MADISON, Wis., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. , a leader in automated rich media communications technology, today announced that Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE) is using Mediasite(TM) and its packaged rich media hosting services to help healthcare providers around the world learn the latest advancements in the treatment of debilitating infectious diseases, like HIV and SARS.
As part of its program the CCGHE webcasts its latest medical and research discoveries to healthcare providers in remote global locations, like India, Thailand and Africa. By communicating findings from Johns Hopkins’s physicians both live and on-demand over the Web, Johns Hopkins is helping clinicians, nurses and aides treat debilitating diseases more quickly and effectively, prevent further spread of contagious illnesses and, most importantly, save lives.
Using Mediasite to Communicate Critical Information across Time Zones
Countries with the largest burdens of HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases have the fewest number of trained health care workers. The primary goal of the CCGHE is to provide long-term clinical training through distance education programs that give these healthcare providers access to the expertise of Johns Hopkins clinical faculty.
Using Sonic Foundry’s portable Mediasite ML Rich Media Recorder and content hosting and management services, the CCGHE was able to mediasite critical training content within a matter of weeks -- not months, as it had experienced before with an in-house solution.
“Sonic Foundry’s turnkey approach enabled us to roll out our distance education program quickly and without the burden of hosting the content ourselves,” said Dr. Robert Bollinger, who spearheads Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education and is a renowned infectious disease specialist. “It has been so successful that we are now using it for sharing information with physicians all over the globe and have just recently launched a new eLearning program for our own remote faculty and staff.”
The Power of Rich Media -- Integrated Audio, Video and Graphical Content over the Web
Using Mediasite, the CCGHE is able to conduct live, interactive rich media webcast presentations by medical professionals within Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases. Each grand round session includes three case presentations. Participants interact with presenters by sending questions in real time and are able to respond to presenter queries through polling capabilities. Each session is archived for convenient on-demand viewing and future reference. In addition, in situations when the Center conducts training via its video conferencing system, it also mediasites the training to provide live and on-demand desktop access to the entire meeting, including all audio/video and visual components.
Expanding Mediasite throughout the Organization
Since first introduced to Mediasite last year, Johns Hopkins is continuing its rich media transformation, while expanding applications that further advance its research, education and clinical services leadership position throughout the world.
For instance, at Johns Hopkins Medicine Interactive, Assistant Director Alexander Nason is developing a centralized portal for online learning content for Johns Hopkins Medical faculty, staff and medical students. He will use Mediasite to capture faculty video conference presentations delivered around the globe. Nason says that because Mediasite has proven so valuable, other groups at JH have begun to identify other areas where it can be utilized.
“There are so many different areas where we can grow using Mediasite,” said Dr. Bollinger. “As an institution at the forefront of medical and scientific research, having a communications tool like this can make the difference in sharing our knowledge in a much bigger way, allowing us to improve so many more lives,” he explained. “We have only just begun to tap its capabilities.”
Center for Clinical Global Health Education
The Johns Hopkins CCGHE is a center of excellence supporting clinical care and research training in resource-limited settings that complements and builds upon the extensive ongoing international, collaborative research and training programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Johns Hopkins CCGHE addresses important global health challenges by providing long-term clinical education programs that will offer health care providers in resource-limited settings access to the expertise and experience of The Johns Hopkins University clinical faculty.
About Sonic Foundry(R), Inc.
Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is a technology leader in the emerging rich media communications marketplace, providing enterprise solutions and services that link an information driven world. Sonic Foundry is changing the way organizations communicate via the Web and how people around the globe receive vital information needed for work, professional advancement, safety and education. The company’s integrated Webcasting and Web presentation solutions are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, education institutions and government agencies for a variety of critical communication needs. Sonic Foundry is based in Madison, Wis. For more information about Sonic Foundry, visit the company’s Website at www.sonicfoundry.com.
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