Advocate Health Care provides surgeons and staff with immediate access to each other without traveling.

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Challenge

Integrate an immersive video solution into the current infrastructure

• Collaborate more effectively with geographically dispersed associates
• Reduce travel time, and improve employee productivity to better serve patients
• Enable quicker assimilation of new acquisition targets

Solution

Advocate Health Care turned to Cisco Services for help in designing a unique telepresence solution that provided a lifelike experience that easily replaced traditional in-person meetings.

• Cisco Remote Management Services
• Cisco Video Experience Services
• Cisco TelePresence 1300 and 500 systems enable face-to-face video collaboration
• Cisco Services customize unique TelePresence solution for boardroom and provide on-demand technical support
• Cisco Digital Signs offer consistent, cost-effective messaging across entire healthcare network

Results

A customized TelePresence environment that saves time and improves employee interactions and relationships.

• Accelerated executive decision making with more frequent face-to-face communication
• Achieved ROI after single high-impact TelePresence meeting by identifying opportunities to better manage medical device costs
• Shared best practices across organization and maximized specialists' expertise