Thursday, February 21, 2008
MEDIVista™ Information and Entertainment System
Filed under: Informatics

Lincor Solutions, Ltd., a Dublin, Ireland firm, has signed an agreement with Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey, to implement the company's innovative MEDIVista™ information management / patient entertainment system "within its 397 hospital beds in the facility." So what can MEDIVista™ help with? Pretty much everything from medication management to digital entertainment, to showing patients their lung mets on the latest CT scan (uh, scary!).
Check out the range of options for patients and clinicians, taken from the product page at Lincor:

Lincor has developed and patented MEDIVista™ - a solution for the provision of bedside entertainment services and to enable secure, point of care access to clinical applications for medical professionals.MEDIVista™ Enterprise uses Lincor's core software platform to deliver, over IP, a range of services including:
Entertainment, Information and Education Services:
TV over IP
Radio over IP
Telephone over IP
Internet and e-mail
Video-on-Demand
Information Services
Patient Education through video and surveys
Dietary Management
Interactive online surveys
Web-based and network games
Audio Books
Access to and Delivery of Clinical Applications direct to the Point of Care:
Communication and delivery methods depend on the requirements of the individual hospital. Support is available for:
Citrix ICA Client/Server
Browser based interfaces System Management and Reporting:
A complete flexible billing system
Patient management
Database
Complete logging of all activity
Creation of a variety of management reports System Maintenance and Upgrade:
Remote management, diagnostics and configuration of the software system and upgrade of part or all of the software platform Content Management:
Decryption and distribution of films and other content over the hospital network
Product page: MEDIVista ...
Product brochure: Overview of the MEDIVistaTM solution (.pdf) ...
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Communication and delivery methods depend on the requirements of the individual hospital. Support is available for: