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Vidyo and Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Partner to Enhance Statewide Medical Network with Vidyo Communications

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:10 +0000

Vidyo-Powered Solution Will Visually Connect over 200 Sites and 2500
Healthcare Providers Across all Regions of Alaska

American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Conference – May 6, 2013 –Vidyo, Inc. and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) today announced that they have partnered to add Vidyo’s visual communications and collaboration capabilities to ANTHC’s existing statewide telehealth network — AFHCAN. By integrating Vidyo’s

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with AFHCAN’s existing tConsult software-based system, thousands of Alaska health care practitioners will have the ability to conduct real-time, high-definition video consultations and examinations with hundreds of thousands of patients in more than 200 locations.

“The implementation of Vidyo has given us the ability to change the way we provide health care in rural Alaska,” said Dr. Stewart Ferguson, CIO, ANTHC. “The AFHCAN Telehealth program has more than 1,500 active providers in its network at any one time, with an average of 500 new providers each year. There’s a daily challenge of how best to reach out and connect with more than 200 sites scattered over 37 autonomous organizations at the end of land lines, satellite links, microwave towers, sea cables, you name it. For our complex world, we needed something that just works, period. That’s Vidyo.”

ANTHC/AFHCAN
ANTHC encompasses every city and village in the state of Alaska serving the majority of the state’s population through the AFHCAN telehealth program. Alaska is home to 700,000 people who are spread out over 660,000 square miles. This creates a challenging technology landscape that mixes satellite connectivity, high bandwidth, low bandwidth, high latency as well as terrestrial infrastructure, which all make connectivity and communication huge challenges.

Since being deployed statewide more than a decade ago, tConsult has vastly improved health care delivery in remote regions of Alaska. It has also expanded well beyond its initial concept of improving primary care workflows like specialty clinic referral, post-discharge continuity of care, and billing. Now Vidyo capabilities will be a core part of the system. Vidyo’s rich APIs enabled easy integration with AFHCAN’s tConsult solution to deliver the most cost-effective, scalable high-quality video via standard IP networks. The Vidyo solution is extremely interoperable so that it performs seamlessly over all devices: PCs, Macs, laptops, tablets, smartphone and also with older, legacy equipment.

“We are extremely impressed by how well ANTHC tackles the challenge of serving such a geographically dispersed population with high-quality health care,” said Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo’s CEO and co-founder. “For ANTHC doctors to directly assess a remote patient’s condition in an emergency situation, they need a reliable system that offers high visual acuity over unpredictable network conditions. The unequalled level of quality, performance and reliability that Vidyo offers makes this possible. The integration of Vidyo with AFHCAN’s existing software solution creates an extraordinarily powerful tool for assisting physicians and ultimately helps save lives.”

The integration of Vidyo with the tConsult system will be demonstrated at AFHCAN’s Booth #1242, at the ATA Conference taking place May 4-8, 2013 in Austin, Texas. Vidyo will be showing a documentary on the ANTHC use case, as well as demonstrating other use cases of its telehealth solution at ATA Booth #616.

The Vidyo Difference for Healthcare
Vidyo provides a highly flexible software communication and collaboration platform that can be easily customized for healthcare needs and integrated into other healthcare solutions. The patented VidyoRouter™ architecture eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency rate matching thus enabling natural, affordable, high-quality video to work over the Internet, LTE and 4G networks. Vidyo delivers end-to-end encryption, provides HIPAA-compliant security, and easily integrates into existing healthcare environments with support for a variety of medical devices and seamless interoperability with existing conferencing infrastructure. The Vidyo for Healthcare solution includes the industry’s richest and most versatile video collaboration platform with an API to video-enable third party medical applications and for easy integration into the medical workflow.

About Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
ANTHC is a not?for?profit tribal health organization managed by Alaska Native Tribal governments and their regional health organizations. ANTHC provides statewide services in specialty medical care; construction of water, sanitation and health facilities; community health and research; information technology and professional recruiting. For more information, please visit www.anthc.org.

