Polycom - Collaborative Voice, Video and Web Solutions for Telemedicine and Healthcare

Polycom is a global leader in collaborative voice, video and web solutions for telemedicine and healthcare.

Polycom provides collaboration solutions that are scalable, open standards based, and provide the best user experience possible. Polycom is working with our Open Collaboration Network partners — Avaya, BroadSoft, HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, and Siemens — to deliver healthcare applications that work across different network environments. Polycom is committed to supporting the healthcare industry with the best people, quality products and the most comprehensive services.

Polycom solutions are used to implement successful telemedicine and healthcare programs, which allow patients to be treated at a distance avoiding the cost of travel, decreasing the time away from their home community, and allowing an expert in a medical field to be available across the miles. Examples include the Telestroke Program at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Seton Family Hospitals and the Tele-Psychiatry Program at the South Carolina Department of Mental Health — all delivering expert care from a distance.

Telemedicine systems for the medical home model

Polycom has the voice and video solutions and industry experts to assist in your program whether you are looking for telestroke, telemental health, tele-primary care, community health center support, distance learning or a way to connect with the entire healthcare team at a distance to support the medical home model.

Medical video conferencing system

Connect anywhere with live video using products like Polycom® CMA™ desktop and the HDX® 4000. Physicians and nurses are able to control the distant patient side camera to zoom in and examine patients. Psychiatrists can observe the smallest tear forming in their patient's eyes. Neurologists can run their patients through a remote stroke exam. Finally, practitioners can use Polycom products to deliver or receive continuing medical education from their home or office.

Telemedicine system for healthcare communications

Community health centers, rural hospitals and hospital centers of excellence can utilize Polycom's Intelligent Core to record, stream, hold multipoint video calls, and provide a safe, reliable collaborative video environment.

Voice and video communication system for patients and specialists

Polycom breaks down distance barriers and facilitates communication between patients, practitioners, specialists, and healthcare administrators utilizing collaborative standards-based voice and video solutions. The Polycom® Practitioner Cart® HDX® mobile healthcare solution for the patient side sends live high-definition video, audio, and PC images such as the EHR to the far side specialist who uses Polycom desktop video solutions. The specialist can easily control the distant patient side camera, share their PC content, and access browser-based applications like EMR/EHR, PACS, and lab reports.

Polycom Grant Assistance Program

The Polycom Grant Assistance Program (PGAP) is a free service that helps medical and nursing schools, hospitals, community health clinics, academic health centers, and other healthcare organizations identify grant opportunities. The PGAP assists these organizations in the grant application process helping secure funding to support telemedicine, medical continuing education and medical administration projects.

The PGAP team has proven experience working with federal, state, local and foundation funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many others.

Through PGAP, healthcare organizations have access to a team of grant researchers, grant writers, and technology experts that provide customized, scalable support based on specific project needs.

Healthcare organizations also have access to the Polycom Grant Ready Assessment and Navigational Tool, a free self-assessment tool based on the most common grant evaluative criteria, helping organizations improve their chances for a successful grant application.

For more information about the Polycom Grant Assistance Program, and for other tools and resources, visit Polycom's website.