Web Delivery for New Arrivals- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
Web Delivery for New Arrivals- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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March 16, 2001
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In This Issue:
Teaming Up for the Big Race
Web Delivery for New Arrivals
Last Call for Compassionate Care Scholar Nominations
5-Digit Dialing Training Sign-up Begins
Pike Notes
Valet Meets One Millionth Customers
Obituary: Louis Zani
Call for Nominations
As families extend across state lines and national borders, BWH has adopted a high tech way to link parents and their newborns with friends and relatives via the internet. Starting in February, a baby born at BWH can be introduced in a press conference to family and friends across the country or the ocean without leaving the Connors Center at no cost to the parents. BabyPressConference.com is a state-of-the-art opportunity for parents to appear with their baby in a 30-minute live broadcast on the site. Grandparents, godparents, aunts and uncles can see the baby wiggle and hear him or her “coo” on live streaming video. A chat room and message board allow guests to ask the parents questions and offer support without expensive phone bills. “Since many of our patients travel quite a distance to deliver their babies here at BWH, BabyPressConference.com now enables family and friends to share the excitement and joy without having to physically visit BWH,” said Ellen Sharpe, RN, nurse manager of CWN-8. During pregnancy, parents with BabyPressConference.com, which sets up a personalized webpage and sends out e-mail invitations to a list requested by the parents. Only people on the invite list can access the secure webpage. When the baby is born, BabyPressConference.com sends out another set of e-mails leading friends and family to the live netcast. The netcast is then recorded in the kiosk rooms located within the Connors Center. BabyPressConfer-ence.com staff installed three Internet Broadcast Centers containing a camera and computer on floors 8, 9 and 10 in the Connors Center. The computer’s interface will lead parents through the process of recording and netcasting their press conference. “BWH is happy to extend this added service to our new mothers and their families, as they celebrate this special time in their lives,” said Vicki Amalfitano, vice president, Marketing and Planning. Brochures explaining the process are available to parents in ob/gyn offices, childbirth education programs on BWH’s website and on the Web at
www.babypressconference.com