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Hospital Services Limited partners with Zoom to deliver integrated virtual healthcare platforms
Hospital Services Limited (HSL), a specialist distributor of telehealth solutions for hospitals and medical practices across the UK and Ireland, has announced an agreement with Zoom which will allow their customers to deliver integrated virtual care services for clinicians and patients.
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he agreement will enable provision of seamless, highly secure and user-friendly telehealth services for a wide range of healthcare implementations. HSL is the first healthcare partner with Zoom in the UK and Ireland. This partnership will provide HSL with an option to expand the availability and adoption of virtual consultations through a widely known app, so that the broadest possible range of patients and the general public can access different parts of the healthcare system. Telehealth solutions have been widely embraced by healthcare providers and patients alike during the pandemic, and this new way of providing and accessing patient care is expected to endure within the local healthcare sector post-pandemic. The team at HSL predicts that within a year, every hospital across the UK and Ireland will be using Zoom in some part of their operations, and the availability of Zoom through a healthcare partner removes the risks of investing in this technology in many more parts of healthcare development and delivery.
“The opportunity to work with Zoom, and to embed their services with the solutions that we have been delivering to healthcare providers across the UK and Ireland, brings together the power and capacity of the world’s largest provider in this space with dedicated specialists, products and services that we at HSL already supply to our customer base. The addition of this service to our growing portfolio of telehealthenabled practices and solutions empowers our customers to deliver integrated virtual health platforms as part of their Covid management plans, in a way that they will remain as part of the health service beyond this pandemic.”
Dominic Walsh CEO, Hospital Services Limited Ron Emerson, Global Healthcare Lead at Zoom Video Communications, added: “We are excited by the prospect of working with
Hospital Services Limited to create more uses for Zoom in healthcare in the UK and Ireland, in ways that will exploit the fantastic capabilities, current and future, that Zoom provides. I know and have worked with the HSL Telehealth team for many years and understand the specialist skills and experience they provide, which can help healthcare providers to embrace and use Zoom to deliver benefit to clinicians and patients alike.” Sam McMaster, Director of Telehealth for HSL, added: “The option to leverage the Zoom services as part of telehealth applications and virtual healthcare platforms offered by HSL brings a new and dynamic dimension to the market for these services. Zoom is the app of choice for many people and has been used extensively in medical education for many years. Our ability to provide Zoom as a service for our customers in health and to integrate this with the clinical workflows that drive the health service to deliver secure, private safe virtual consultations will help our customers to transform the health service.” www.hsl.ie
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