As pressures increase on healthcare professionals from a clinical and administrative perspective as well as workforce legislation relating to the reduction in working hours, the adoption of new means of communication becomes essential. Medical Concert® is a medical communications environment designed to support the operation of medical teams that work across organisational and geographical boundaries. It provides a simple means of accessing and recording targeted information which is presented in a familiar format and in such a way as to be conducive to learning.

Medical Concert® allows high resolution medical images and associated clinical information to be reviewed over the DAWN2 network and outside Wales through an ISDN link via Cardiff . Video conferencing and medical records technology is combined to enable both live and stored images to be broadcast during clinical team meetings.

Standards based interfaces for PACS and other data repositories ensure that complete information data sets can be collected and shared among team members including pro-forma clinical data, pathology images, medical images, referral letters and pathology results

Medical Conferencing solutions are available for many healthcare applications, including