The document discusses expanding healthcare through enhanced collaboration. It describes Cisco's healthcare team and customers in the sector. It identifies opportunities for video in healthcare administration, care at a distance, language interpretation, and security. The document also discusses emerging trends, wasted communication costs in healthcare, priority IT initiatives, consumerization of health, mobile access demands, architecture for anywhere access, and Cisco's VX Clinical Assistant product.
15 billion new networked devices by 2015 (VNI)According to the Cisco Connected World Technology Report, more than three of every four employees have multiple devices, and one in three employees globally uses at least three devices for work. The number of shipped tablets is set to jump from 16.1 million units (of which around one million were bought by businesses) in 2010, to 147.2 million in 2015, thereby representing around a third of all online US consumers, according to Forrester.56% of US information workers spend time working outside the office (Forrester)
[OJ]What makes us different in the marketplace is that Telepresence is just one part of a the industries most comprehensive collaboration portolfio. Cisco’s overarching objective is to create a unified user experience across our entire collaboration portfolio from IM to web conferencing to telepresence – we want to deliver the highest quality and most consistent experience to all users.As our customers accelerate their use of Telepresence and video, it becomes critical that they be able to leverage existing investment in collaboration technologies and insure that Telepresence is seamessly integrated into the traditional ways that people communicate and collaborate. Cisco is integrating Telepresence into our broader collaboration portfolio and layering video on top of our customers existing voice systems…sharing a common platform for call control.In addition, as we drive more pervasive deployments of Telepresence and video we can provide our customers a complete video architecture for your organization. Our Medianet capabilities help ensure that your network not only delivers a high-quality video experience to the end user when needed, but also helps ensure that your network is ready for onrushing video demands and applications. Built-in intelligence offers adaptability and predictability, reliably and transparently provides high-quality media experiences to any device on the network. With medianet, your network optimizes traffic flow and bandwidth utilization, while reducing the effect of network congestion. And it does all this while lowering the complexity and risk associated with video rollouts. [OJ finishes and turns over to Snorre]