Vgo Telepresence Robots make post-op care less traumatic for kids
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If you have any recollection of being hospitalized as a child (even for a minor flu), chances are you have a deep-seated hatred for hospitals and medical staff and prefer to delay having to go the hospital even to this very day. Keeping in mind how distressing the entire hospital experience is for children and how uncomfortable it is for them to go through the post-treatment check-ups, the Children’s Hospital Boston has come with a novel way to allow kids to receive their after-care at home with the help of some very friendly telepresence robots.
Created by Vgo Communications Inc., the 5′4″ robots go home with post-op patients and allow the patient to go through recovery from the familiar comfort of home while offering doctors and medical staff the ease of continuing communication with the patient and maintaining observation and care from afar. The pilot batch of these telepresence robots have been developed by drawing on the experience of similar technology that has been previously used to assist teleworkers and to allow kids to remotely attend school.
To maximize the feeling of personal connection, each telepresence robot comes with a video screen for a face and speakers to aid communication. Articulating cameras allow the patient to interact with the robot with a sense of familiarity and audio sensors allow the robot to physically respond to the patient’s voice thus eliminating the coldness of the technology to some degree.
The telepresence robots, when used as a medical application, allow doctors and nurses to consult with patients and their parents remotely. Since they are controlled by staff back at the hospital, these robots help in providing clues to the patient’s progress by collecting up-close visual data for the medical staff. The technology can potentially ensure that medical staff is able to detect complications earlier and intervene in time and make necessary adjustments to post-op care if needed.
Using remote presence, the ongoing staff/patient interaction can also receive a great boost since patients wont be required to travel to and from the hospital. To determine the efficacy of the Vgo as a medical companion, the Children’s Hospital Boston is currently working to complete a 40 patient in-home trial with the help of five of these robots.
The prototype robots used in the hospital’s trial are synced to the hospital using the 4G LTE network provided by Verizon and do not require wireless internet connectivity. Each of these robots can transfer a lot of data at great speeds via visual and voice connections though they are currently not configured to collect and analyze blood and urine samples.
At $6,000 a pop, these telepresence robots are certainly not cheap to manufacture. However, if the prototype trial succeeds, they could be used as helpful and reassuring tools that could revolutionize post-op care for children as well as the elderly.
Via: Dvice
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:00:40 GMT
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