News@Cisco: APAC Healthcare NewsNews@Cisco: APAC Healthcare News (the 20 most recent stories)METRO's Future Shoppers See a New Advertising Medium In Store testing- June 25, 2003 The mighty world of advertising is about to be irreparably altered. Not by legislation, globalization or even the economy - but by a small supermarket in Rheinberg, Germany. There, the retailer METRO Group is testing - besides many other future technologies - content-sensitive plasma screen advertisements which, it is believed, will become one of the most effective advertising media of the next decade. ...http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2003/ts_07-24.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f... South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals Reduces Communications Costs and Improves Patient Care with IP Telephony- June 11, 2003 Background The South Western Alliance of Rural Hospitals (SWARH) was established in September 1997. It is comprised of 11 Public Hospitals in rural and regional Victoria, Australia and was formed as a result of the Victorian State Government's I2T2 cost-saving strategy. Under this initiative, the Department of Human Services grouped hospitals into health regions in order to realise greater economies of scale in their IT infrastructure deployment and maintenance costs. ...http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2003/cp_06-11.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f... |