Australian Telehealth Network Launches its Video Consultation Services in Partnership with BCS Global and Vidyo
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Australian Telehealth Network Launches its Video Consultation Services in Partnership with BCS Global and Vidyo
London, United Kingdom and Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) December 13, 2011
Australian Telehealth Network (ATN), today denoted the launch of its services in partnership with BCS Global Networks Limited, a conducting world-wide provider of managed videoconferencing, telepresence, and optical collaboration services; and Vidyo Inc., the first company to present personal telepresence.
In announcing the partnership Mark Barnett, Executive Director of ATN said “The partnership was established to supply Australian aged care providers and physicians with the world’s better and most economic video conferencing technology. Aged care providers across the country have tremendous difficulties in accessing GP services in a seasonable manner, which sometimes has grievous and harmful outcomes for residents. ATN’s partnership with the world’s most advanced and cost effectual video conference technology allows us to supply a cash flow electropositive service to aged care providers and physicians correct from day one taking into account the Government’s $ 6,000 On-Board Incentive to help the set-up of telehealth.”
The ATN service was stimulated by the Commonwealth Government’s $ 620 million Telehealth initiative trained at increasing the uptake of telehealth among physician and aged care providers and physicians and hospitals in distant and regional Australia. ATN brings collectively aged care providers, General Practitioners and Specialists into one network, facilitating practical face-to-face sharing of expertise and information from within the Australian network. In 2012, it is planned for the service to be launched in New Zealand as a way of growing the power and influence of the network.
After an extended global search for a proven video consultation technology that would be suitable for the Australian market, ATN chose BCS Global and Vidyo to implement and manage their video consultation services. The technology operates complete low bandwidth with low latency resulting in a high select visual experience capable of assisting diagnosis.
BCS Global provides managed video collaboration services for various industry verticals, including the telehealth segment. The BCS Global managed video service enables ATN to provide a reliable and secure visual collaboration platform for patients, nurses, doctors and healthcare providers. Users of the service have the ability to conduct telepresence-quality face-to-face interactions anytime, anywhere over the Internet using existent laptops, smart-phones or tablets – making it a very affordable solution for patients and health care providers.
“We are very excited to partner with ATN to deliver and manage their video collaboration platform,” said Clive Sawkins, CEO at BCS Global. “The inclusion of video collaboration adds a new paradigm to telehealth; but also poses challenges around usability, support, reliability, security and interoperability. Leveraging on the partnership with Vidyo, BCS Global offers a cloud-based managed video collaboration service that addresses all these challenges and offers a world class service that delivers a superior user experience that is easy-to-use, reliable and supported 24×7 globally.”
“Vidyo’s platform is used today in some of the big telemedicine networks in the world and we’re very pleased to partner with the Australian Telehealth Network and BCS Global to present our Vidyo for Healthcare™ platform to physicians and elder care providers,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO of Vidyo, Inc. “Vidyo provides scale, quality and workflow optimization to provide immediate and low-priced natural communication services between hospitals, physician’s offices, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes and directly into patient’s homes.”
The Vidyo Difference
The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, highly flexible and can be easily customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs. The patented VidyoRouter™ architecture introduces Adaptive Video Layering™, which dynamically optimizes the video for each endpoint leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based compression technology and Vidyo’s IP. Adaptive Video Layering eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency rate matching thus enabling natural, affordable, high-quality video to work over the Internet, LTE, 3G and 4G networks. The platform allows users to quickly leverage the latest hardware innovations and new consumer devices, making it uniquely attractive to partners.
About The Australian Telehealth Network
The Australian Telehealth Network was established to tie Aged Care Providers, General Practitioners and Specialists via ‘world’s best’ video collaboration within one national network of members. Using procuring, reliable user friendly access to diagnostic open services, ATNs platform delivers a range of supported interoperable features designed for the healthcare environment. For further information visit the ATN website: http://www.austtelehealth.com.au/ or email: info(at)austtelehealth.com.au or Facebook: facebook.com/AustralianTelehealthNetwork or Twitter @austtelehealth
About BCS Global
BCS Global Networks Limited is a taking world-wide provider of managed videoconferencing, telepresence and ocular collaboration services. BCS Global’s innovative videoconferencing and telepresence solutions equip existent-time, fertile interactive video collaboration allowing participants to link seamlessly from their desktops, home offices, boardrooms or telepresence suites. The company owns a full deployed Global B2B Video Exchange, which enables users across the world to encounter outright regardless of their video system, network provider or type of connection. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in New York, Toronto, Shanghai and Hong Kong, BCS Global provides comprehensive managed video services and a 24x7x365 worldwide inhabit video and audio aid-desk support to its customers across the globe in dissimilar industry verticals, and major telecom carriers and their customers globally. For more information, delight visit http://www.bcsglobal.com or tie with BCS Global on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/BCSGlobal), LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/company/bcs-global-networks-limited), and @BCSGlobal on Twitter
About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling instinctive, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smartphones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and low-cost cloud-established broadcast solutions. Learn more at http://www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or dawdle us on Google+ and @vidyo on Twitter.
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