Case studies - BILEC

The Job: Boston International Live Endoscopy Course (BILEC) is a unique live teaching course hosted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Dr. Ram Chuttani.  VideoLink produced the event for the eighth consecutive year.  Over 60 challenging endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures were performed by leading teams of doctors from BIDMC, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, Rhode Island Hospital and Selayang Hospital in Malaysia.
 
During the surgical video production, VideoLink camera crews shot the live procedures and transmitted them via fiber and satellite to the Westin Waterfront in Boston, MA where over 1,000 professionals in the Gastroenterological field gathered to participate in the course for continuing medical education.   Moderated by a team of experts in the GI field, the BILEC course was also sent live to additional hospital staffs viewing in Puerto Rico and Mexico. For the first time the program also included a live meeting webcast from Malaysia over an Internet 2 connection, a system with increased bandwidth strictly available to hospitals and higher education facilities. Additionally, this year marks the first time there had been a worldwide live webcast of the entire event.
 
“VideoLink was extremely pleased to be able to make this event a worldwide production by enabling anyone who registered on the website to become a part of this educational experience and receive Continuing Medical Education credits” stated Howard Miller, President of VideoLink.