You can’t turn on your TV or look at your phone without seeing and hearing about the global impact of coronavirus — or COVID-19 as it’s officially called. The effects of COVID-19 are far-reaching, and many businesses and organizations have already been impacted – or are thinking about taking precautionary measures. But is your business prepared with the virtual work tools to thrive in this new environment? The trend toward virtual meetings is growing regardless of the latest distressing headlines. Illness, weather and even time and budget constraints can keep you away from a conference or an office meeting. Here are some ways that you can create a better virtual work experience for your company — now and in the future.
Choose the Right Video Conference Platform
More companies are switching to Zoom than ever before. It’s easy to use, provides better quality, and is more scalable than any other platform in the marketplace. Crisp, clear, on-time meetings have greater positive impact on attendees and IT teams and bring prospects and clients to the table. You might be comfortable with your current software, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right solution for your business.
Consider Moving Your Meetings, Lectures or Conferences Online Until the Threat Dissipates
As of this posting, many on-location conferences have been cancelled due to fear of the virus spreading in large groups. Zoom creates virtual conferences with globally streamed presentations to any device. Collaboration tools allow interaction presenters of up to 1,000 active participants or up to 10,000 view-only participants at a time. You can bring the conference right to an office or home. Cocktail hour and booth giveaways not included.
Teachers and professors can virtually educate their students to limit the spread of germs in classrooms and lecture halls. Zoom for Education helps schools and universities address educator concerns and improve student outcomes with secure video communication services for hybrid classrooms, office hours, administrative meetings and more.
Zoom for Telehealth offers health care and medical providers with a HIPPA compliant solution to reach patients virtually, which reduces the need for potentially at-risk patients to travel or interact with large groups.
Zoom for Telehealth is the industry’s first scalable video telehealth service with opportunities to help a wider population and lower costs and spending. Zoom is not only HIPAA compliant, low cost and rich in features, but it also integrates with Epic, the predominant healthcare industry records platform. Zoom’s Epic integration enables healthcare organizations to launch Zoom from within an Epic video-visit workflow. Physicians can select and launch directly into their video-visit appointments in Hyperspace, seamless documenting in Epic throughout the video visit. Patients can comfortably and securely launch Zoom from their MyChart patient portal on their personal computer or mobile device.
With travel bans and event cancellations making headlines, your business needs the right video conferencing platform to stay connected and productive. DGI now has promotional pricing on some of their most popular video conferencing equipment- DTEN, Aver, and Poly. You can buy online by talking to a professional to help you decide what works for your team. Take the time to talk to DGI about a healthy, unified communications strategy that works for your business — and your clients.
