Just before the Jewish New Year, Houston Neal from Software Advice pinged me, asking for my opinion about a post he wrote - Seven Great Applications for IP-PBXs in the Medical Practice. In this post he outlines a few ideas on how VoIP can be used in healthcare. Specifically on how IP-PBXs can be combined with Electronic Health Records (EHR).
I’ve written here before about mobile video telephony and health care, but this is a bit different. This time the idea is to mesh up one service with another. And there’s no better way to do that than using VoIP.
The Internet has brought us the ability to link services together in ways impossible to do before (or at least too hard to be worth doing). And while Houston Neal gives 7 examples of such mesh-ups, I am sure that there are more to be found - in health care and elsewhere.
It is also why I think that innovation in video conferencing (a VoIP thingy) won’t come from new features but from new applications - from meshing-up video conferencing with other services for specific needs - from the current mundane web conference with added video conferencing to playing an online game in the living room between multiple families around the world.
Tags: HealthCare, Innovation, internet, IP PBX, mesh, Mobile, service, Services, software, Telephony, TMCnet, video conferencing, Video telephony, VoIP
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