Videoconferencing Benefits

Meetings

• Enables the possibility of holding meetings that could not otherwise have taken place due to financial or time constraints


• Reduces travel time and expense


• Provides the means to conduct meetings on a more regular basis, or at a moment's notice, thus accelerating decision making and reducing time to market

Distance Learning

• Connects educational facilities worldwide for distance learning and employee training


• Enables visual participation of remote students

Collaboration

• Whiteboards, file transfers, and document / application sharing tools such as Hitachi Software's StarBoard digital whiteboards and StarBoard software:
  
  • Provide real-time information exchange, and
  
  
  • Allow data collaboration

Telemedicine

• Facilitates remote diagnosis, allowing doctors to communicate with patients, examine data and review x-rays


• Facilitates home health care, enabling patients to be monitored at home via PC-based telemedicine systems

Telecommuting

• File sharing and whiteboards are likely to play a significant role in the adoption of videoconferencing services for telecommuters

Legal / Law Enforcement

• Enables remote video arraignments


• Facilitates video depositions


• Allows remote testimony
  

 

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