About AFHCAN
AFHCAN is an FDA listed medical device manufacturer providing telehealth products and services that empower organizations to improve health care delivery worldwide. AFHCAN offers a diagnostic store-and-forward platform with the ability to create a telehealth case containing textual information, forms and data from biomedical peripherals, and send the case for consultation. Health care professionals are able to view the data and respond to the case using a standard PC workstation or mobile platforms. AFHCAN provides an array of telehealth program services to its ATHS (Alaska Tribal Health System) partners, Indian Health Services and commercial customers.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, that interoperate with legacy H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based video conferencing as a service solution. The VidyoWorks™ platform allows solution providers to integrate high quality visual communications into their applications, leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Vidyo’s patented VidyoRouter™ technology. Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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Vidyo Media Contact:                                  ANTHC Media Contact:
Kerry Ogata                                                  Fiona Brosnan
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Vidyo Raises $17.1 Million To Accelerate Sales Growth and Maximize Market Share

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:30:46 +0000

Hackensack, NJ – April 22, 2013 – Vidyo, Inc., today announced a $17.1 million round of financing, bringing the total amount of net capital raised by the company to $116 million since its founding in 2005. The financing was facilitated by strong support from inside investors and the addition of several new investors. Vidyo will use this funding and increased access to capital to accelerate its fast growing sales, expand global market share and broaden the adoption of its unique software based, VidyoWorks platform.

“Vidyo has proven itself as an innovator in the video conferencing market and has sparked the mass adoption of its technology, which is changing the landscape of visual communications,” said Dain DeGroff, co-founding Managing Director, Triangle Peak Partners, the lead new investor. “We are delighted to be a part of Vidyo’s successful growth.”

In 2012, Vidyo saw 68% year over year billings growth and unlocked several high-profile market segments including 77% year-over-year growth in healthcare and education and 67% growth in the large enterprise business. Vidyo currently has 27 patents issued and 57 patents pending, for its award winning architecture.

“We are experiencing a hockey stick effect in the adoption of the personal video conferencing market that continues to drive significant growth for Vidyo,” said Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo’s CEO and Co-Founder. “Our customers are expanding their deployments with us at an amazing rate of 18% per quarter on an average dollar basis. We will use these funds to support this growth and accelerate new customer wins.”

Vidyo has been widely recognized for its success and has been honored with high profile awards such as Wall Street Journal’s ‘Next Big Thing’ annual list for a third year in a row, recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Tech Pioneer for 2013, and was cited on the MIT Technology Review’s 2013 “50 Most Disruptive Companies”.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, that interoperate with legacy H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based video conferencing as a service solution. The VidyoWorks platform allows solution providers to integrate high quality visual communications into their applications, leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Vidyo’s patented VidyoRouter technology. Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
+1 (301) 717-4224

Vidyo and Internet2 Partner to Offer Video Conferencing Service to All Internet2 University Members and Thousands of U.S. K-12 Public Schools

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:03:46 +0000

Internet2 NET+ Vidyo Early Adopter Enrollments Expected in May

Washington D.C. and Hackensack, NJ — April 18, 2013 – Vidyo, Inc. and Internet2, a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions, today announced a low-cost, subscription-based video communications offering for all Internet2 university members and thousands of public K-12 schools in the United States. K-12 schools will be able to participate through Internet2 NET+ regional partner. The service is expected to be available for early adopter enrollment in May.

The Vidyo-based service will be part of Internet2’s NET+ Services and will provide member institutions and other higher education and K-12 educational communities with a means to easily connect with affordable, high quality visual communication and collaboration across all institutions. Internet2 has partnered with ID Solutions, a global visual communications solutions provider, to deploy and host the service.

“Simple, high performance, personalized video based interactions have long been a goal for the education community. The Internet2 NET+ Vidyo service will enable participating institutions to work in simple, effective and collaborative manner,” said Shelton Waggener, Internet2 senior vice president. “As higher education evolves, so must the technology that we use to work together. Our community needs solutions that can be applied across and shared by all of our university, K-12 and affiliate members. We are extremely pleased by the results that were achieved via the partnership to tailor the solution with Arizona State, Emory and Northwestern Universities. We’re excited to offer this to all Internet2 university members and other institutions.”

“We’ve used Vidyo products and technology at Arizona State University for the past few years, and we continue to see a significant increase in the number of downloads of the Vidyo client; over 2,000, which is double from this time last year – just from ‘word of mouth’,” said Gordon Wishon, Arizona State University’s chief information officer. “We sponsored Vidyo as a NET+ Service for the very reasons that make us champions of this video communications solution. We needed something very flexible, portable and high quality, even under the worst bandwidth conditions. We’ve pushed Vidyo to the edge many times and its performance has been outstanding under the most extreme circumstances.”

Vidyo was recently the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2013 Video Conferencing Technology Leadership Award after a thorough review and evaluation of the top three vendors in the global video conferencing market. Frost & Sullivan’s “Best Practices Research Report” details the evaluation process and analysis that determined the winning recipient and states that “Vidyo’s market leading innovations continue to demonstrate its technology lead and commitment to make video conferencing a ubiquitous technology.”

