
questionnaires, menuing and communication functions simultaneously. |
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Patient education programs delivered 24 hours a day.
Patients and staff may use IVT’s video on-demand feature to view
educational programming at times and locations that will provide the most benefit. Every
television will have full control over playing devices such as VCR’s, Video
"Juke Boxes", Laser Disk Players, CD-ROM, or Digital Video Servers. Each
television can provide Start/Stop, Fast Forward/Reverse, and Pause functions, with the
devices located in a secured central location. To assist meeting the requirements of
JCAHO, IVT can be used to both document the
delivery of educational video programming, and to develop program specific testing and
result reporting.
a sample of classic video
education titles available
New mothers get
preliminary information on the care of newborns.
Post-operative patients are shown proper cleaning and care for sutures.
Diabetic patient are educated on the lifestyle changed that accompany their condition.
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 Television
Character Mode adj. - a method of allowing more
that 3,000 "smart" televisions to communicate with IVC information system
controller simultaneously. This method does not use multimedia channels for
patient/staff communications.
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Multimedia -
The New Education Medium |
Delivered by TV cable or the Intranet |
While the Internet today is constrained by the limits of available bandwidth the DGA
Intranet, running over the hospital television cable plant, is relatively unbound by
telephone bandwidth constraints. This allows high performance, bandwidth intensive
information to be delivered directly to the patient television. Multimedia
productions (such as those produced with Macromedia's Director™) are displayed in the
web browser on the patients TV and patient mouse control is allowed via the TV remote
control.
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New multimedia productions to be deployed.
- Robby goes to the
Hospital
- Explore, The
Virtual Medical Center
- Orthopedic Knee Surgery
- Your Tonsil &
Adenoid Surgery,
Preoperative information for Tonsillectomy
- A
Family with Cancer
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Watch the 'News' area for content
additions to Select Broadcast.
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Interactive
Multimedia n. - an information delivery system that
utilizes a combination of computer techniques (video, text, audio, graphic representation)
in a method that allows the user to select the nature of information presented from the
digital information available.. |
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Staff Education
Deliver JCAHO
Education Faster!
* Deliver on-site group or
individual staff training.
* Providing the latest in
healthcare techniques.
* Update current treatment
methods to staff and doctors alike. |
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| * Eliminate staff time to
locate and set up VCR equipment. * Increase patient education activities.
* Automate patient education
documentation for JCAHO and regulatory agencies.
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JCAHO education
Coherence with JCAHO education standards is made
easier because ISE lets hospitals implement their own Post Educational Video Testing
Program that can be easily tailored or modified as required. Educators will not only
know and have documented that a patient or staff member viewed a particular video, but
also be able to determine and have documented how much of the educational program was
understood by the viewer.
Hospitals can create their own Patient or Quality Assurance Surveys, and follow up on
negative responses before patients are discharged, thereby increasing patient satisfaction
with the services received during their hospital stay.
On-Demand Education and Entertainment Programs can be easily implemented with program
selections changed as frequently as required without incurring additional costs of time
delays. On-Demand is of particular value to staff members who may now view mandatory
video programs at times and locations best suited to individual needs.
ISE allows hospitals to create many other applications that can take advantage of the two
way communications pathway to every IVT equipped television on the network. This
increases the quality of hospital services to both patients and staff members.
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Improve compliance with JCAHO & OSHA
- Improve services required by regulatory agencies by monitoring
their delivery.
- Improve services to meet increasing demands of the health care
industry.
- deliver the staff education necessary, from in-house resources, to
provide the highest quality of care.
- staff education availability around-the-clock .
- Drastically decrease training time and improve retention.
- Reduce staff training costs.
- Improve documentation with automated reporting for JCAHO and other
regulatory agencies.
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Security for Sensitive Transmissions
IVT does not rely on television channels for data communications. Channel based systems
allow any television that might be tuned to the channel over which data is being
transmitted, to view that data. Instead IVT sends digital data to a specific television or
group of televisions, thereby providing the level of security required for sensitive or
confidential data.
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