By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist
Modern medicine has brought some amazing technological advances. But at the end of the day, the most powerful medical tool remains the old-fashioned one: expert clinicians with the knowledge to evaluate, monitor and care for patients.
The problem: how do you get medical expertise to all of the places it’s needed? One growing answer: Telemedicine.
Tags: broadband, emergency, healthcare, hospitals, robotics, telemedicine, video
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More than two months have passed since Superstorm Sandy devastated communities and lives in the eastern United States and the Caribbean.
But Jim Killoran, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Westchester, still shows up at 6 a.m. every day to lead dozens of volunteers who have come to the Rockaways in Queens, New York, to help families clean, repair, and rebuild their homes.
Jim Killoran of Habitat for Humanity of Westchester surveys damage in Breezy Point section of the Rockaways.
Tags: breezy point, Cisco, emergency, habitat for humanity, hurricane, relief, rockaways, Sandy, superstorm, westchester
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A funny thing happened to me on the way to the fair. The Rockwell automation Fair that is.The Pilot comes on the intercom and says something like:
“Hi, it’s the captain here. I want to tell you that we can’t get the flaps into the right position. We need number 15 and we can only get to 14.” (or he said something like that). “We’ve tried a few times and it doesn’t want to move.”
So we (the passengers) are all thinking: “What does that mean – are we going down?” Most of us don’t pilot planes so we don’t know how serious the situation is. We all agreed in our seating row that it was ‘TMI’ -- Too Much Information? I think he realized that, because he then said words to the effect of:
Tags: airplane, airport, Automation Fair, booth, chicago, Chicago o'hare, Cisco, Converged Plantwide Ethernet, crash, emergency, Fluke, industrial ethernet, Information overload, machine builders, Manufacturing, McCormick Center, McCormick., OEM, Panduit, Real Time, Rockwell, Rockwell Automation Fair, rockwell networking
If someone in your corporate building makes an emergency call, will responders know where to go? Years ago a phone was always in one location, and the phone number was as good as an address for identifying where you were. With IP telephony features for mobility, and with software phones that travel with your laptop, it can be hard to identify the physical location where a call is coming from.
At Cisco, we use several approaches to providing the right location information for emergency response. And we’ve learned how a simple portion of our dial plan can have a dramatic and painful impact on our Emergency Response system. You may find these ideas helpful for configuring emergency calling and response capabilities at your own sites.
Tags: 911, 991, 999, coc, coc-collaboration, e911, emergency, emergency response, UC, unified communications, Voice, voip
