HealthStation 2004 - Mobile Telemedicine Workstation

Preliminary Information

BENEFITS

• High quality – high resolution video and crisp clear audio, provides for natural interaction
• Easy to use – peripheral equipment such as scopes and light sources can be easily connected
• Secure – lockable consolidated storage keeps medical devices safe and secure
• Open PC platform - supports Windows XP or Windows 2000-based third party medical applications; for example EMR and imaging software.
• User friendly – display mounted on a radial arm tilts in all directions for ease of positioning
• Powerful – physicians and care givers delivering medical services have dramatically increased access to specialists at any location
• Flexible – ideal for chronic and acute medical care

Medical professionals can share all types of patient records while viewing the patient at the same time.  The application sharing, snapshot and slideshow facilities let you see both the patient and the content all the time with TV-quality images and CD-like audio. 

Expressly designed to be a powerful collaboration tool, the HealthStation 2004 incorporates the best support for both people interaction and content sharing.

With HealthStation 2004, specialised expertise is delivered to the patient without the need to transport the patient to the specialist.  HealthStation 2004 may also be used for quick emergency room diagnosis, remote observation of patients in isolation, high-risk areas or secure locations and to deliver educational presentations to medical students. 

Its flexible design provides ample connections for any medical peripheral that has a composite video output.  For example, stethoscopes, Tran-telephonic ECG/EKG devices, X-Ray film digitiser and vital signs monitor, just to name a few.

The unit is mobile and can be moved from location to location.  The flat panel display is located on a flexible radial arm allowing the medical professional to easily maneuver it into the best position. 

Features:

The overall cabinet is of aluminium construction with stainless-steel accessories.

Measurements are as follows:

• Height – 52”

• Width – 26”

• Depth – 26”

Starting at the bottom, the unit has four ball-bearing mounted casters that swivel in all directions. Two of the front wheels feature a locking mechanism to hold the system in place when in use.

The bottom cabinet features dual-locking doors on the front. Opening the cabinets reveals a lower shelf for the PC/CODEC combination as well as UPS and a medically-approved isolation transformer.  An upper shelf is provided for a VCR and/or a subwoofer/amplifier combination for the PC audio. Full venting along the entire bottom cabinet allows proper cooling of electronic components. The rear section of the bottom cabinet has a locking door that comes off, permitting full access to the rear of all electronics in the cabinet. There is also a pair of cable wrap stanchions for the electrical cable and network wires.

Above the bottom cabinet is a pullout drawer for the keyboard and microphone storage. The unit front folds down, allowing access to the keyboard. The drawer is lockable as well.

There is a stainless steel shelf about the keyboard drawer that has a triple articulating arm with the LCD monitor and camera mounted on it. This allows the monitor/camera combination to be swung out, up, down, tilted left or right, up or down for maximum viewing by both the patient and the far-end physician-consultant.

On the left hand side of the cabinet, above the stainless steel shelf, is a small patch-panel that permits users to access auxiliary video, audio and data connections.

The top cabinet features two shelves and a single lockable cabinet door located on the right side of the unit. Medical instrumentation may be placed on these shelves for easy access. Wiring access holes are present for running audio, video, and power. The left side of the top has two stainless steel handles for steering the unit as it is being rolled around.

Standard Equipment:

The system is equipped as standard with the following:

PC-Based Video Conferencing System – The PC sits in the bottom of the cabinet and has ample ventilation for continued operation.  See below for full specification of the videoconferencing system.

UPS – Un-interruptible Power Supply supplies clean continuous power in the event of a temporary power failure to PC, monitor, audio components

Wireless keyboard - for ease of use. Sits in keyboard drawer but can be removed for operation away from cabinet.

LCD Monitor – a high-quality, XGA resolution, 17" LCD monitor is mounted on the arm with a Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera attached.

Speakers – Multimedia speakers with a subwoofer can be used or integrated into the LCD monitor .

Isolation Transformer – to ensure electrical compliance with medical standards

Pan/Tilt/Zoom Camera – high-quality, 1 CCD operation, motorized pan/ tilt and 12X zoom, autofocus and FECC (far-end camera control) capability.  Operates down to very low illumination levels.

 Optional Equipment:

Additional Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera on articulating arm - this camera is suitable for positioning closer to the patient for viewing body parts, skin lesions or wounds and may be controlled either by a local practitioner or remotely by the specialist.  It may also be used to zoom into x-ray film on a light box, for example.

Electronic Medical Records - 3rd-party EMR client software can be acquired and loaded onto the PC for use and sharing during the conference.

Imaging Software - 3rd-party imaging software can be acquired and loaded onto the PC for use and sharing during the conference.

VCR – for recording sessions or playing back tapes

Electronic Stethoscope – For auscultation for heart and breath sounds. This system can transmit the audio on either independent phone lines or via an IP auxiliary port.

Medical Camera – For viewing body parts and orifices. Comes with an Otoscope attachment standard. Other attachments available include oral-scope, derm-scope, and naso-scope. Additional attachments allow the system to tie into Slit-lamps, microscopes, etc.

Document Camera – for viewing documents such as X-Rays, notes, books, cardio-grams, etc.

Streaming media and Video-on-Demand - particularly valuable in teaching hospitals, the picture and sound from the conference can be streamed around any IP network at very high quality so that the consultation may be viewed by any number of (permitted) observers at any PC on the network.

These streams may also be digitally recorded for later viewing anywhere on the IP network.