3 Keys to Collaboration in Healthcare and the Technology that Can Help
How does a healthcare professional begin to meet the growing need for technology across clinical settings? Start with these three important considerations, and see how CDW and our partners at Poly can help.
Healthcare is far more than patients visiting doctors’ offices.
A patient’s location doesn’t always align with a provider’s, yet the need for high quality care does not diminish with distance. Clinicians need the latest technology to provide the best patient care without travel.
To achieve this, healthcare providers need to stay current with their skills, collaborate with colleagues and manage their facilities. They will find significant efficiencies in all these functions through audio and videoconferencing technology.
How does a healthcare professional begin to meet the growing need for technology across clinical settings? Start with these three important considerations and see how CDW and our partners at Poly can help.
1. Find the best form factor(s) for the point-of-care
Not all clinical settings have the same needs. The right solution for the outpatient clinic is different from what’s needed at the inpatient bedside, the ICU, the ED or the post-acute setting. Our collaboration partners at Poly have an array of solutions that help you meet the specific needs for different clinical environments across the continuum of care.
2. Set up collaboration-optimized shared spaces
Group collaboration settings are crucial in healthcare. Poly is committed to ensuring an equitable collaboration experience with easy-to-use, state-of-the-art conferencing equipment that works seamlessly with your organization’s standard platforms.
3. Provide personal solutions for professional collaboration
Wherever your providers, administrators and staff are located, they need to look and sound professional. Poly’s plug-and-play personal devices feature premium audio that eliminates distractions and high-performance cameras that compensate for lighting imbalances.
How to tackle telehealth challenges with technology
Particularly in times of crisis, telemedicine is the preferred method to isolate healthy patients from potential risks. For patients with symptoms, video collaboration provides easy access to doctors and nurses. Urgent/specialty care facilities can accommodate walk-in and scheduled patients by connecting them with the appropriate provider for efficient, effective care. Time-critical decisions can be made far more quickly when consultations are made over a HD video link.
The right technology allows healthcare professionals to connect securely and easily with patients from their own computer, personal device or a videoconferencing system. HD audio and video allows doctors and patients to have a productive, in-person experience.
Moreover, clinicians become more productive. Without having to travel to various locations, they are able to see more patients. Poly solutions help connect patients, practitioners, specialists and healthcare administrators.
Communicate clearly with Poly Savi headsets
From the ambulance to a cardiac cath lab or from the ED to a training room, clinical teams need to be able to communicate during procedures reliably and clearly.
The Savi line of DECT headsets provide hands-free communication between a team of four. It may be a surgeon, scrub nurse, RN and technician all working together, or any application that requires a small group to remain in communication. Each person is provided with a headset that can be worn for extended periods of time, linked together through one single base station. When a team member speaks, the rest of the team can hear them and respond from over 500 feet away.
- If the application needs more than four participants, additional members can join via an audio bridge.
- Up to 13 hours of battery life allows you to get through the procedure or shift on a single charge.
- Savi models have a roaming range up to 580 ft that allows team members to freely move about without fear of losing their connection.
- Even in noisy environments, the Savi delivers incredible audio by eliminating the background noises and only allowing for voice to be transmitted.
Make video interactions more natural with Poly Studio R30
Poly’s high-quality, noise-free audio and video solutions can help you provide patients in remote areas with consistent, reliable telehealth options that feel equal to in-person care.
From routine patient care and screening to follow-up appointments, Poly technology can transform the efficiency and quality of your patient services. Poly devices make it easier to schedule appointments, monitor health and train employees, maintaining intimate relationships while still protecting privacy and trust.
With the Poly Studio R30 USB video bar, you’ll enjoy rich audio that filters out background noise, so each patient is heard clearly. Poly DirectorAI smart camera framing works behind the scenes to keep you framed how you want – whether that's switching between people speaking, or a closeup view of everyone in the room.
The included monitor clamp easily attaches and adjusts to a variety of monitors, offering optimal positioning for your videoconferencing needs. Plug in the power and connect your PC via USB and you are ready to go.