Case One
Latest Telecom Technologies Feed Crucial Information to Physicians in CHA
Discussion Questions
1. Why are high-performance telecommunications technologies important to the medical profession? " High-performance telecommunications technologies " are needed to provide physicians capability to get information as well as health check descriptions like MRIs rapidly with in any location serve patients protecting lives.
In most of today’s state-of-the-art medical facilities, medical information and images are delivered to desktop, notebook, and handheld PCs through local area networks, both wired and wirelessly, using systems like CHA’s Picture Archive and Communications Systems (PACS) and Computerized
Physician Order Entry (CPOE). …show more content…
“As network manager, what I like best about this network is that it allows us to spend more time moving forward and less time worrying about what’s already installed,” says Peterson.
2. How does CHA use VoIP to provide better service to patients? CHA with the use of VoIP offer voice swap over its data set-up and helps resolve issues that it faces with study of language. Around Boston,
15 primary and 43 secondary languages are spoken. CHA needs to communicate with its patients in all of these languages. It can do so by using its VoIP system to connect interpreters with patients and healthcare workers. CHA even provides videoconferencing for more effective communication. CHA also uses wireless VoIP handsets to allow its employees to maintain voice communications with each other and on-site patients over its local network. Some CHA physicians clip Vocera communications badges to their lapel so they can speak the name of the person they want to contact, and Vocera makes the connection. The Vocera badges use VoIP over the local wireless network. They can also track the location …show more content…
Critical Thinking Questions :
1. How can each of five Enterprise 2.0 applications used by P&G help its employees be more effective and efficient ?
Microsoft live communicator provides easy and quick interaction between employees which will greatly reduce any communication delays
Live Meeting caters web conferencing to efficiently interact and build professional relationships between employees from different locations
Share point helps to maintain a controlled/centralized knowledge repository for employees, when in need of critical information.
Connect beam helps employees to share valuable web page bookmarks , documents and articles with others which will aid productivity
Corporate social networking site helps employees find expert knowledge and also to build professional relationships
2. Compare and Contrast email, IM and blogs for tools for effective communication ?
Emails are the most standard and official means of communication in practice. It provides a static communication feature to propagate information to huge list of