Case Study: Siemens Medical AV Recording with AREC

Dear ADENA partners, this time we would like to share a medical case study from Denmark completed with our Danish distributor UNIT.DK. The European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR) created a series of educational videos with AREC LS-860, showing just how easy it is to combine medical and regular AV with our systems.

ESSR is an organization that is heavily invested in the development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies and methods for the treatment of the musculoskeletal system and its research. To achieve these goals, the organization needed equipment that is capable of mixing both standard AV equipment, such as microphones and cameras and also professional medical devices, including medical scanners and x-ray machines. ESSR chose AREC as its technological partner, and specifically LS-860 Media Station to capture and record AV sources.

LS-860 is a four-channel Media Station that can admit up to 4 video sources via HDMI simultaneously. This unique feature made LS-860 the perfect fit for ESSR’s videos - two of the HDMI sources are used by PTZ cameras that focus on the doctor and their patient, one - by computer slides, and the last one by a Siemens medical scanner. The station not only records these 4 video sources together in a mixed video format but also each one of them independently, making it possible to edit the video later and review each source in detail. Importantly, LS-860 can present these video sources in different layouts and adorn them with custom backgrounds and logos.

ESSR joins the list of organizations relying on AREC to create medical and educational material. Would you like to know how your organization can use AREC solutions? Contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will be happy to assist you.

Case Study: Telemedicine, Ministry of Healthcare of Russia, and AREC

Dear ADENA Partners, in this case study, developed together with our partner in Russia, ASCOM, we are writing about recording, streaming, and telemedicine in the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia, and how AREC was instrumental in taking it to the next level. 

To accomplish its various tasks, the Ministry is divided into specialized organizations such as National Medical Research Centres. They are responsible for improving health standards, providing medical advice, and performing the most complex surgical interventions. To do that effectively, they require top of the line solutions. While they are fully equipped to deal with surgical matters, for a long time, Cardiology, Preventive Medicine, and Otorhinolaryngology centres did not have professional equipment for tasks involving spreading medical advice and telemedicine. The process of setting up, recording, exporting, editing and post-editing was simply too time consuming for the constantly busy healthcare experts, and so streams could only be done rarely. This was especially problematic for their telemedicine efforts due to the technical limitations of only using cameras to record everything. The Ministry of Healthcare recognized these centers’ problems and started looking for a solution - finding it in AREC.

Using AREC systems, particularly Media Stations KL-3W, LS-300, and Auto Tracking Cameras CI-T21H, allowed the centers to achieve the following tasks:

• Outfit surgical rooms with capturing, recording and streaming equipment that can mix diverse room equipment into a single video for educational and telemedical purposes. Track surgeons’ actions, live switch medical equipment during streams for the audience to see the readings, organize live chat between the doctors and stream spectators, backup recordings to internal FTP servers, and provide options for automatic and manual remote control.

• Equip conference rooms with equipment to help the centers create engaging and informative content. Capture both the audience and the speakers simultaneously from different angles and output a custom mixed video to social networks. 

With AREC Media Capture Systems in place, National Medical Research Centers are now able to perform their duties on a whole new level of efficiency, leaving professionals more time to take care of their patients. If you would like to know more about how AREC products can help in your projects, contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will gladly arrange a demonstration for you.

Case Study: Heds FR

ADENA and Ceconet (Official AREC Distributor in Switzerland) would like to share the first case study of 2020 - La Haute école de santé Fribourg (Heds FR). In this prestigious Swiss school, aspiring students receive high-class professional education and become exceptional doctors. And since only the best is accepted in Switzerland, it is natural that the school went for AREC solution to make their education even more effective.

One of the biggest problems that new doctors are experiencing is just how different textbook material and actual clinical cases are. When the price of a mistake is a person’s life, there is no room for doubt. As a result, universities and hospitals worldwide adopt various tactics to make sure that mistakes are prevented, and one of the most effective tactics is recording. Videos can be archived for review on-demand and live-streamed to a class of students. The use of recording makes sure that doctors come to their work already having watched hours and hours of real operations and knowing how to proceed in arising situations.

Heds FR decided to try recording to improve their students’ performance, and it brought immediate results. A combination of KL-3W, two Network Cameras CI-218, Auto-Tracking Network Camera CI-T21H and a dedicated simulation room, where livestream from the station can be observed, made sure that every operation and procedure is recorded in detail and is available for review. Per the words of Mariateresa De Vito Woods, Lecturer in Heds FR: “The simulation provides students with confidence in performing medical procedures and gives them a taste of experience of working in a real situation”. AREC systems were praised not only for their features, but also for reliability and pleasant user experience. As François Magnin, Simulation Centre Manager, said: “The quality of AREC Systems has convinced us. Similarly, collaboration with Groupe E Connect and Ceconet was excellent".

Heds FR students are already benefiting from AREC recording abilities, and satisfaction rises across the board. Do you have a potential project in healthcare or education? Visit www.a-dena.com and we can help you make it happen together.

Text: Anastasia Yakimenko