“Vidyo’s scalable, extremely accessible high-quality solution is priced at pennies per minute, enabling a whole new range of unique uses and applications that were never before available,” said Dr. Amnon Gavish, senior VP, vertical solutions, Vidyo. “The rapidly growing number of universities using our products and the rate of adoption – can attest to Vidyo’s high quality, performance and affordability. Just look at how Vidyo usage is spreading and increasing virally throughout the ASU community and imagine thousands of institutions having access to this service! We will be addressing millions of users. This is an enormous boon to the academic world.”

Users will be able to access the new Internet2 NET+ Vidyo service on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Linux platforms from a broad range of desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones, as well as legacy H.323 and SIP devices. It is expected that the service will greatly enhance communication and collaboration between faculty, administration, classrooms, researchers and students at Internet2 affiliated institutions and businesses. Some of the anticipated use scenarios are: research collaboration, virtual classrooms, K-12 outreach, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine and encrypted DOD communications for particularly sensitive environments, and communication between non-university affiliates and partners.

Interested institutions can email netplus@internet2.edu to register for the Internet2 NET+ Vidyo service or visit to learn more.

About Internet2
Internet2® is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, and community service missions. Internet2 consists of more than 220 U.S. universities, 60 leading corporations, 70 government agencies, 38 regional and state education networks and more than 100 national research and education networking partners representing more than 50 countries. Internet2 offices are located in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Emeryville, Calif.; and Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.internet2.edu.

About IDSolutions, Inc.
IDSolutions’ award winning design and integration capabilities combine exceptional quality, user simplicity and manageability to make video communications a productive, true-to-life experience. When it comes to providing visual collaboration, few integration companies can compete with our video offerings and customer support for the business, medical, government and educational community. IDSolutions – A clear vision of communications.

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Vidyo Media Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
301-717-4224

Internet2 Media Contact
Todd Sedmak
todd@internet2.edu
202-331-5373

Vidyo Virtualizes Video Conferencing Enabling Mass Adoption and Cloud

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:30:59 +0000

Fully Virtualized Infrastructure and Flexible Licensing Models Dramatically Improves Economics and Expands Options for Video Conferencing

Enterprise Connect, Orlando, FL – March 18, 2013 – Vidyo, Inc., today announced a fully virtualized, cascadable infrastructure for video conferencing that scales across large, geographically dispersed implementations. The release of the VidyoGateway™ and VidyoPortal ™ Virtual Editions (VE) will complete the virtualization of Vidyo’s core infrastructure and open the door to mass adoption by offering enterprise customers and service providers high quality, scalable video conferencing at audio conferencing price points. Vidyo’s customers and service provider partners will be able to realize the significant cost savings, ease of administration and efficiency improvements of virtualization without the performance constraints that have previously plagued hardware-based, MCU solutions. VidyoGateway VE and VidyoPortal VE will ship in Q2 2013.

“As organizations continue to virtualize their business-critical applications, the ability to have robust solutions for the virtualization of video conferencing infrastructure is important,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “We are pleased to see Vidyo’s new solutions can support virtualized deployments, enabling the delivery of high-quality, scalable, resilient, and flexible video conferencing.”

“Companies want to get to 100% virtualization, but are still waiting for key applications that have been difficult to virtualize,” said Roopam Jain, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan North America, Information and Communication Technologies Practice. “Vidyo’s architecture eliminates those barriers and is compatible with mainstream virtualization technology. If your company has a large number of branches, it’s hard to imagine how a massive desktop deployment could be possible without virtualization and floating licenses.”

According to Forrester Research, a survey of North American and European IT decision makers indicated that by 2013, approximately 78% of their x86 server operating systems will run on virtual servers, rather than on server hardware. Vidyo provides the first and only video conferencing infrastructure that allows customers to extend their investments in these virtualized x86 servers without having to deal with problems such as latency, limited scalability and prohibitive costs.

“Through virtualization, Vidyo enables mass deployment of its video communications and collaboration platform,” said Amir Shaked, Vidyo’s Senior VP of Product Management. “We offer a video solution that supports any deployment model: premise-based, private cloud, public cloud or hybrid. Vidyo’s software licensing model further enhances the benefits of virtualization by allowing customers to take advantage of floating licenses and cascading.”

