New Approach to Hospital TV Includes Communications Access
Editor: Here's a press release about a great new product that may
really make a difference in the quality of a person's hospital stay. The
press release mentions that the new device includes the capability to
provide remote interpreting. LifeLinks could easily include remote CART
in the repertoire of this new device, if enough people bugged them about
it (hint, hint;-). I think it sounds like a great idea!
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From the newsroom of the PR Web, Monday, September 8, 2003 .....
LIFELINKS: At Home In the Hospital. LifeLinks installs innovative new
internet based interpreting system in 350 bed Holy Name Hospital,
Teaneck, New Jersey, providing sign language and 150 other languages to
the patient's bedside.
A little company with revolutionary technology is causing a stir in
the healthcare and communications industries and the hospitals are
gobbling it up. LifeLinks LLC provides and enables interpreting services
and sign language interpreting at the bedside in a live, interactive
videoconference between the patient and the interpreter while also
offering the hospitals a source of revenue and a replacement for the
"clunky" TV hanging from the ceiling.
(Hackensack, N.J., Sept. 8, 2003) - For the first time ever, IP
(Internet protocol) can be used to provide crystal clear 2-way
interactive viewing of a distant interpreter, relative, physician,
classroom, church service, wedding, etc. Hospitals are switching from
plain old TV to bedside touch-screen 15 inch monitors, which not only
are provided at no cost to them, but also provide a source of revenue.
In addition, the interpreting and sign-language services reduce
lawsuits, patient complaints of not understanding procedures and forms,
and enhance compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
(equality for disabled persons) and JCAHO guidelines for language
accommodation.
Each person has his/her own private flat panel monitor, which also
provides filtered internet access and movies via cable. Nurses can view
the patient and the patient can see the nurse when the call button is
pressed, providing extra security and enhanced nurse retention and
efficiency. No other company provides this broad range of services with
no financial obligation on the part of the hospital.
LifeLinks has offices in Newark and Hackensack, New Jersey as well as
New York City. LifeLinks exclusively uses the managed internet backbone
of IDT Corporation, to which it attributes its superior quality.
Media contact: Eliane Uscher Associates 718-884-4400 or 888-465-HEAL
