Innovative Health Technologies - Cindy Christy, Alcatel-Lucent
Cindy Christy, President, North America, Alcatel-Lucent, an infrastructure equipment provider to large carriers and enterprises, talks about Alcatel-Lucent’s initiatives in the health care space.
Hospitals are businesses that have the same drivers as other businesses - cost reduction, increased revenue, and ultimately improved profitability. If technology can save a nurse or a doctor 20 minutes per day so they can be more productive, the doctor can contribute more to the bottom line by spending more quality time with a patient, seeing another patient or doing another test. Hospitals are upgrading to new technology and new networks such as optical networks and large speed data packet networks that have a lower cost structure and over time are more efficient.
Upgrades to voicemail and other systems with much more functionality than in the past improves productivity and the cost structure of the hospital.
As an example, Alcatel-Lucent is helping the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to upgrade the entire network, including installing a metro-optical backbone, which will allow University of Pittsburgh to leverage voice, data and video. They are upgrading the voicemail system and packet system. There will be a hospital wide wifi system, so the hospital can provide better services to doctors, nurses and, ultimately, patients.
In the telemedicine space, remote applications are some of the first applications to provide value to the hospital system. For example, visiting nurses, who visit patients in the home, never historically had access to the Internet. They now have wireless access so they can send information back to the hospital such as heart rate, blood pressure and other information about the patient. Improved optical networks and packet technology help remote hospitals get information to a metropolitan hospital that may have more resources.
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