Tag Archives: Collaboration

Polycom Video Collaboration Helps NHS Cumbria & Lancashire Cardiac and Stroke Network (CSNLC) Speed Treatment and Save Lives

June 07, 2012     No comments

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 17 January 2012

Polycom Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today announced that the NHS Cumbria & Lancashire Cardiac and Stroke Network ( CSNLC) is saving the lives of stroke victims by connecting patients with remote doctors in the time-critical early intervention stage of stroke using Polycom RealPresence high-definition video collaboration solutions. Polycom video solutions include mobile Practitioner carts* in each of the six Acute Trusts in Cumbria and Lancashire and personal video collaboration software* running on laptops in each of the consulting physician?s homes.

The need for an around the clock stroke service was the key driver behind the project. The combined NHS Trusts of Lancashire & Cumbria selected Polycom RealPresence video solutions as part of a new state of the art ?telestroke? service. Installed at the end of July 2011, the service has already positively impacted the treatment of 26 stroke patients in Cumbria and Lancashire by providing access to Thrombolysis treatment around the clock. ?In addition to huge patient benefits, the service is anticipated to save Lancashire & Cumbria NHS Trusts over ?8million a year,? said Kathy Blacker, Director of the CSNLC.

With Polycom video collaboration, patients get round-the-clock, on-demand, face-to-face access to expert specialist care ? no matter where the patients or the consulting doctors are located. Fifteen consultant stroke physicians are on call from home covering the service out of hours and supporting clinicians in each of the eight hospitals, servicing approximately 2.2 million people across the region. Polycom video collaboration software for laptops are used by the 15 consulting stroke physicians that are on call from their homes. Each consultant has a laptop equipped with Polycom videoconferencing software, which they use to connect to any of the six hospitals via a Polycom Practitioner Cart* at the patient?s bedside. Controlling a camera remotely, the specialist can see the detailed clinical examination performed by the clinician at the bedside. This results in more effective and productive use of scarce medical expertise through video, faster treatment times and improved outcomes for patients.

After reviewing the requirements for the area and considering all options, the CSNLC selected MultiSense Communications, a Polycom Healthcare Solution Provider, to deploy Polycom video solutions, along with other key technology partners including Virgin Media and Imerja to support the service. Funding was made available by the NHS to cover the cost of the equipment which included high-speed broadband technology to remotely connect eight Polycom Practitioner carts to each of the eight hospitals.

Dr. Mark O?Donnell, Stroke Consultant at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Clinical Lead for the CSNLC said: ?If a patient arrives in hospital with a stroke, outside the normal working day, a Telestroke consultation will then be commenced. The Polycom Practitioner cart contains a screen so the patient can see the consultant remotely and a camera for the consultant to view the patient. The consultant is then able to perform an examination with the help of the team in the hospital to decide whether the symptoms experienced are due to a stroke and whether Thrombolysis (the use of drugs to break up or dissolve blood clots) treatment is appropriate.?

?Thrombolysis treatment,? added Dr. O?Donnell, can only be given to patients within four hours of the onset of their stroke ? so time is crucial, and Telestroke helps improve the speed of patient diagnosis. We are using Polycom video collaboration technology to take the stroke specialists to the patient, rather than moving the patient long distances, around rural areas, to where the specialists work. In an acute stroke, time is of the essence and the sooner treatments can be provided, the better.?

Notes to Editors

To see the full video on how Polycom is helping NHS Cumbria and Lancashire to save lives, please visit http://www.polycom.co.uk/industry_view/healthcare

The six Trusts participating in the Telestroke Network and providing consultants for the service are:

????Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
????East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
????Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
????Southport and Ormskirk Foundation Trust
????University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
????North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

Of the Trusts involved, Telestroke will be at the following eight hospital sites:

????Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle
????West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven;
????Furness General Hospital, Barrow;
????Royal Lancaster Infirmary;
????Blackpool Victoria Hospital;
????Royal Preston Hospital;
????Royal Blackburn Hospital
????Southport General Hospital..

*Polycom? Practitioner Cart? HDX? Unit

Polycom Practitioner Cart mobile healthcare solutions bring high definition video, audio and image sharing to medical professionals and patients no matter where they are located

**Polycom? Video Collaboration Software for laptops

Polycom? video collaboration software for laptops delivers HD-quality audio, video, and content sharing to users of Microsoft? Windows? OS. Its intuitive and simplified interface lets users search directories for colleagues and click a name to call, discuss projects, and share virtually anything from their desktop with remote participants and teams.

