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March 2011 Digital Rapids TouchStream Boosts Veterinary Education at the University of Guelph
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The User: Hill's Pet Nutrition Primary Healthcare Centre at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
The Challenge: Recording and streaming video from multiple patient care facilities for live remote viewing and on-demand access by students
The Solution: TouchStream
The Benefits: "TouchStream allows us to meet the learning objectives we've set out for our students and to expand our influence in veterinary medicine globally."
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 Hill's Pet Nutrition Primary Healthcare Centre at the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph is a state of the art experiential learning facility. Student veterinarians develop enhanced skills, competence and confidence in providing primary (or routine) healthcare to pets and their families. The Centre is highly innovative, with an integrated curriculum focused on general and preventive medicine, communication skills, nutrition, rehabilitation, behaviour, animal welfare, public health and good citizenship. The Centre includes a full-service general clinic offering student-delivered veterinary services to the public. Student learning and client care is overseen by a dedicated healthcare delivery team of veterinarians, veterinary technicians, animal care and customer service specialists.
 To support their mandates, the Centre sought a user-friendly solution to capture video and audio from multiple patient care and procedure rooms simultaneously, stream it live for immediate remote observation and store it for on-demand access via the web. Dr. Shane Bateman, DVM, DVSc, DACVECC is the Director of Hill's Pet Nutrition Primary Healthcare Centre. "We required both live streaming for immediate viewing and an archival system for students to review asynchronously for performance review and reflection -- key components of skills-based learning," says Bateman. A lynchpin component of the Centre's solution is a set of 20 TouchStream LE live streaming encoder appliances from Digital Rapids. The TouchStream units, supplied and deployed by systems integrator Design Electronics, stream and record medical procedures, interviews and other clinical activities.
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