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Cisco announces the availability of the Cisco HealthPresence platform at HIMSS 2010 , will take place from March 1 - 4, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia World Congress Centre.

At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS 10 ) Conference in Atlanta today, Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco HealthPresence platform. Cisco HealthPresence is an advanced, care-at-a-distance technology platform that allows patients to connect with doctors and clinicians for health care consultations in ways never before possible. Traditional telemedicine or telehealth approaches have focused mostly on the problem of physical access to medical care. Cisco HealthPresence addresses four additional key health care delivery challenges: 

• Capacity (the scarcity and productivity of clinical expertise)
• Collaboration (one patient with many clinicians, many providers with many providers, and many patients with many patients)
• Information exchange (the ability of participants to share and view vital health information)
• Personalization (engaging patients in ways that make them more active participants in consults)

Cisco HealthPresence extends and expands access to health services and quality care.

HealthPresence creates new, streamlined clinical encounters by integrating two technology innovations: Cisco TelePresence and Cisco Unified Communications. With high-definition video, clear audio and connected medical devices, Cisco HealthPresence supports collaboration and personalization rarely accomplished in traditional face-to-face consultations. Patients in HealthPresence encounters can see images and listen to sounds from a variety of diagnostic devices, such as digital stethoscopes, actively participating with what clinicians see and hear.

Source: Cisco

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