Telepresence for tele-health (1)

How much video-conferencing is of interest to tele-medecine? How much hype versus usefulness?

The video-conference market is exploding with offerings. High-definition, low-cost, mobile are some of the current trends to name a few. RealityFrontier offers a tele-health solution through its founding partner CoroWare.

This first article in a series of three is describing our capabilities for tele-health. A second article will show the challenges that all vendors are still facing with the technology. A third and last article will outline the technology landscape and opportunities for product designers.

Video-conferencing on the desktop is affordable. It allows several specialists and care-givers to get together at the same time. The quality of the HD video is good enough to visualize medical images. Furthermore the video communication is secure. Getting all of these features bundled together would be truly unique on the market. The solution exists and is called VidyoHealth.

CoroWare ^(*) has been delivering a video-conferencing solution based on VidyoTechnology for two years. Joshua Sherman, Telepresence manager with CoroWare describes his work for tele-medecine:

“ I have been deploying VidyoTechnology for several geographically distributed medical practices. Being able to use wireless devices made a real difference to my customers. But what really moved things forward was the confidentiality of the communication. The solution is secured. ”

 _{(*) CoroWare is a founding partner of RealityFrontier.} 

CoroWare’s telepresence solution is a SaaS product available through a subscription. The advantage is that patients do not need to acquire specialized hardware. They are using their home computer and the VidyoHealth one-button solution. Medical practicioners are able to re-use their existing video-conferencing equipment.  

RealityFrontier is exploring new ways to deliver tele-health solutions and is referring to VidyoHealth as a standard of quality for video-conferencing needs in tele-health. One of the areas that RealityFrontier is working on is the automation of video content analysis.

More information

• Interested parties may contact Joshua by e-mail for a demonstration.
• Please contact Lloyd for custom tele-health implementations.
• CoroWare is a hosted service provider of Vidyo Technology. Check the VidyoHealth datasheets for tele-medecine and tele-health.
• Check the CoroCall subscription that bundles all in one low-cost solution.

Next articles in the series

• Challenges faced by telepresence vendors in the tele-health market (upcoming).
• Technology landscape and opportunities for product designers (upcoming).