Mike Haymaker

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This month, Focus, Cisco’s monthly online publication, takes a look at the latest Connected Health trends and technology news.  Data-driven decisions, better specialized care and improved patient experiences are transforming healthcare, and I encourage you to read about it in this month’s issue of Focus. Highlights include: The Internet of Everything in Healthcare The Big Data Opportunity […]

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Carlos Dominguez, Cisco Senior Vice-President in the Office of the Chairman and CEO, will present the luncheon keynote address on October 30 at the Boston Children’s Hospital Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards.  Held over two days, the Boston Children’s Hospital Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards is designed to address unmet needs, solve problems […]

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Join us on Wednesday, October 15 at 11:00 am PST/2:00 pm EST to hear about telehealth innovations at Baptist Heath South Florida. The winner of an American Hospital Association 2014 Most Wired Innovator Award for IT projects, Baptist Health’s e-Pharmacy initiative is a shining example of transformation in care delivery. Conceived as an initiative to […]

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This is an exciting week for Cisco and for the Health IT industry at large.  Two big industry events are taking plan this week: Epic’s Users’ Group Meeting and National Health IT Week. Epic’s 2014 Users’ Group Meeting: Down on the Farm If you are planning to attend Epic’s 2014 Users’ Group Meeting from September […]

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Have you read the latest Cisco Connected Health newsletter?  In an effort to bring you relevant stories about the positive impacts of health IT, this issue features real-world implementations including: University of Virginia Center for Telehealth Provides Timely Access to Specialty Medical Services Using video and remote medical  equipment, UVA Center for Telehealth  provides basic […]

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Acute care in a hospital setting is no longer the norm.  The continuum of care focus has shifted to seamless, integrated care plans designed around the patient and their needs instead of the setting.  Sg2* recently caught up with Barbara Casey, Senior Director of Health Care Business Transformation at Cisco, to discuss trends in healthcare […]

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The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual Meeting and Tradeshow is fast approaching.  If you are planning to attend ATA 2014 from May 17-20 in Baltimore, be sure to visit the Cisco booth to see products and solutions that connect patients and care teams so they can easily engage anytime from anywhere. Cisco will have a […]

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We hope you were able to join us and several hundred of your peers, for the 7th Annual Connected Health Summit at HIMSS14.  It was a half-day meeting featuring sessions by healthcare thought-leaders who discussed ways to transform the delivery of care through: Continuous patient engagement (pre-, point-of, post-care) Accelerating the movement of clinical data […]

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We are looking forward to participating in the HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition from February 24-26 in Orlando, FL.  If you are planning to attend HIMSS14, be sure to visit the Cisco booth (#1453) to discover solutions for mobility, collaboration, telehealth, and patient engagement designed to help your organization deliver safe and affordable care.  Highlights […]

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Want to earn 3.25 continuing education (CE) hours while learning first-hand about successful patient engagement strategies?  Attend the 7th Annual Community for Connected Health Summit on February 25 during the HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition and earn 3.25 CE units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of CPHIMS or CAHIMS. Customers from healthcare organizations […]

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Cisco’s new Extended Care Solution enables patient engagement and care team collaboration at any time and from anywhere including home, office and other remote locations.  Cisco Extended Care is a new browser-based health and wellness collaboration solution platform that features ad hoc and scheduled video consults, secure messaging, customizable pre-appointment questionnaires, a video library platform and […]

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On February 25, Cisco will sponsor the 7th Annual Community for Connected Health Summit during the HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition. This year’s agenda promises to be the best one ever! Customers from healthcare organizations can attend the Summit at no additional cost by registering for the HIMSS14 Annual Conference at the same time and […]

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Barbara Casey, Senior Executive Director for Healthcare Business Transformation at Cisco, recently wrote about challenges that patients face when navigating the continuum of care in our currently disconnected care settings.  In an effort to assist patients, technology companies are beginning to shift their focus to take advantage of network technology to personalize the patient experience. […]

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Every year for the last seven years, Cisco and its Santa Connection program have brought video collaboration technologies to hospitals across North America for child patients to virtually connect with Santa Claus in the North Pole. The children get the opportunity to ask Santa what they want for Christmas either by video chatting on iPads […]

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December is here and that means that Santa Claus is putting the final touches on his list and checking it twice. For the seventh year, Cisco is teaming up with hospitals across the Americas to provide children who are hospitalized during the holidays the opportunity to show Santa what good little boys and girls they’ve […]

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Join Cisco, Intel, and other leading healthcare and  technology organizations for a series of leadership webcasts on October 23-24 that address the top challenges facing healthcare and IT professionals today.  The third annual Intel Health & Life Sciences Innovation Summit will focus on relevant topics such as care networking, how mobility expands care from the […]

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No longer does your organization need to incur the sometimes unreimbursed cost of hiring one-on-one patient sitters, dedicating staff that can be better utilized elsewhere, or imposing on distressed family members to sit by their family member’s bedside around the clock. With Cisco Virtual Patient Observation, centralized staff can observe multiple high-risk patients over your […]

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If you visited the Cisco booth at last week’s ATA 2013 conference, you might have had the opportunity to speak onsite with a member of the Cisco Grants Strategy Team.  But if you didn’t, we want you to know that the Cisco Grants Strategy Team is still available to help. We find that many organizations […]

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 If you find yourself in Austin, Texas next week, you’ll want to swing by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Meeting and Tradeshow which runs from May 5-7.  Growing annually by leaps and bounds, ATA 2013 is expected to be their biggest and best conference yet, with over 6000 attendees.  The ATA 2013 exhibit hall will […]

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Given your interest in innovative and transformative healthcare solutions, we encourage you to register for the Cisco Community for Connected Health.  You’ll receive our quarterly newsletter which highlights real-life customer success stories and promotional offers as well as invitations to healthcare webcasts and events.  You’ll also be the first to know about our annual Community […]

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Given your interest in healthcare innovation and transformation, we’re pleased to offer you access to TEDMED Live 2013 right from your desktop. From April 16-19, TEDMED 2013 will feature ten 90-minute sessions from industry thought leaders focused on health, information, and technology. You can get complimentary access to either: Watch during the event Watch TEDMED […]

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Now that HIMSS13 is behind us, we want to say thank you to everyone who attended the Sixth Annual Connected Health Summit and to all of our customers and partners who visited our booth in the exhibit hall.  Cisco Community for Connected Health Summit Watch the video replays as experts from North Shore LIJ Health […]

We are excited to be participating in the HIMSS13 Annual Conference & Exhibition from March 4-6 in New Orleans.  If you are going to HIMSS13, make plans now to visit the Cisco booth #2329 to see solutions to streamline clinical workflows, facilitate BYOD, enable care-at-a-distance, and improve the patient experience.  Some of the featured demos […]

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On March 4, Cisco will sponsor the 6th Annual Community for Connected Health Summit during the HIMSS13 Annual Conference & Exhibition.  This year’s agenda promises to be the best one ever! The Summit is open to all HIMSS13 attendees at no additional cost; however, registration is required as seating is limited. This is a one day […]

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Cisco is pleased to be participating in the World Congress Telehealth Executive Summit on January 28-29 in San Diego, CA.  This two-day conference targeted at senior executives in payer and provider organizations will feature insightful discussions on virtual care models for specialty services, primary care, follow ups and continuous monitoring. One of the highlight sessions […]