Vidyo will be demonstrating its virtualized video conferencing solution at Enterprise Connect in Orlando, March 18- 20, Booth # 613.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, that interoperate with legacy H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based video conferencing as a service solution. The VidyoWorks platform allows solution providers to integrate high quality visual communications into their applications, leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Vidyo’s patented VidyoRouter technology. Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
+1 (301) 717-4224

Vidyo Redefines the Video Conferencing Industry; Sees 68% Billings Growth in 2012

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:00:49 +0000

Analysts Cite Vidyo’s Unrivaled Platform and Partner Growth as Key Driver, Forging New Markets and Fortifying Wins

Hackensack, NJ –March 14, 2013 –Vidyo , Inc. today announced that it completed another record year, delivering 68% billings growth for 2012. The company’s market reach expanded holistically with its top 25 reseller partners growing over 435% in aggregate from Q1 2011 through Q4 2012, key new partnerships with companies such as Nintendo and 24 service providers and multiple marquee healthcare partners.

“Vidyo is outpacing the market as a result of its exceptional quality and affordable video conferencing solutions that deliver superior value and scalability. Vidyo’s continued growth is a testament to its innovative software platform that has opened new markets with applications that address the business process needs of customers,” said, Troy Jensen, Managing Director, Piper Jaffray. “As Vidyo gains market share, incumbent players are taking note and making changes to their business models and offerings in an attempt to compete. It remains to be seen if the incumbents will be able to catch up.”

“2012 was a pivotal year for Vidyo,” said Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo’s co-founder and CEO. “We have not only delivered tremendous business growth and market traction, but also initiated a measurable market shift that has completely transformed the video conferencing industry. We continue to demonstrate the innovation, strength and determination of a true industry leader.”

Vidyo unlocked several high-profile market segments in FY 2012 with marquee federal wins, the healthcare vertical growing by 77% and enterprise business growing 54% year-over-year. Vidyo’s service provider segment expanded with 24 new partners that have increased the company’s recurring revenues and opened new markets. Vidyo’s revolutionary pricing model enables end users to get personal video conferencing at audio conferencing price points. Also, in FY 2012, 51% of Vidyo’s billings came from outside of the United States, the company experienced significant new customer growth, and 18% quarterly repeat sales into its service providers and end-user installed base of customers.

“We are seeing phenomenal growth and increased interest in Vidyo’s offerings and White Label program,” said Olivier de Puymorin, CEO and founder of Arkadin, one of the largest and fastest-growing collaboration service providers in the world. “This year alone Arkadin’s revenue based on Vidyo products grew 176%. We’ve experienced tremendous pick up from important customers including leading global carriers, and we expect to see more and more companies enlist this game-changing go-to-market strategy.”

Vidyo has made similar impacts in the telehealth market, driving technology innovation for healthcare providers and enabling new applications for patient care and physician collaboration with partners such as Philips, HealthSpot, REACH Health, Rubbermaid Telemedicine and AMD Global Telemedicine. The company’s leadership in this market was acknowledged this year with the honor of receiving the Frost & Sullivan North American Video Telemedicine Customer Value Enhancement Award.

Vidyo Achievements and Milestones
The significance of Vidyo’s market-expanding disruptive software platform was notably validated in 2012, as the company garnered several prestigious honors: The 2013 Technology Pioneer Award given by the World Economic Forum and the Frost & Sullivan Global Video Conferencing Technology Leadership Award. Vidyo was also named to Wall Street Journal’s ‘Next Big Thing’ annual list for a third year in a row, and was cited on the MIT Technology Review’s 2013 “50 Most Disruptive Companies”.

Vidyo continues to both invest in its growth and sales reach through global partners and 250 worldwide employees, and expand its technology lead through innovations that have resulted in almost doubling its patent count to 25 awarded patents by the end of 2012.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs, Macs and room systems that interoperate with legacy H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based video conferencing as a service solution. The VidyoWorks platform allows solution providers to integrate high quality visual communications into their applications, leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Vidyo’s patented VidyoRouter technology. Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata / kogata@vidyo.com / +1 (301) 717-4224

VVN Networks Launches Dramatically Reduced Cost Video Collaboration Service Built on Vidyo Infrastructure

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:16:46 +0000

Neowave, Videnda and Vu2Vu Form VVN Networks to Launch a Global
White Label Vidyo Service

London and Hackensack, NJ, March 6th, 2013 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced it will be partnering with VVN Networks Ltd, a new joint venture specifically set up to take advantage of the rapidly growing market for video-based collaboration. Using Vidyo’s disruptive technology and offering it as a hosted service, VVN Networks will be able to offer a video conferencing service at industry changing prices without requiring significant investment in infrastructure.

