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Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Last week while Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC senior vice president Vito Mabrucco were having a media event in Toronto to discuss the details of the IDC Hyperconnectivity study, Nortel was also hosting a group of reporters to it’s campus in Richardson, TX. This group of reporters was from CALA (Caribbean and Latin America), and the Nortel team had a full two-day agenda scheduled for them.

In addition to a telepresence session with John and Vito, the reporters were also treated to a visit to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas to see the UC deployment in their radiology department.

Nortel developed a system for Baylor that sends physician orders via instant messaging to radiology technicians equipped with unified communications-enabled Blackberries. The radiologists use huge 1,600 pound portable X-ray machines on wheels to take bedside X-rays.

The CALA reporters were shown the process for taking and sending digital bedside X-rays throughout the six hospitals on campus. They were also shown how long the process can take without the mobile/blackberry system — long wait for elevators, big X-ray equipment that is not easily portable from bed to bed, etc. It may seem trivial, but with over 6,000 X-ray requests per month and a hospital unit bigger than a football field to deal with, Baylor estimates the system saves their radiologists 15 minutes every hour in wasted time. You can see more on the Baylor network in this press release Nortel issued last fall.

See below for more pics from the CALA media’s visit to the Nortel Richardson campus. Click on thumbnails to see full-size pics.