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mobile av equipment (below left) resembles the style of medical carts doctors are used to, while an infrared camera senses visitors exiting the elevators (above).

Connected Care

Pittsburgh's Center for Connected Medicine is an architectural and technological showcase for the possibilities of modern medicine.

The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is truly a unique venue with a big mission: to change the way the health care industry conducts business by harnessing technology. To do so, the CCM has a roster of big names from the AV and IT worlds on its side, including founding partners University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), IBM, Alcatel Lucent, and Cerner; and strategic partners dbMotion, Google, Johnson Controls, Polycom, Research in Motion, and Turner Healthcare.

 

Health Care Installs

Latest Health Care Installs

  • Center for Connected Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa. AV consultant: The Sextant Group. AV integrator: SoundCom. Architect/design firm: The Design Alliance. Visioning consultant/communications consultancy and design: ThoughtForm.

    2010 Best Health Care AV Project

    Sixty floors above Pittsburgh, sensors detect visitors? arrival at the Center for Connected Medicine and greet them with an interactive Flash program projected onto glass-etched automatic doors.

     

  • Connected Care

    The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is truly a unique venue with a big mission: to change the way the health care industry conducts business by harnessing technology. To do so, the CCM has a roster of big names from the AV and IT worlds on its side, including founding partners University of...

     
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Most Popular Health Care Installs

  • Center for Connected Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa. AV consultant: The Sextant Group. AV integrator: SoundCom. Architect/design firm: The Design Alliance. Visioning consultant/communications consultancy and design: ThoughtForm.

    2010 Best Health Care AV Project

    Sixty floors above Pittsburgh, sensors detect visitors? arrival at the Center for Connected Medicine and greet them with an interactive Flash program projected onto glass-etched automatic doors.

     

  • Connected Care

    The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is truly a unique venue with a big mission: to change the way the health care industry conducts business by harnessing technology. To do so, the CCM has a roster of big names from the AV and IT worlds on its side, including founding partners University of...

     
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Health Care Spotlight Awards

  • Center for Connected Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa. AV consultant: The Sextant Group. AV integrator: SoundCom. Architect/design firm: The Design Alliance. Visioning consultant/communications consultancy and design: ThoughtForm.

    2010 Best Health Care AV Project

    Sixty floors above Pittsburgh, sensors detect visitors? arrival at the Center for Connected Medicine and greet them with an interactive Flash program projected onto glass-etched automatic doors.

     

  • 2009 Best Health Care AV Project

    Imagine you're a child going in for an MRI or CT scan. It can be a scary experience. At Miami's Baptist Country Walk Pediatric MRI Center, the modest, creative AV system design puts young minds at ease.

     

  • 2008 Judges' Award: Adopt-A-Room

    Losing their young daughters to chronic childhood illnesses drove Brian Schepperle and David Millington to form Adopt-A-Room, a White Bear Lake, Minn.–based foundation that draws on corporate sponsorships and donations to remodel pediatric hospital rooms to help children and their parents better...

     
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Healthcare Guides to Doing Business

  • Telemedicine: Life, Death and AV?

    AV professionals can't often say that their work involves life-or-death issues, but in the growing health care niche known as telemedicine, they can. In fact, ensuring high-quality, reliable video signals is a non-negotiable objective of every telemedicine project.

     

  • Guide to Doing Business in Health Care AV

    Market trends, 5-minute interview, and sector research

     
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Health Care Installs by Region

West Health Care Installs

  • Medical School Goes The Distance

    The University of Arizona College of Medicine's new Phoenix campus uses advanced AV technology for distance education and telemedicine.

     

  • AV Helps Lab Stay Connected

    Sprawling new bio-science center integrates modestly budgeted AV system to communicate its not-so-modest ambitions.

     
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Plains & Mountains Health Care Installs

  • Wide Area Conferencing

    THE POPULAR colloquialism, “They do things big in Texas,” certainly must have a lot to do with physical geography. The University of Texas' Health Science Center (HSC), based in San Antonio, illustrates that dynamic in the way it virtually links medical, dental, and nursing teaching facilities that...

     
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Upper Midwest Health Care Installs

  • 2008 Judges' Award: Adopt-A-Room

    Losing their young daughters to chronic childhood illnesses drove Brian Schepperle and David Millington to form Adopt-A-Room, a White Bear Lake, Minn.–based foundation that draws on corporate sponsorships and donations to remodel pediatric hospital rooms to help children and their parents better...

     

  • Even Better than the Real Thing

    During their simulated emergency-room trial, every move the student nurses made was quietly overseen by their instructors, who observed the students via video cameras from one of two monitoring stations.

     
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Southeast Health Care Installs

  • 2009 Best Health Care AV Project

    Imagine you're a child going in for an MRI or CT scan. It can be a scary experience. At Miami's Baptist Country Walk Pediatric MRI Center, the modest, creative AV system design puts young minds at ease.

     
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Mid-Atlantic Health Care Installs

  • Center for Connected Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa. AV consultant: The Sextant Group. AV integrator: SoundCom. Architect/design firm: The Design Alliance. Visioning consultant/communications consultancy and design: ThoughtForm.

    2010 Best Health Care AV Project

    Sixty floors above Pittsburgh, sensors detect visitors? arrival at the Center for Connected Medicine and greet them with an interactive Flash program projected onto glass-etched automatic doors.

     

  • Connected Care

    The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is truly a unique venue with a big mission: to change the way the health care industry conducts business by harnessing technology. To do so, the CCM has a roster of big names from the AV and IT worlds on its side, including founding partners University of...

     

  • Behind the Curtain: Weill Cornell Medical College

    The Weill Cornell Medical College boasts affiliations with top-tier teaching hospitals in order to give students access to cutting-edge, hands-on experience. Today, the school's mission remains the same, but its teaching tools have gone high-tech.

     
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Northeast Health Care Installs

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