The venture has been founded by two national Vidyo distributors, Neowave (UK) and Videnda Distribution (Ireland), as well as global service provider Vu2Vu Networks (Ireland, USA, South Africa) to meet the cross-border video conferencing demands of enterprises. Combining the complementary skills, expertise and reach of all companies, and with ambitious plans for expansion through the recruitment of additional partners, VVN Networks will provide the global infrastructure required by businesses that operate across multiple countries and regions. Services that will be provided include:

A secure encrypted video communications service that can be bundled with voice.
Interconnectivity between legacy systems, providing B2B interoperability. Dedicated private networks can be provided as a managed service upon request.
Development of partner niche applications by utilizing Vidyo’s powerful full suite of APIs.

“This will not only significantly expand the reach of Vidyo through the distributors but will also create material new streams of revenue for resellers”, said Fraser Dean, Sales Director – UK, Ireland, Benelux & South Africa. “The collaborative force of these seasoned video conferencing distributors provides an exciting and attractive model for accessing high quality and secure video communications services that is best enabled on Vidyo’s infrastructure.”

Whilst VVN Networks will provide White Label service, the product will be individually branded in each region. The product will be available as NeoCloud through NeoWave, Vu2VuClick^TM through Vu2Vu Networks; Videnda will be making the cloud service available to selected resellers and service providers.

“Vidyo’s sterling reputation for secure, scalable solutions, as well as its multi-platform approach to video conferencing, was huge incentive for us to collaborate and launch VVN Networks,” said Margaret Brewer, Joint Managing Director of VVN Networks’ leading NeoCloud in the UK, “We’re delighted to have the support of Vidyo in this new venture as we move forward in recruiting additional partners around the world.”

“This partnership brings impressive synergy, combining NeoWave and Videnda’s strong market-driven expertise, with our own technical capabilities.” added Godfrey Fletcher, CEO Vu2Vu Group “We’re all enthusiastic advocates of Vidyo’s technology and we’re excited to be working together to support the broader uptake of video communication.”

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs, Macs and room systems, while providing interoperability with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions. Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

About VVN Networks Ltd
VVN Networks Ltd (VVN) has been established to market, sell and support hosted Vidyo solutions on a global basis. It sets the scene for future expansion into new territories either through organic growth or through regional franchises issued through VVN Networks. VVN will welcome partnership enquiries from other potential regional partners. VVN is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. www.vvnnetworks.com

About NeoWave NeoWave is a UK based telecoms distribution company, with a reseller channel and experience in unified communications including hosted telephony. NeoWave will be branding this service as “NeoCloud”, a platform which enables partners to collect recurring revenues from Video, Voice & Mobile. NeoCloud delivers a total billing and back office management solution equipped with all the tools resellers need to build, bill and track complex modern technologies.www.neo-cloud.co.uk

About Vu2Vu
Vu2Vu is a customer service provider (CSP) for Vidyo Inc., the market leader in Personal Telepresence video conferencing systems. World headquarters for Vu2Vu are in Dublin, Ireland from where it services the European market via its Vu2Vu Ireland subsidiary. Vu2Vu USA, based in Austin, Texas covers the North American market while Vu2Vu South Africa serves the Southern African continent from its base outside Johannesburg, South Africa. www.vu2vu.com

About Videnda
Videnda Distribution Ltd is a specialist trade-only distributor of communications solutions. Videnda focus on advanced VoIP, video, collaboration and IP surveillance solutions that deliver enhanced productivity so that people and organizations can communicate more easily and efficiently. www.videnda.ie

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Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
+1 (301) 717-4224

Philips Healthcare and Vidyo Enable Enterprise-Grade Video for Remote Patient Monitoring

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:00:28 +0000

Clinical Care and Coordination Is Revolutionized with Vidyo’s Next-generation Video Communications Technology Incorporated into Philips’ IntelliSpace eCareManager 3.9 Platform

Andover, MA and Hackensack, NJ – March 6, 2013 – Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and Vidyo, Inc. today announced that the first Philips Healthcare solution incorporating enterprise-grade video for patient monitoring applications – PhilipsIntelliSpace eCareManager 3.9 enterprise telehealth platform featuring Vidyo’s VidyoRouter technology – was launched during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2013 conference and exhibition in New Orleans.

The new remote patient monitoring platformfollows an earlier announcement of the companies’ collaboration in April 2012, initiating Philips’ launch of an enterprise video conferencing platform for healthcare to be used for monitoring ICU patients. Technological features of the system incorporate multiple tools for enabling better coordination of patient care, care team collaboration, and patient engagement; allowing visual monitoring and access to vital patient information from remote locations, in a reliable and cost effective manner.

