Medical practitioners and healthcare providers benefit from MAGPI and Internet2 by increasing institutional efficiencies, keeping doctors at the forefront of research and improving patient care.

Medical Missions for Children

Expanding access to patient care to enhance children’s lives

Medical Missions for Children aims to “transfer medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it using the latest in communications technology.” Medical Missions for Children is a multiple-award winning charity located at St. Joseph ’s Children’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ that operates a distance medicine network in over 100 countries called the Telemedicine Outreach Program (TOP), a global satellite and IP TV network called the Medical Broadcasting Channel (MBC), the Global Video Library of Medicine (GVLM), and Giggles Children’s Theater – Where Laughter is the Best Medicine. Using MAGPI and Internet2, Medical Missions for Children further expands its viewing audience using the latest IP video production, archival, and distribution technologies. The Giggles Children’s Theatre invites K12 institutions to connect with pediatric patients through videoconference-based performances and more. One of the 2008-2009 MAGPI Fellows Team partnered with Giggles Theater to present science demonstrations to patients.

Telemicroscopy

The future of distributed healthcare

Pathologists at the University of Pennsylvania Health System have been experimenting with Digital Video Transport System (DVTS) for high quality video telemicroscopy using MAGPI and Internet2. DVTS based telemicroscopy is intended to be used for real time clinical case consultation between pathologists at the three Philadelphia hospitals that make up the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In addition, the DVTS streaming microscopy can be used in multicast mode to allow all three sites to participate in clinical and educational conferencing. Using DVTS, video quality is superb, the cost savings is significant and the diagnostic consultation is more efficient.