Question: VIDEO CASE Advocate Health Care Achieves Fast ROI with Business Video

Advocate Health Care became one of the top health care systems in the U.S. by creating innovations in the medical community. Those innovations led to holistic health care focused on mind, body, and spirit. Advocate relies on the network to foster communication and collaboration around advancing patient care. With Cisco business video solutions, Advocate is achieving measurable ROI. A single Tele Presence meeting almost paid for the entire investment, while Digital Signage is saving the company $200 for every 200 feet of printed signs. With Cisco Services, Advocate not only accelerated the adoption of Tele Presence and Digital Signs, but also customized the solutions to better meet the company's needs.

1. Visit the Cisco Newsroom video of "Advocate Health Care" at http://newsroom.cisco.com/video-content?type= video & video Id=114006.

2. How does Advocate Health Care (AHC) get a message of sharing across its wide, complex organization?

3. What challenges does AHC face?

4. How does telepresence support AHC's mission?

5. Who was the point person on the tele presence project, and how did he help AHC?

6. In your opinion, why was AHC able to get such a quick ROI? Did high salaries of specialized surgeons have a major impact on ROI? Explain.