February 21, 2005—Siemens Communications, Inc., is introducing the HiPath Healthcare Solution HiMed product, which features a bedside television monitor providing patients with entertainment, communications and browser-based access to important educational information. For medical staff, the HiMed solution provides smart-card access to the clinical information system, at the patient’s bed side, according to the company.
The HiMed solution integrates a clinical point-of-entry computing device with a patient entertainment display terminal, without the need to deploy and maintain a dedicated multimedia PC workstation at each bed. For patients, the solution combines nurse call, telephone services, room lighting controls and entertainment (including television, video, Internet surfing, games and radio). When used by clinical staff, the system converts to a point-of-care access device to retrieve essential patient data. Access is controlled via personalized smart cards.
The HiMed solution integrates with communication solutions and IP platforms made by Siemens and other vendors. The HiMed solution can leverage existing health care cabling infrastructures and includes compact bedside monitors supported by a centralized media server with multiple gateways to local area networks (LANs), clinical information systems, telephony and broadcast media. System access through the bedside monitors is accessed via smart card security technology and helps healthcare organizations meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JACHO) regulations and requirements.
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