Remote video communication for healthcare

The situation

Picture your GP’s desk. It probably has a phone, a computer, a medical scale model and a pair of smart glasses on a stand. Now imagine that you don’t have to go to the hospital when the GP needs a second opinion from a hospital specialist, who would usually need to take a closer look to be able to diagnose. 

Remote consultation

When closer inspection by a hospital specialist is needed, the GP schedules a remote consultation. The GP puts on the smart glasses and the hospital specialist is able to examine the patient right away.

• The hospital specialist sees exactly what the doctor sees.
• The specialist can instruct the doctor to perform certain tasks. 
• The specialist can talk to the patient as well as the doctor.
• The specialist can draw live on screen to point out possible complications.
• The specialist can save HD screenshots for the patient’s file or other purposes.
• The specialist can prescribe treatment or recommend follow-up procedures.

Benefits
Instead of going to the hospital, the patient can be examined from the comfort of their own GP’s surgery. After the remote consultation, treatment can start immediately by the GP prescribing the appropriate treatment or a follow-up appointment can be made. 

• This saves time for everyone involved; 
• • The patient is helped on the spot. 
  • The GP schedules the consultation at the same time as the regular consultation.
  • The hospital specialist is only engaged for a short call, which is more efficient than a personal appointment. 

• Waiting times in healthcare organisations are a major concern. If we can reduce waiting times without compromising the quality of the consultations, more time can be spent on improving healthcare and actually helping patients. 

Making hands-on nurses hands-free 

This is a real-life collaboration between a wound care specialist at the hospital and a home care nurse, attending to a patient's needs in the comfort of their own home. For example, the wound care specialist at the hospital has an appointment to do a virtual wound check-up. At the agreed time, she logs in to her Gemvision dashboard and the home care nurse, wearing her smart glasses, calls from the patient’s home. Thanks to the augmented instruction tools, the remote consultation can meet the highest standards. Since a home care nurse is not a wound care specialist, this support should be excellent.

Would you like to see how this works?

This is the case video made by the actual hospital, also shown in our case section.

Imagine...

Imagine how this could work for you. You might not be a home care nurse or a wound care specialist, but it doesn't matter what you display or point out with the tools. This procedure can work for all kinds of teams and professional collaborators. 

Remote advice during surgery

In most cases, surgery is a complex necessity. To ensure the highest possible success rate, advice might be crucial. For instance, when a surgeon is installing a new hip. The manufacturer or the artificial hip specialist might be able offer valuable specialist advice, but is not able to look over the surgeon’s shoulder in the operating theatre. Using smart glasses with Gemvision installed, however, the specialist is able to see what the surgeon sees and communicate at the same time. This is an actual example where an additional part had to be fitted, in order for the hip placement to succeed.

Imagine...

Imagine you could share your vision with anyone. With students enjoying a point of view perspective, or with specialists who give advice, or with anyone else who has not previously had the opportunity to tune in like this.

Share your vision and improve work today!

It's not hard to imagine how Gemvision can be used safely in wide range of healthcare situations. Wether it is on a speeding ambulance where the hospital gets a live smart glass briefing, or wether it is used in a classroom to broadcast a point of view perspective of a dissection. Or what about this: use the scanner in the glasses, in combination with a custom workflow to scan the right medicine as part of the for-eye-principle. This can be ideal when you are at a remote location, alone, at night or anywhere else attending to a patient in need.  

Do not worry about safety protocols, we've got it covered. Just dive a bit deeper into Gemvision and see for yourself how this will benefit you and your team. And most of all, the benefits for the quality of life of your patient. 

Smart Glass; Four-eyes-principle

When administering medication or verifying procedures, healthcare professional practise a mandatory, so-called four-eyes principle to verify their actions (i.e., at least two people must approve the procedure). Sometimes they have to administer medication at night, at a location where no other colleagues are present. This mandatory check could still be performed in such circumstances. There are many other similar situations.

Medication safety is another major issue at all hospitals, because we know that errors are prone to occur on the wards due to the high workload, or divided attention. Almost all hospital patients are on medication, which needs to be administrated correctly. Using this new evidence-based technology to check all bedside administration of medication, greatly reduces the risk of medication errors. 

Through your smart glasses, Gemvision offers you a 'digital' colleague who, for example, is instructed to verify that you are administering the right medicine. The picture below shows the scanner on a pair of smart glasses, seen from a first-person perspective. The person is about to scan the medicine. This is just one of the many things you can programme your smart glasses to check or verify.