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SeaChange Digital Video Technology Streamlines Healthway Interactive Hospital Services
03/02/98
PR Newswire
(Copyright (c) 1998, PR Newswire)
Integrated Video Server 100 Gives Hospitals Consistent Full-Motion Video
MAYNARD, Mass., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SeaChange International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEAC) today announced that its Video Server 100 has replaced videotape decks at several U.S. hospital installations of Healthway Interactive's Patient Directed Communication System (PDCS) for patient education, multi-media information delivery, and operational support. As an OEM customer, Healthway is applying SeaChange's expertise in digital video to a vertical market solution.
By integrating SeaChange's digital video server technology with the PDCS, Healthway Interactive enables healthcare institutions to leverage the power of reliable full-motion video with patients and staff. Affirming its commitment to digital video, Healthway also will standardize future PDCS installations on SeaChange's Video Server 100.
Currently installed at leading U.S. healthcare institutions, Healthway delivers video-on-demand for patient and staff education, interactive surveys and other in-room services via extensive media libraries of CD-ROMs, videotapes or laser disks. By easily replacing this architecture with SeaChange's MPEG -2 digital Video Server 100, Healthway customers, such as New Hanover Regional Medical Center of Wilmington, N.C. and Baptist Memorial Hospital Medical Center of Memphis, Tenn., will consistently deliver demanding video applications regardless of size of the installation, volume of content, and diversity of applications.
"Healthway's move to digital video was made possible by SeaChange's ability to quickly integrate a mature technology with our existing solution," said Robin Brenizer, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, Healthway Interactive. "Integrated SeaChange servers not only free our systems from the limitations of analog video storage, but they also allow us to incorporate the Internet into our video delivery architecture."
SeaChange's extensible Video Server 100 offers a cost-effective approach to storing and delivering video data for a range of media applications. Based on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and an Intel Pentium-based architecture, the Video Server 100 meets the exacting requirements of video- on-demand (VOD), near video-on-demand (NVOD) and interactive programming. "Hundreds of SeaChange's MPEG -2 servers are installed in the television industry worldwide, so video technology integrators are assured that our products surpass their own stringent requirements," said Bill Styslinger, President and CEO, SeaChange International.
SeaChange will demonstrate its Video Server 100 at the National Association of Broadcasters 1998 conference in April (Booth 2972, Sands Convention Center).
About the companies
Healthway Interactive, Inc. (www.healthway.net), a leading provider of interactive education, information and consulting services to the hospital industry, is privately owned and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Healthway has delivered healthcare educational videos to more than 300,000 patients in major medical centers across the country, including Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of Los Angeles, Columbia Saint David's Hospital in Austin, Texas, The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, N.Y., and Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.
Founded in 1993, SeaChange International, Inc., of Maynard, Mass. (www.schange.com), is a leading provider of software-based products to manage, store and distribute digital video for television operators and telecommunications companies. The Company's products automate the management and distribution of short- and long-form video streams including advertisements, movies, news updates and other video programming requiring precise, accurate and continuous execution. SeaChange's products are installed in hundreds of geographic markets and serve approximately 13,000 television channels worldwide.
NOTE: SeaChange Video Server 100 is a trademark of SeaChange International, Inc. All rights reserved.
/CONTACT: John Coulbourn of SeaChange International, 508-897-0100, ext. 3098, johnc@schange.com or Robin Brenizer of Healthway Interactive, 512-794-2000, rbrenizer@healthway.net/ 10:10 EST |