The platform combines Philips orb – a newly launched graphical dashboard – with Vidyo’s VidyoRouter Platform, which expands the ability for care provider devices to work across a broader range of networks. Orb’s ability to integrate practical data with visual technology helps clinicians to prioritize patient needs and streamline in-hospital care. The orb dashboard features circles that represent individual patients and their health status. By viewing these circles, clinicians can determine, at a glance, important patient or population-level information, such as which patients are in need of immediate care versus others who might be ready for hospital discharge. It also helps clinicians prioritize information that was previously unavailable due to the massive amount of data created by a single patient, whether they are providing care at the bedside, from the nurses’ station, or hundreds of miles away from a remote, centralized telehealth care team.

As the adoption of telehealth by health systems continues to increase, companies with complementary technologies are working together to support clinicians who are managing large populations of patients remotely but don’t have the capacity to manage multiple technical systems. Philips eCareManager 3.9 and Vidyo’s collaboration provides a continuous, single platform to reduce technological redundancies – from the Emergency Department to the ICU and discharge – and offers continuity for quality of care.

The integrated workflow provides healthcare facilities with the flexibility to manage large patient populations while maintaining visibility into individual treatment needs. The system enables an expansion of video telepresence across geographically dispersed locations, and aggregates clinical informatics solutions designed to improve the quality of patient care for patients in the hospital and in the home.

“Enterprise-wide deployment of next-generation telehealth services requires advanced video technology that is scalable and flexible enough to support the needs of today’s caregiver, family and patient, regardless of distance or setting.” said Lori Lazzara, Philips’ VP, GM Connected Care Solutions. “This newest version of our IntelliSpace eCareManager platform is the first system which meaningfully combines these innovative technologies from Vidyo and Philips, and underscores our shared commitment to enabling patients to be transitioned between acuity levels at the most appropriate time, to improve patient care and reduce costs.”

“When two leaders in technological innovation, such as Philips and Vidyo, combine forces, the result is game-changing for the healthcare market,” said Amnon Gavish, Vidyo’s Senior VP of Vertical Solutions. “The interface of our two platforms is a significant first step toward a longer- term vision of providing effective telepresence for improving patient management in the ever-evolving environment of healthcare.”

About Royal Philips Electronics
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2012 sales of EUR 24.8 billion and employs approximately 118,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming, home and portable entertainment and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc., pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions. Vidyo for Healthcare eliminates the access, performance and cost issues of traditional systems that require expensive MCU equipment and dedicated QoS. With its amazing quality, unmatched accessibility and market-shifting cost-efficiency, Vidyo for Healthcare provides hospitals, specialized medical centers and physician clinics with low latency telepresence-quality video conferencing from any mobile, desktop or room-based endpoint over the Internet, WiFi and 4G networks. Vidyo delivers end-to-end encryption, provides HIPAA-compliant security, and easily integrates into existing healthcare environments with support for a variety of medical devices and interoperability with existing conferencing infrastructure. Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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For more information on Philips telehealth solutions, please reference
http://healthcaresolutions.philips.com/patient-population-management-in-the-icu#it

Media Contacts
Philips – Mario Fante; mario.fante@philips.com; 978-659-3572
Vidyo – Kerry Ogata; kogata@vidyo.com; (301) 717-4224

The VIDYO logo is a registered trademark of Vidyo, Inc. VIDYO and the trademarks of the VIDYO family of products are trademarks of Vidyo, Inc. eICU is a registered trademark of Philips. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

Frost & Sullivan Honors Vidyo with Prestigious Global Video Conferencing Technology Leadership Award

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:03:36 +0000

Vidyo Overtakes Top Incumbent Legacy Players in Comprehensive
Frost & Sullivan Comparative Market Research Analysis

HACKENSACK, NJ, February 12, 2013 – Vidyo, Inc., today announced that Frost & Sullivan has named Vidyo the winner of its 2013 Video Conferencing Technology Leadership Award after a thorough review and evaluation of the top three vendors in the global video conferencing market. To achieve this award, Vidyo’s performance against key video conferencing competitors was benchmarked using the following criteria: Development of New Technologies, Leverage of New Technologies, Brand Perception, and Customer Value. Frost & Sullivan’s “Best Practices Research Report” details the evaluation process and analysis that determined the winning recipient and states that “Vidyo’s market leading innovations continue to demonstrate its technology lead and commitment to make video conferencing a ubiquitous technology.” To read the full Frost & Sullivan report, click here.

