Systems Integration Asia — February-March 2018

INSTALLATION AUSTRLIA

AV over IP solution helps achieve objectives

Adventist Hospital Fights Cancer with AV Strengths

Sydney Adventist Hospital's Integrated Cancer Centre conference
room, dubbed the “cancer war room” is a purpose built facility
where clinical multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) meet to discuss
cancer patients' cases. Each meeting is focused on a certain cancer
or tumour stream and normally lasts an hour. Often an MDT
meeting will work through some 20 cases in that time with
clinicians both in the room or remotely via video-conference. It's a
punishing schedule where lives are at stake.

Crisis Talks

Formerly, MDT meetings were held in traditional boardroom-style
rooms with a couple of screens at the front. There was a lot of
messing around passing computer keyboards around, or trying
(often vainly) to connect a device. If someone was late to the
meeting, it'd disturb proceedings... everyone knew it was a less
than satisfactory situation but no one had the time or the
opportunity to think of a better way.

That was until the new Integrated Cancer Centre was being
planned.

Barbara MacKenzie is head of IT operations (ofcially her title is:

Manager, Information Services Operations and Infrastructure at

Adventist HealthCare) and had a sense that because these MDT

meetings followed an unusual format they needed special design

attention.

Roneel Singh is an AV/IT consultant with WSP (ofcially his title is:

Technical Director — Head of Technology Systems (ANZ) at WSP)

and he was engaged to consider this knotty problem, after all,

what we're talking about isn't a boardroom, or a video conference

room or a teaching space, even if there are elements of all three.

Barbara describes the breakthrough: “I think the lightbulb

moment came when Roneel said: 'you're describing a crisis

management centre'. That opened up our thinking conceptually

and gave the architect a fresh sense of what the space could be.”

With the big initial breakthrough made, the hard work lay ahead:

Barbara, Roneel and his team embarked on a consultation process

that included the clinical leads from each specialty in order to

intimately understand the running of an MDT meeting. As Barbara

puts it: “We looked closely at the process the clinicians go

through to work out how we could better provide technology to