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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedPolycom technology used to connect hospitalised children to Santa - Children's Ward at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales - Brief Article
Telecomworldwire, Nov 26, 2003
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-26 November 2003-Polycom technology used to connect hospitalised children to Santa(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
Video and voice conferencing solutions provider Polycom Inc has used its technology to create a videoconferencing link between the Children's Ward at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and Father Christmas in Lapland.
The children in the hospital can now speak to Father Christmas in real-time and inform him of what they want for Christmas. Polycom used its MedLink interactive telemedicine workstation and the Welsh Health Video Service to create the video link.
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A spokesperson for the Welsh Assembly said that videoconferencing technology should be used to make our lives easier and can be used in the health service to reduce the travelling distance and time required to reach a patient.
No financial information was disclosed.
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