In another interesting CNN Health article Dr Sanjay Gupta details new opportunities for wireless and video technologies to improve care including video psychiatric counseling and wirelessly connected pacemakers that enable Cardiologists to remotely monitor their patients and stay a step ahead of potentially life-threatening problems.
“If a patient’s asleep and you see this abnormal rate, you can bring them in, put them on a blood thinner and prevent them from having a stroke… …the wireless device not only provides safety but convenience for patients, who are able to rest easier and can make fewer trips to the doctor’s office… …Before there would be reams of data to read when they came in, but now I can look them in the face and concentrate on them”
Steven Greenberg, Cardiologist at the Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Center, St. Francis Hospital, New York.
Image shows a “video terminal” that is part of the network with which the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is providing 60,000 remote patient encounters per year in clinical areas as diverse as psychiatric counseling, mental health screenings and the provision of post-surgery follow-ups for patient populations that include Prison inmates, Antarctica Researchers and Cruise Ship passengers.
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