Remote Monitoring & Teleradiology

So what is our team of MIT visitors interested in? One key aspect of Remote and Rural Health Care is remote monitoring, using broadband Internet and home wireless networks to make patient vital signs constantly available to the physicians. Not just blood pressure, heart-rate etc but also monitoring 'well-ness' and being able to intervene before serious events occur.

Teleradiology is already in use in the Hebrides, building on the broadband ConnectedCommunities network. Prof. Sim is able to get radiological images round the clock, and this service capability will expand significantly over the coming years.

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MIT Media Lab

Today and tomorrow we visit MIT - the Media Lab and Industrial Liason -  and the meetings kick off in earnest. Goal is to see if we can harness MIT developments, projects and people to healthcare in the Highlands and Islands - we have Prof. Sim the UHI Chair of Remote and Rural Medicine here and it promises to be a very interesting couple of days. I'll report more later on - I'm here today as Internet applications and research consultant, supporting the team by helping to evaluate candidate projects to explore further. We're meeting lots of researchers, post-docs and graduate students. Hoping to get a couple of podcasts and pictures up here from us all.

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