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A Florida trauma center tests the use of a mobile robot to deliver telemedicine
December 4, 2008 | 6
InTouch Technologies' RP-7 is designed to provide physicians with mobility even when they must perform from a remote location. Many videoconferencing systems used to remotely connect physicians with their patients are tethered to a single room....[More]
A doctor working remotely can autonomously drive the robot to operating rooms, intensive care units and patients' bedsides so he or she can monitor those patients as well as instruct nurses and residents....[More]
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6 Comments
Add CommentRevenge of the Daleks
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe ability to put a patient in front of a specialist anywhere in the world is fantastic. The only possible barrier is the availability of high quality bandwidth at bedside. I've heard of a project in Montana that is using video and web conferencing to link frontier hospitals to specialists in metropolitan areas. They are using Nefsis (http://go.nefsis.com), but there are a number of products that can be used. Since video conferencing doesn't work well over a wireless link, I wonder how they are dealing with the bandwidth issue.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGreat Now Doctors can just stay home and get paid.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHuman beings do. I refuse health care from a robot.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI had the experience with the robot doctor at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital on February 4, 2009 in the ER when my wife was rushed there having had seizures at home. I never thought The Jetsons and Buck Rogers fictions would ever occur in my lifetime (being 70 now), but they have. I was quite surprised to speak with a doctor via robot that day in the midst of my stress and her trauma, but so relieved and thankful as a direct result of what they were able to do for us that day.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisRichard B. Boddie
Huntington Beach, CA
yeah, you know we are by nature pretty lazy, 8 years of college, 4-7 years of residency working 80-120 hrs/ wk, then in the private world we work 12 hour days and are on call all night, your right we are just laying around and getting paid...............get real.
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