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Web Conferencing in Health care and Medicine

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A conventional meeting involves a lot of preparation prior to the meeting and its success depends on several factors such as, presence of all the meeting participants in one room. With the advent of the web conferencing tools, the very idea of a meeting has changed. One of the industries that have benefited the most from this technology is the health care and medicine industry. With advancement in web meeting and conferencing technology, doctors are no longer limited in their ability to treat and interact with remotely located patients.

Since the health and medicine professionals are required to maintain confidentiality about their patient’s history and background, they look for conferencing solutions that are reliable and secure. Ease of use is another important factor since the patients should be able to use the web meeting software with ease.

1. TREATING PATIENTS REMOTELY:  A major advantage of online meetings is that you don’t have travel to remotely located patients as this would take a lot of time and time could be an issue depending on the severity of patient’s condition. Through a web based conference system a doctor can interact with patients via the web and evaluate their condition online. Using the audio conferencing tool, patients can provide details on their problem and the doctor can make analysis and diagnosis.
2. COMMUNICATING WITH PATIENTS REMOTELY: Patients who have internet access and a web conferencing tool can easily reach their doctors, regardless of where the doctor currently is. This way doctors can easily follow up with their patients even when they are on a move.
3. SHARING PATIENT REPORTS, PRESCRIPTIONS VIA WEB MEETINGS: When it comes to sharing patient reports, a doctor doesn’t have to organize a regular meeting but can simply resort to a web conferencing tool and conduct a virtual meeting. Over a web conference, the doctor can share reports, prescriptions and other related data.

Rehabilitation Systems, extensively uses web conferencing via Fuze Meeting to conduct online training for their cancer, heart failure, diabetes and pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Below are some of the benefits of web conferencing in the health care industry as quoted by Roger K Campbell, Director of Program Development at Rehabilitation Systems-

As the graying of America continues to increase, our day presses forward to develop and utilize increased efficiencies in health care through web conferencing and telemedicine, as the merger of technology and medicine.  The ability to smartly outreach and serve the advancing requirements of chronic disease is imperative for stability in a rapidly changing health care system.  As 2011 approaches and the fist of the baby boomer generation retire, our national health care resources will become strenuously taxed.  Yet, with this health care crisis, we see the emergence of bright minds, ways and solutions.  New web conferencing software developers, Fuze Meeting and medical scientists at Rehabilitation Systems, have created the merger of technology and medicine which represents a maximal online outreach of rehabilitation program development and rehabilitative health care for people suffering from cancer, heart failure, pulmonary and diabetes disorders. These advances in online training and conferencing are poised as a substantial cost containment solation to a burdened health care system.