een out of reach. This may decrease the number of days that patients must remain hospitalized, and permit visiting nurses to provide services to more patients than they could have personally visited. A visiting nurse can visually examine a group of patients before deciding which are in the greatest need of on-site care. Videotaping doctor-patient consultations, which is a simple enhancement to video communication, can even decrease malpractice exposure because it allows review of a physician's diagnostic process. Many health care professionals prefer the process because a doctor on tape is a polite and courteous doctor. CONCLUSION Video communication may not suit every situation. Learning how to operate and maintain machinery may require an on-site instructor. Moreover, smaller audiences may make it difficult to cost-justify video communication infrastructure. However, accepting that time spent commuting is generally time wasted, video communication promises increased productivity through better time management. Many people who drive to an office or a classroom could perform their work at home, at a remote office, or on the road with a computer and a network connection. With video communication, organizations need not limit their hiring choices by where people live; they can pick the best people no matter where they live. Schools and colleges can disregard time and distance limitations by delivering education through audioconferencing, audiographics, video, and computer-mediated communication. While it is easy to adopt a predisposition that, "It may work for others but not for me," video communication boasts success in many diverse applications and environments. By shedding preconceptions and considering how to combine video communication with other processes and technologies such as broadcast media and store-and-forward video, one can find ways to remove barriers to worthwhile work. When one focuses on the needs, discards stereotypes, and applies the necessary technologies to solve communications challenges, the