VCI Medical makes the impossible in video conferencing possible. It enables medical institutions to send up to four streams at the same time, and display them on four different monitors on every location. A typical scenario can be to send the image from a camera, two MRI screens and a PC with the patient’s journal.
Each VCI control panel can be configured, monitored and upgraded through a central management interface; reducing the management cost and increasing the uptime through early warning in a critical environment.
Telemedicine:
VCI Medical is ideal for use in Telemedicine. It is possible to record and document surgeries, for use in training and tutorial sessions and for consulting remote medical experts e.g. from off-shore to main land. The figure below shows a typical scenario where video from a surgery (overview camera, dome camera, endoscope, X-Ray and ECG) is recorded and sent to the remote site real time.
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Source control:
The Cisco C90 supports up to five active simultaneous physical inputs connected to the system. These can be sources like Camera 1, Camera 2, PC, DVD, Smart Board, Document camera etc.
Having control of what’s currently connected, and on which input can be hard, and choosing where they should be displayed even harder. The VCI control panel gives the users live preview of what’s currently sent from the sources before they are dragged into the conference. And through the touch monitor lets you use drag and drop to choose which sources should be presented on which screens.
Adjusting the camera has never been easier:
One of the main goals with visual communication is to be able to see the facial expressions of people in the conference. This can only be obtained if you can see their faces, but moving the camera can normally be a tedious and difficult task. But not with VCI.
A quadrant of the panel will show you a layout of the room, and the users can simply touch the location in the image they want the camera to focus on. The camera will through an advanced algorithm instantly pan, tilt and zoom in to that location, making camera control quick and accurate.
Live support:
The user contact helpdesk through one click on the panel. The support person will instantly see which room is calling and can use this information to do troubleshooting in the Cisco Telepresence Management Suite. Potential audio and video issues will also be visible to the support person since he/she will be added to the conference running on the Cisco system.
Making a call:
The users can choose between calling favorites, scrolling through or searching the TMS provided multi-level phonebook, or simply inserting the number/URI via an on-screen qwerty-touch-keyboard.
Recording:
Recording events for the patient’s journal is very important, and the VCI Intern makes the recording service instantly available. The users can through one click start and stop the audio/video recording, and control what should be recorded.
Controlling Peripheral Devices:
Utilizing the general purpose I/O ports on the C-series codec, VCI is able to control different types of peripheral devices. A typical scenario is to turn off lightning or closing the curtains when a presentation is about to begin, or switching on the projector and rolling out the projector screen when starting a new video conference. VCI's peripheral device controlling is highly customizable and may be tailored for the customer's convenience.