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Unified Communications: December 17, 2009 eNewsletter
December 17, 2009

Glowpoint, MMC Worldwide Form Telepresence, Video Conferencing Partnership

By Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor

Glowpoint, Inc., a provider managed services for telepresence and video conferencing solutions, and MMC Worldwide, a provider of high-quality video production and post-production services for global healthcare and education communities, announced the companies formed a partnership to offer enhanced video services to the medical and pharmaceutical industries.




Under the multi-year deal, MMCW will combine its new Polycom certification and distribution status with Glowpoint’s (News - Alert) managed services and global video exchange service, called the Telepresence interExchange Network. With it, the companies can offer telepresence and video conferencing interconnectivity to doctors and hospitals worldwide. 

“By combining MMCW's Polycom (News - Alert) technologies with Glowpoint’s managed and exchange services, this partnership has the potential to greatly enhance the quality and cost benefits of remote training, and knowledge sharing, within the global medical community,” MMCW President John Riehl said in a statement.

As part of the partnership, the companies will support a MMCW’s charity, Medical Missions for Children, an organization that provides diagnostic and treatment consultations for critically-ill children in 108 countries. Glowpoint and MMCW will enhance the services of Medical Missions for Children’s global TV station, the Medical Broadcasting Channel, which broadcasts medical symposia and educational programs to 300,000 healthcare institutions worldwide via satellite and Internet technologies. 

Medical Missions for Children owns and operates a high-definition video production facility – the MMC-Panasonic (News - Alert) HDTV Studios – and the Giggles Children’s Theater, at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J.

According to market-research firm Datamonitor, the U.S. telemedicine market is expected to grow to more than $6 billion by 2012 from $900 million in 2007.
Organizations that use video telemedicine can benefit greatly from the technology, GlowPoint officials said. Such benefits include greater access to medical expertise, a more efficient diagnosis, reduced costs for care, increased frequency of patient/physician contact, shorter hospital stays, reduced rates of hospitalization, improved internal staff communications, collaboration, and productivity and improved training and certification for healthcare professionals.

Joseph Laezza (News - Alert), Glowpoint president and co-CEO, said telepresence and video conferencing can dramatically improve medical training and knowledge sharing for doctors and healthcare institutions, as well as governmental ministries of health. 

“Glowpoint is proud to be in a position to offer the technology, video transport, management, and interorganizational services that can greatly enhance the way medicine is practiced around the globe,” he said in a statement.


Amy Tierney is a Web editor for TMCnet, covering business communications Her areas of focus include conferencing, SIP, Fax over IP, unified communications and telepresence. Amy also writes about education and healthcare technology, overseeing production of e-Newsletters on those topics as well as communications solutions and UC. To read more of Amy's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney

(source: http://hdvoice.tmcnet.com/topics/unified-communications/articles/71213-glowpoint-mmc-worldwide-form-telepresence-video-conferencing-partnership.htm)








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