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FY 2000 OHIP Annual Report - Teleconference/Video Production

OHIP operates a broadcast quality television studio on behalf of CDRH and FDA. The studio is a uniquely powerful tool for outreach on a wide variety of topics. The primary medium for outreach has become production and presentation of "live teleconferences," although we continue doing videotaped programming on a limited basis.

Goals

  1. To provide the infrastructure and expert knowledge needed to effectively use audio and video in support of CDRH, FDA and other government public health programs.
  2. To evaluate, recommend and support new techniques and technologies for improved training, education and information exchange
The television studio continues to provide excellent "value" to CDRH and FDA. Studio operations and capital expenditures, other than personnel costs, are completely funded by chargebacks to the other components of FDA and other government agencies sponsoring the programming. As a result, during FY2000;
  • CDRH programming was produced with minimal program dollars.
  • The same facilities and equipment used for teleconferences and video production were available to CDRH for other purposes:
  • we provided technical video support for 27 medical device panel meetings;
  • we provided video documentation of 35 critical CDRH meetings; and
  • we downlinked 83 programs via CDRH’s fiber-optic, closed circuit channel for staff training and professional development available to all CDRH and CBER ( FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) employees.

In February 2000 we launched a comprehensive website for our television and video services. Developed in cooperation with CDRH’s Office of Systems and Management, it provides up-to-date information on television programs currently in production, programs scheduled for broadcast, and opportunities to secure programs previously broadcast. It also provides other PHS agencies with a greater understanding of the facilities and services available to them.

Another important feature of our website is a "program calendar" that provides information about, and serves as a marketing tool for, individual CDRH/FDA teleconferences. The program calendar:

  • notifies a potential audience of a scheduled event;
  • creates a temporary data base of downlink sites;
  • provides answers to frequently asked questions related to downlink operations;
  • allows for interactive exchange both before and after the distance learning broadcast; and
  • results in a database that significantly enhances our ability to accurately target marketing information for all programming activities.

Also during FY2000:

  • We began exploring opportunities to deploy an HHS-wide, multiple channel, digital service that will give all PHS agencies direct links to each other and to their constituents, including a direct link to consumers.
  • On-location video recordings of lectures, panel discussions, training classes, and other informational programs were used in a variety of training and learning situations, including rebroadcast to all CDRH staff.
  • Along with the Health Resources and Services Administration, we participated in a pilot project to disseminate television programming via digitally compressed satellite broadcasts to personal computers.
  • Fiber optic cabling was installed to provide both distribution and programming services to the new Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM)/Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) College Park facility.
  • A long-standing partnership with the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) continued to provide national training and information dissemination on issues critical to CDRH and other FDA Centers.
  • We continued our working partnership with the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) to provide training and other programming on a wide variety of FDA issues.
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