About Polycom

Polycom is the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform. The RealPresence Platform interoperates with the broadest range of business, mobile, and social applications and devices. More than 400,000 organizations trust Polycom solutions to collaborate and meet face-to-face from any location for more productive and effective engagement with colleagues, partners, customers, and prospects. Polycom, together with its broad partner ecosystem, provides customers with the best TCO, scalability, and security ? on-premises, hosted, or cloud delivered. Visit http://www.polycom.co.uk or connect with Polycom on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

NOTE: The product plans, specifications and descriptions herein are provided for information only and subject to change without notice, and are provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

? 2012 Polycom, Inc. All rights reserved. POLYCOM?, the Polycom ?Triangles? logo and the names and marks associated with Polycom?s products are trademarks and/or service marks of Polycom, Inc. and are registered and/or common law marks in the United States and various other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Contacts:????????

Sarah Brambley ????????

Polycom, Inc. (UK)

+44 (0)1753 723130

Sarah.Brambley(at)polycom(dot)com

# # #





Read More

NHS Surrey?s Stroke Service Uses Polycom Video Collaboration Solutions to Save Lives Through Remote Treatment

June 05, 2012     No comments

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 25 January 2012

Polycom Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today reported that the Telestroke Network Project at NHS Surrey, which was set up across five different trusts in September 2011, is already helping to save the lives of stroke victims by using Polycom high-definition video collaboration solutions to bring remote patients together face-to-face with medical professionals for vital early intervention.

The new telemedicine system gives the hospitals? stroke teams fast access to stroke consultant experts at any time of the day or night ? even when the consultant isn?t on-site. Getting specialist clinical advice quickly is essential so that on-site physicians can make treatment decisions quickly.

?There is only a very limited window between seeing the onset of symptoms and being able to administer thrombolysis (clot busting drug), so the time saved due to the newly installed telestroke system means that vital time is saved and increases significantly the potential of patients making a full recovery and going on to lead a normal life much more rapidly. It can even mean the difference between life and death, and we are already seeing positive results from the system?, said Colin Lee, Senior Project Manager, NHS Surrey. “Rather than waste valuable time waiting for a consultant to get to a patient, now a patient can have a CT scan, be seen by triage, assessed by a stroke consultant and have a recommendation in under an hour through Polycom HD video solutions ? all while the consultant is at his or her home.?

Supported by the Surrey Stroke and Heart Network and funded for ?250,000 by the NHS South of England, the Polycom video collaboration solution is making it possible for patients to get round-the-clock specialist, consultant-led care with faster treatment times and improved outcomes for patients. The Polycom video collaboration solution for the Telestroke Network Project includes two mobile Polycom Practitioner carts for each of the five hospitals, plus Polycom video collaboration software on laptops for each of nine consultant stroke physicians that are on call from their homes. Using Polycom video on laptops, the consultants connect to any of the Polycom Practitioner Carts in the five hospitals, right at the patient?s bedside. Controlling a camera remotely, the specialist can see the detailed clinical examination performed by the clinician at the bedside.

?Making 24/7 thrombolysis for stroke patients available at Surrey?s hospitals has been the focus of everyone in the Surrey Heart and Stroke Network for the past three years. We are all delighted that this has now become a reality,? said Felicity Dennis, Manager of the Surrey Heart and Stroke Network.

?The Polycom Practitioner cart is a simple but game-changing solution, which gives healthcare providers the means through video collaboration to treat more patients far more flexibly and cost-effectively,? said Andrew Graley, director of healthcare, Polycom EMEA. ?Patients are benefiting from on-demand access to scarce stroke experts, making it easier for family and caregivers to cope with and treat this life-threatening condition.?

To learn more about Polycom?s healthcare solutions and other customer examples, please visit http://www.polycom.co.uk/industry_view/healthcare

The Surrey Hospitals in the Telestroke network are:


????Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
????Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
????Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
????Ashford and St Peter?s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and
????Epsom Hospital Part of Epsom and St Helier University Hospital NHS Trust

*Polycom? Practitioner Cart? HDX? Unit

Polycom Practitioner Cart mobile healthcare solutions bring high-definition video, audio, and image sharing to medical professionals and patients no matter where they are located.

**Polycom? Video Collaboration Software for Laptops

Polycom video collaboration software for laptops delivers HD-quality audio, video, and content sharing to users. Its intuitive and simplified interface lets users search directories for colleagues and click a name to call, discuss projects, and share virtually anything from their desktop with remote participants and teams.

