Veterans Administration Awards VBrick Contract to Provide Streaming Video Solution for Information and Education In Patient Rooms and Public Access Areas

VBrick is exhibiting at the HIMSS Show, Booth 900, February 21-24 in Orlando Florida if you are there attending the convention. The VA Caribbean Healthcare hospital and other facilities are located in Puerto Rico where they are currently renovating and expanding current facilities for veterans. You can read more about that topic at the website. Video management is all done via their web based media management portal and currently has other governmental agencies on board such as NASA. By the way, they are connected to download their medical record using the Blue Button here too. BD

Wallingford, Conn. and Orlando, FL – February 22, 2011 – Enterprise IP video leader VBrick Systems today announced from the HIMSS11 Annual Conference & Exhibition that it has implemented a streaming IP video system at the Veterans’ Administration Caribbean Healthcare System Medical Center in Puerto Rico. The Medical Center is using VBrick’s award-winning enterprise IP video solution to distribute live and on-demand rich media content over its LAN and WAN to hundreds of patients, employees and visitors.

VBrick’s Enterprise Media System (VEMS), which manages and controls video content throughout the network, and VBrick’s network video appliances, enable the VA to schedule and deliver highly customized rich media content to specific areas of the hospital at select times. This highly automated solution for delivering content to hospital staff and patients not only eliminates the burden on the IT and networking staff to manage video distribution, but ensures that hospital visitors can consume the kind of content—from news to entertainment to information about the hospital and its services—at the time and place most convenient for them.

“Hospitals and healthcare facilities continue to demand a more streamlined and fully integrated system for delivering the rich media content that both informs patients and entertains their visitors, and VBrick has met this demand fully,” said Michael Rubin, Vice President, Marketing VBrick Systems. “We are excited the VA Caribbean Healthcare System is realizing the full potential of this powerful system for delivering rich media communications.”

The Veterans Caribbean Healthcare System purchased four elements of VBrick’s IP Video platform: network video appliances that capture the video stream; set top boxes that play the streams on displays; video-on-demand servers that playback the stored content; and the VBrick Enterprise Media System software that provides a unified portal for accessing live and on-demand media files and managing the end-to-end experience.

About VBrick Systems, Inc.
VBrick is the leader in Enterprise IP Video, with over 9,000 corporate, education and government customers and 60,000 installations worldwide. VBrick solutions work over standard IP networks and the Internet to enable the creation, publishing and distribution of rich media content. Our comprehensive streaming solutions are used in a wide range of live and on-demand applications including meeting and event broadcasts, employee collaboration, distributed learning, digital signage, TV distribution, and video surveillance. Headquartered in Wallingford, CT, VBrick’s products and services are available through industry-leading value-added resellers or visit www.vbrick.com.