Read the case studies below to learn how TELESYNERGY® has made a difference at our member institutions. Please check back to learn about how TELESYNERGY® can benefit you.
TELESYNERGY® case studies have been grouped into five different categories:
- Applied Imaging Applications
- Biomedical Applications
- Clinical Applications
- Educational Applications
- Mobile and Remote Applications
Applied Imaging Applications
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Clinical Applications
TELESYNERGY®: A Bridge Between Academic & Community Radiation Oncology Treatment Planning
Institution: New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC), Wilmington, NC
Date Posted: 2/22/06
Data from academic radiation oncology departments indicate potential to decrease treatment-related toxicity with the use of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for head and neck cancer. However, IMRT utilization in the community varies widely and results are largely unpublished. We report our initial experience with TELESYNERGY® as a method if interactive IMRT planning between a university and a distant regional hospital.
A Year of Telesynergy in Southeastern North Carolina
Institution: New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC), Wilmington, NC
Date Posted: 3/28/06
New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) received a grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate and overcome cancer disparities among underserved populations in Southeastern North Carolina, with the goal of improving accrual to clinical trials. In order to facilitate sharing of technological and clinical expertise, a telemedicine link was established between oncologists in the community at NHRMC and those in academia at the University of North Carolina (UNC).
Educational Applications
Teleconference with Liquat National Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan
Institution: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Date Posted:6/21/06
On Friday 21st April, 2006, the University of North Carolina (UNC) transmitted a teleconference lecture on “Nuclear Medicine in GI Malignancies”. Dr. Arif Sheikh, MD, Assistant Professor in Radiology and Internal Medicine delivered the talk to an audience of over 100 participants in the ‘Gastrointestinal Oncology Review & Consensus Meeting’ at the Liaquat National Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.
Mobile and Remote Applications
Mobile Applications: Sometimes it is both Appropriate and Necessary To Move a TELESYNERGY® System to a New Location rather than Move Personnel to the System Location
Institution: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at McKeesport, McKeesport, PA
Date Posted:2/26/07
For radiation oncology program applications involving the use of a videoconferencing system (e.g. a TELESYNERGY® ) many uses immediately come to mind including remote clinical consultations, videoconferencing for quality assurance, dosimetry issues, and distance learning programs for physicians. Multi-site professional seminars and symposiums, mentor, and professional education efforts with CME and CE credits can be facilitated. Community-based educational efforts, protocol-associated activities and patient navigator topics are also emphasized in the Cancer Disparities Research Program (CDRP) in clinical cancer research. The ability to safely and conveniently relocate the system to several locations may be extremely advantageous, particularly true for programs such as our Radiation Oncology Community Outreach Group (ROCOG) community outreach program. Unique to this ROCOG CDRP is a structure with five cooperating member facilities that are widely distributed over a large geographic area in western Pennsylvania. We present some selection and design considerations for a trailer-based mobility solution and summarize our initial results.
Expanding the Reach of TELESYNERGY®: Using a live video stream to extend the base of TELESYNERGY® Communications to those Without Videoconferencing Facilities
Institution: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at McKeesport, McKeesport, PA
Date Posted:2/26/07
The UPMC McKeesport Hospital's CDRP grant (the Radiation Oncology Community Outreach or ROCOG program) was designed and funded as a multi-site program with five participating institutions, each with a diverse service area and differing minority populations. Assuring optimal use of the TELESYNERGY® at each of our partner locations not only implied the ability to periodically relocate the system, but also required developing a method to extend assess to TELESYNERGY® system (TS) programs and educational events outward to all facilities, staff, and community areas of interest. These potential program viewers included physicians, who were unable because of distance or time, to personally attend TELESYNERGY® sessions. These potential viewers also included community groups, churches, health advocates, patient's families and friends and others as targets for distance learning opportunities. The difficulty, however, was that few of these facilities or individuals had available videoconferencing equipment, yet all physicians and many individuals or groups in minority communities had access to the web via their computers. We therefore evaluated options to Extend the capabilities of a TS to a much larger group of interested parties without significant costs, provided they had basic computers with web access.