About Polycom

Polycom is the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform. The RealPresence Platform interoperates with the broadest range of business, mobile, and social applications and devices. More than 400,000 organizations trust Polycom solutions to collaborate and meet face-to-face from any location for more productive and effective engagement with colleagues, partners, customers, and prospects. Polycom, together with its broad partner ecosystem, provides customers with the best TCO, scalability, and security ? on-premises, hosted, or cloud delivered. Visit http://www.polycom.eu or connect with Polycom on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

NOTE: The product plans, specifications and descriptions herein are provided for information only and subject to change without notice, and are provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

? 2012 Polycom, Inc. All rights reserved. POLYCOM?, the Polycom ?Triangles? logo and the names and marks associated with Polycom?s products are trademarks and/or service marks of Polycom, Inc. and are registered and/or common law marks in the United States and various other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

# # #





Read More

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Announces Collaboration with Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to Discover New Medicines for Alzheimer?s Disease and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

April 24, 2012     No comments

La Jolla, Calif. (Vocus/PRWEB) January 17, 2011

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) has entered into a collaboration with Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (OMJPI) to discover compounds for Alzheimer?s disease and major psychiatric disorders. Under the agreement, multi-disciplinary teams from Sanford-Burnham and OMJPI will collaborate to identify and validate new targets for drug discovery and will seek compounds suitable for lead optimization and further development by OMJPI.

OMJPI gains exclusive access for a three-year term to a multi-disciplinary team of world-class scientists and a translational infrastructure dedicated to finding new approaches to treating patients with devastating neurological and psychiatric conditions.

For Sanford-Burnham, the collaboration with researchers at a major pharmaceutical company will help the Institute achieve its mission of translating high-impact science into important new therapies. ?This represents the first of what we expect to be a series of thematic collaborations that focus our tremendous scientific and translational firepower on major unmet medical problems. Working in concert with strong partners, we can bridge the gap between early- and late-stage drug development,? said Dr. John Reed, CEO of Sanford-Burnham.

Sanford-Burnham will also receive funding including: upfront and yearly access fees, funding of discovery research in the field, milestone payments and royalties for successfully developed products. A joint steering committee will oversee the collaboration, which includes a drug discovery team funded by OMJPI in the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics (CPCCG) at Sanford-Burnham.

CPCCG is Sanford-Burnham?s state-of-the-art screening facility established by the National Institutes of Health as part of a national effort to accelerate the rate of commercialization of basic research by generating small molecule probes that can be used to develop a pipeline of drugs to treat unmet medical needs. Sanford-Burnham?s drug discovery capabilities include: ultra high-throughput screening; high content screening; phenotypic screening; and target deconvolution technologies. CPCCG is led and staffed by industry-trained professionals who work closely with Sanford-Burnham investigators and industry collaborators to assist them in translating their scientific findings into actionable projects for new drug discovery.

?This agreement sets the stage for Sanford-Burnham to fully leverage the drug discovery infrastructure the Institute has put into place over the last five years,? said Dr. Michael Jackson, Vice President, Drug Discovery and Development at Sanford-Burnham.

Alzheimer?s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks of daily living. Recent estimates from the Alzheimer?s Association put the number of people in the U.S. with Alzheimer?s at 5.3 million. While four drugs that temporarily improve cognitive function in Alzheimer?s patients are on the market, currently, there is no treatment available to stop the progression of Alzheimer?s disease.

Major psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia, are a huge burden on society. These conditions have their onset in adolescence or early adulthood, and impair overall health as well as the ability to learn, work and function in society. According to the National Institute of Mental Health 2.3 million adult Americans suffer from bipolar disorder, a condition associated with profound alterations of mood. Similar to other chronic health conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease, bipolar disorder and other major psychiatric illnesses must be treated and managed throughout a person?s life.

About Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute is dedicated to discovering the fundamental molecular causes of disease and devising the innovative therapies of tomorrow. Sanford-Burnham, with operations in California and Florida, is one of the fastest-growing research institutes in the country. The Institute ranks among the top independent research institutions nationally for NIH grant funding and among the top organizations worldwide for its research impact. From 1999 ? 2009, Sanford-Burnham ranked #1 worldwide among all types of organizations in the fields of biology and biochemistry for the impact of its research publications, defined by citations per publication, according to the Institute for Scientific Information. According to government statistics, Sanford-Burnham ranks #2 nationally among all organizations in capital efficiency of generating patents, defined by the number of patents issued per grant dollars awarded.

Sanford-Burnham utilizes a unique, collaborative approach to medical research and has established major research programs in cancer, neurodegeneration, diabetes, and infectious, inflammatory, and childhood diseases. The Institute is especially known for its world-class capabilities in stem cell research and drug discovery technologies. Sanford-Burnham is a nonprofit public benefit corporation. For more information, please visit http://www.sanfordburnham.org.

Media Contacts:

Josh Baxt????????????????????????????????????

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute????????????????

jbaxt(at)sanfordburnham(dot)org????????????????????????????

858-795-5236 office????????????????????????????????

858-414-4770 cell????????????????????????????????

Pam Lord

Canale Communications

pam(at)canalecomm(dot)com

619-849-6003 office

619-459-1629 cell

# # #





Read More
Powered by WordPress | Designed by: best suv | Thanks to toyota suv, infiniti suv and lexus suv