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Polycom® Healthcare Solutions

Help reduce costs while maximizing productivity

Polycom offers the best way for Healthcare providers to increase their level of patient care, control costs, address staffing shortages, serve rural patients and keep pace with the competition. Only Polycom offers a portfolio of end-to-end, scalable, secure, award-winning Unified Collaborative (UC) solutions.

  • Increase productivity of healthcare professionals
  • Strengthen referral patterns
  • Effectively educate hospital staff, clinicians and the community
  • Extend patient care and expertise to remote areas
  • Improve patient care with mobility solutions


This technology allows us to provide services on a domestic and international level that was impossible in the past.

- Frank Brady, Co-Founder and Developer Medical Missions for Children


Healthcare Applications


  • Healthcare Administration


  • Medical Education


  • Telemedicine / Telehealth


  • Improving Patient Care

Healthcare Administration

Polycom healthcare solutions provide improved communications and collaboration for better decision-making, efficiency, cost-savings and productivity. Desktop solutions enable healthcare professionals to connect with colleagues for visually enabled collaboration from anywhere. The healthcare professional can collaborate visually for more productive meetings and better project management.

  • More effective planning and administrative meetings with point-and-click sharing of content
  • Connect visually for board meetings avoiding unnecessary travel expenses
  • Collaborate on marketing and sales initiatives more effectively
  • Support Human Resources

Polycom Products for Healthcare Administration

Polycom Converged Management Application™ (CMA™) 5000/4000 and Polycom CMA Desktop Solutions – Centrally manage and deploy visual communication across your entire organization for administrative functions.

Polycom HDX® 4000 Series – The HDX 4000 high definition desktop video conferencing system doubles as your desktop monitor for viewing browser-based images like spreadsheets, presentations, or recorded videos.

Polycom VVX® 1500 Business Media Phones – The VVX 1500 business media phones enable one-touch visual communications with patients, colleagues, and standards-based video conferencing systems from the desktop, improving patient outcomes and saving time and money.

Polycom Wi-Fi Communications – SpectraLink wireless telephone systems give healthcare staff the mobility to perform their job more effectively from anywhere within the facility. Hospital workers have immediate access to each other and to patients.

Polycom DECT Communications – The KIRK 70-Handset Series combines high demands for hygiene with enhanced responsiveness and personal safety, and is specially designed for environments where mobility and communication are critical factors for saving lives.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – offer healthcare institutions expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Medical Education

Whether knowledge transfer takes place at the bedside, in the operating room, in the classroom, or at a remote site, Polycom video and audio conferencing technology brings the classroom to you. Desktop solutions enable healthcare professionals to use their PCs and Polycom video conferencing for high definition video calls with colleagues from anywhere. The physician or practitioner can easily control the far-end camera, share content live over video.

  • Attend video CME events from your home office or desktop
  • Conduct video grand rounds sharing PC content, live patient encounters, or recorded procedures
  • Video connect to nursing schools for up to date training and medical information
  • Conduct administrative training and medical education using live or streaming video
  • Attend or deliver disaster preparedness training over your Polycom collaborative voice and video network



Polycom Products for Medical Education

Polycom Converged Management Application™ (CMA™) 5000/4000 and Polycom CMA Desktop Solutions – Centrally manage and deploy visual communication across your entire organization—and provide PC access to educational sessions from anywhere.

Polycom HDX® 4000 Series – The HDX 4000 high definition, standards-based desktop video conferencing system supports high definition video calls and is your desktop monitor for viewing browser-based images like EHR or for viewing live educational sessions.

Polycom RSS™ 2000 Servers – The RSS 2000 server allows users to start recording from any standards based video conferencing endpoint, using simple commands such as "start recording" and "stop recording." Make your own videos from your desktop.

Polycom Video Media Center™ (VMC™) 1000 Solution – The Polycom VMC solution is a complete video content management solution that links the worlds of video conferencing and video streaming to support medical education from your desktop or educational center

Polycom VVX® 1500 Business Media Phones – The VVX 1500 business media phones enable one-touch visual communications with patients, colleagues, and standards-based video conferencing systems from the desktop, improving patient outcomes and saving time and money.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – offer healthcare institutions expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Polycom Video Content Management Solutions – Polycom Video Content Management solutions enable healthcare organizations to create, manage and deliver live and on-demand streaming video, including captured video conference sessions,and deliver video-linked integrated testing and certification online.

Telemedicine / Telehealth

Polycom breaks down distance barriers and facilitates communication between patients, practitioners, specialists, and healthcare administrators utilizing collaborative standards based voice and video solutions. For example, the Polycom Practitioner Cart® HDX® mobile healthcare solution for the patient side sends live high definition video, audio, and PC images such as the EHR to the far side specialist who uses Polycom desktop video solutions. The specialist can easily control the distant patient side camera, share their PC content, and access browser-based applications like EMR/EHR, PACS, and lab reports.

  • Live video collaboration between community health centers, hospitals, primary care physicians, specialists and patients supports the Medical Home model
  • Physicians can provide their expertise from home or anywhere to deliver specialty services like TeleStroke, TeleMental Health, and Primary Care
  • Correctional Telehealth helps avoid costly, unnecessary and risky transports to hospital
  • Specialists control the far end camera for better examinations



Polycom Products for Telemedicine

Polycom Practitioner Cart® HDX® Unit – The Practitioner Cart is specifically designed for mobile telehealth applications. Medical peripheral devices can be connected for live images to be shared of a patient's throat, ears, or skin, for example.

Polycom Converged Management Application™ (CMA™) 5000/4000 and Polycom CMA Desktop Solutions – Centrally manage and deploy visual communication across your entire organization including administrators, educators, and practitioners in their home offices.

Polycom HDX® 4000 Series – The HDX 4000 high definition, standards-based desktop video conferencing system supports high definition video calls and is your desktop monitor for viewing browser-based images like EHR or for viewing live telehealth sessions.

Polycom VVX® 1500 Business Media Phones – The VVX 1500 business media phones enable one-touch visual communications with patients, colleagues, and standards-based video conferencing systems from the desktop, improving patient outcomes and saving time and money.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – offer healthcare institutions expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Improving Patient Care

Using Polycom's mobility products, you can improve patient care, help nurses be more efficient, better utilize the operating room, locate crash carts more effectively, and support a safer hospital environment. Polycom's wireless telephone systems give healthcare staff mobility, allowing them to perform their job more effectively and from anywhere within the facility. Hospital workers have immediate access to each other, and to their patients. Wireless telephone systems can integrate with any messaging system eliminating the need for separate radio pagers for healthcare staff. Some integration examples include:

  • Nurse call
  • Real Time Location Systems (RTLS)
  • Telemetry
  • Patient monitoring



Polycom Products for Improving Patient Care

Polycom Wi-Fi Communications – SpectraLink wireless telephone systems give healthcare staff mobility to perform their job more effectively from anywhere within the facility. Hospital workers have immediate access to each other, and to patients.

Polycom DECT Communications – KIRK wireless telephones are designed and developed with the demanding user in mind. With focus on functionality, design, and quality we continuously aim at making better handsets.

Polycom's Open Application Interface (OAI) and KIRK SIO Application Interface – These Application Interfaces allow third-party applications to send text messages to the Polycom wireless telephone's display and provides for user response through the handset's keypad. Polycom offers an OAI for Wi-Fi systems and the KIRK SIO for DECT Communications.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – offer healthcare institutions expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

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