A junior doctor holds his stethoscope during a patient visit at a hospital in Blackburn, UK. A doctor wearing the augmented-reality goggles can broadcast images and audio from a patient examination back to colleagues outside the room using Microsoft’s Teams video conferencing app. This minimises the number of health-care workers who are exposed, reduces the amount of protective equipment needed and helps patients get better access to specialists, who can remote in, according to Kinross. — Bloomberg
London hospitals are testing out Microsoft Corp’s HoloLens technology to reduce the number of doctors exposed to patients with Covid-19, in a programme that could be expanded across the National Health Service if it’s successful.
A doctor wearing the augmented-reality goggles can broadcast images and audio from a patient examination back to colleagues outside the room using Microsoft’s Teams video conferencing app. This minimises the number of health-care workers who are exposed, reduces the amount of protective equipment needed and helps patients get better access to specialists, who can remote in, according to James Kinross, a surgeon and lecturer at St. Mary’s Hospital who’s behind the program.
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