A pillar of health reform is improving access to the best health care
for more people. Technology is a cost-effective and increasingly potent
means to connect clinics in the vast and medically underserved rural
regions of the United States with big city medical centers and their
specialists. Telemedicine is well established as a tool for triage and
assessment in emergencies, but new medical robots
go one step further—they can now patrol hospital hallways on more
routine rounds, checking on patients in different rooms and managing
their individual charts and vital signs without direct human
intervention. The RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot produced jointly by iRobot Corp and in Touch Health
is the first such autonomous navigation remote-presence robot to
receive FDA clearance for hospital use. The device is a mobile cart with
a two-way video screen and medical monitoring equipment, programmed to
maneuver through the busy halls of a hospital.
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