“Vidyo is at the forefront of innovation, launching products that demonstrate the power of its ground breaking architecture and position the company for growth,” said Roopam Jain, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan North America, Information and Communication Technologies Practice. “Vidyo’s solutions offer customers a new and more scalable approach to video conferencing, eliminating the traditional hurdles to adoption including high fixed costs for multipoint infrastructure, QoS-enhanced networks and IT personnel.”

Frost & Sullivan cites that Vidyo is ahead of the market, shipping third generation SVC-based products that incorporate field experience, customer feedback and intellectual property that creates sustainable differentiation. In addition, they believe that recent Vidyo technology and product announcements like VidyoWay and the first $750 Executive Desktop System, continue to demonstrate Vidyo’s commitment to make video conferencing a universal technology for visual communications.

According to the F & S report: “The ability for customers to embed Vidyo into their own web portals and service environments via Vidyo’s APIs has enabled innovative new solutions and service offerings from a variety of OEM partners including Google+ Hangouts, Ricoh, Nintendo and Philips.”

“We are honored to have received this recognition of our continued efforts to provide exceptional, affordable video conferencing that has created new markets not previously addressable by traditional technologies,” said Ashish Gupta, Vidyo’s CMO and SVP Corporate Development. “Since Vidyo launched in 2008, we have been committed to changing the face of video conferencing; raising the bar set by incumbent providers by delivering superior value, accessibility, and scalability that is only available via Vidyo’s unique software platform. We are extremely proud to have been deemed a market leader by Frost & Sullivan, especially after such a rigorous evaluation.”

The Vidyo Difference
The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, highly flexible and can be easily customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs. The VidyoRouter™ is based on the company’s patented Adaptive Video Layering architecture and leverages the standard based Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technology. It eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency and rate matching enabling natural, affordable, high quality video to work over the Internet, LTE, 3G and 4G networks. The Vidyo platform allows users to quickly leverage the latest hardware innovations and new consumer devices, making it uniquely attractive to partners. Vidyo has been active driving H.264 SVC, HEVC and SIP videoconferencing interoperability in various standards bodies since 2005.

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Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
301-717-4224
kogata@vidyo.com

Roche Turkey Selects Vidyo to Significantly Reduce Travel, Costs and Enhance Productivity

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:01:57 +0000

HACKENSACK, NJ, January 30, 2013 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that its award-winning video communications and collaboration solution was chosen by Roche Turkey, a subsidiary of the multinational healthcare company Roche Group. Vidyo’s solution was selected over a variety of other platforms, and was chosen primarily because it delivers superior quality video over standard IP networks, including the Internet, 4G and LTE and delivers seamless connectivity between room systems, desktops, laptops and mobile devices.

Prior to using Vidyo, Roche Turkey district managers had to routinely travel to headquarters in Istanbul. “Our employees often had to fly in the day before a meeting or stay overnight because of changeable flight schedules,” said Yavuz Sanes, IT Site Head Turkey, Roche Turkey. “Travel is not only tiring and stressful, but costly in terms of time and money. Our managers are greatly enthusiastic over Vidyo’s many different benefits. They have commented many times about how easy and efficient meetings have become through the use of Vidyo.”

To find the best video communications solution, Roche contracted Vitel, a highly regarded Systems Integrator in Turkey. “Vitel provided essential assistance during all phases of the project, from vendor selection to implementation,” said Sanes.

Throughout the entire Roche organization, and especially at Roche Turkey, innovation and sustainability are key goals. In September, 2012, Roche was recognized the most sustainable healthcare company in the world, topping the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), for the fourth year in a row. The DJSI World and DJSI Europe Indexes track the performance of the leading sustainability companies based on environmental, social and economic performance. “Vidyo was a natural choice for Roche,” said Sanes. “The Vidyo platform is perfectly in line with the high value our organization places on environmental issues, because of Vidyo’s unique ability to enable our employees to meet and conduct business from wherever they are, whenever they want, without the negative environmental impact of travel.”

The fact that Vidyo allows Roche Turkey employees to access telepresence-quality video communications over an iPad using VidyoMobile™, has been one of the most noteworthy benefits to the company. In August of 2011, Roche distributed iPads to its field force of 200 people and since that time, they have needed only one single device for all of their communications needs. They are able to connect to conferences from wherever they are — over the Internet, 4G and even 3G, when corporate networks are not available. According to Roche Turkey’s calculations, in 2011, seven hundred employees participated in 216 video conferences eliminating the need for 447,000 kilometers of flight travel and 31,000 kilometers of road travel. Roche Turkey also asserts that by switching to Vidyo, transportation related risks for employees were reduced.

