Verizon Introduces New Health Care Managed Service Packages
Verizon recently launched a range of health care managed hosting services that allow for long-distance video consultations as well as other forms of video and audio collaboration. The Verizon Telehealth Collaboration Services caters to three sectors in the health-care value chain – video-based training and education for medical professionals, clinical collaborations between patients and doctors, and for video meetings conducted among health care administrators in order to reduce the travel costs.
Back in January, Verizon formally rolled out the Connected Health Care vertical consultancy and managed services arm. Since then, the company has been launching a variety of services such as security-focused solutions.
The Verizon health team is currently composed of more than 500 sales people and 12 business staff. The staff is composed of business development executives and solution architects that are targeting opportunities in the health care industry, says Nancy Green from Verizon’s principle health care.
The new services are specifically designed to suit the needs of remote and rural tele-health applications like tele-stroke. This entails having a specialist look into a patient through a live video session in order to determine whether it’s safe to wait for the doctor to arrive at the site or the patient already requires immediate attention.
For the collaboration services, the company is going to make them available along with other videoconferencing systems provided by other vendors, according to the client hospital’s needs, explains Green. These systems can range from the large room-sized systems to the laptop-based solutions.
Come next year, Verizon Connected Health Care is also set to launch additional solutions. It will also concentrate on moving capabilities and services into a network cloud in order to provide clients with true managed services as opposed to applications that are run in the client’s premises.