“Vidyo has again demonstrated the ease and value of its telepresence-quality video communications platform, delivering significant benefits,” said Eric LeGuiniec, VP and General Manager EMEA at Vidyo. “Roche Turkey is now able to conduct its business more effectively and increase the productivity of their employees by using Vidyo as the solution facilitates high-quality, natural visual communication on whatever device is convenient to Roche employees, regardless of location.”

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Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
301-717-4224
kogata@vidyo.com

Vidyo Selected by HealthSpot as Exclusive Video Conferencing Partner at CES 2013

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:25:10 +0000

Vidyo APIs Enable Telepresence-Quality Video Integration into Newly Launched HealthSpot™ Station

Hackensack, NJ – January 8, 2013 – 9:00 AM EST – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced its collaboration with HealthSpot™, a pioneer in patient and provider driven healthcare technology. HealthSpot has integrated Vidyo technology into its cutting-edge telehealth system that provides high-quality medical diagnostics to acute care patients anytime, anywhere. Anchoring the telehealth system is the HealthSpot™ Station, a private, walk-in kiosk that offers patient access to diagnosis and treatment by board-certified doctors, via Vidyo-powered HD videoconferencing and interactive digital medical devices. HealthSpot will demonstrate the Vidyo-enabled HealthSpot Station in the Grand Lobby (booth 3) at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Vidyo offers the industry’s richest and most versatile software video collaboration platform with APIs that allow companies such as HealthSpot to easily integrate high-quality video communications into innovative telehealth applications. Vidyo’s Adaptive Video Layering™ architecture and scalable video codec, provides HealthSpot with optimal and consistent video and audio quality for the most natural physician-patient interaction, even in low bandwidth environments.

The HealthSpot Station redefines access to healthcare through digital technology including a desktop with a touch screen, audio system, and a two-way high-definition video screen. The kiosk, enabled by Vidyo’s flexible and easily integrated APIs, provides Vidyo-based HD audio and video communications that brings patients a face-to-face experience with a board-certified doctor who could be miles away. Each station is supported by a certified medical attendant who facilitates check-in, helps patients with devices as needed, and sanitizes the kiosk after every visit.

“Our four criteria for a video conferencing solution included reliable quality, scalability, ease of use and smooth integration; and Vidyo has proven to consistently deliver the best interactive video experience,” said Dave Sebenoler, Chief Information Officer at HealthSpot. “The HealthSpot Station provides a true-to-life audio and video solution that brings patients a first class, face-to-face experience with a board-certified doctor who is miles away in an office.”

“HealthSpot needs to be able to deliver these important healthcare services to virtually any location with an Internet connection—in hospitals, retail pharmacies, airports, school campuses, work sites and shopping malls in urban or rural areas,” said Amnon Gavish, Vidyo’s SVP Vertical Solutions. “They need to be confident that their kiosk can be installed in any location and offer reliable and high-quality video communication using ordinary wired or wireless IP networks. Only Vidyo’s platform can satisfy that critical requirement.”

“The high quality of video and audio in the HealthSpot Station is key to establishing a good doctor-patient relationship,” said Dr. Robert Stone, one of the doctors who had early and extensive experience with the HealthSpot Station. “Without the level of video conferencing quality that Vidyo provides, the interaction would be uncomfortable and unproductive. Particularly in encounters where the doctor and patient are meeting for the first time, it could compromise the relationship and the patient’s confidence in both the healthcare encounter and treatment recommended.”

The Vidyo Difference for Healthcare
Vidyo provides a highly flexible software communication and collaboration platform that can be easily customized for healthcare needs and integrated into other healthcare solutions. The patented VidyoRouter™ architecture delivers Adaptive Video Layering™, which dynamically optimizes the video for each endpoint leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based compression technology and Vidyo’s IP. Adaptive Video Layering eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency rate matching thus enabling natural, affordable, high-quality video to work over the Internet, LTE and 4G networks.

Vidyo delivers end-to-end encryption, provides HIPAA-compliant security, and easily integrates into existing healthcare environments with support for a variety of medical devices and seamless interoperability with existing conferencing infrastructure. The Vidyo for Healthcare solution includes the industry’s richest and most versatile video collaboration platform with an Application Programming Interface (API) to video-enable third party medical applications and for easy integration into the medical workflow.

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Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
+1 (301) 717-4224