TELEVISED MEDICINE

Any medical professional will tell you that given the two options, bring the patient to the camera or bring the camera to the patient, the camera is what needs to move, not the patient. Telemedicine has become important in recent years as the shortage of doctors has deprived remote communities of medical treatment, and resulted in the need for technological solutions.

With our camera controls and robotic heads, high quality cameras with carefully selected lenses can be provided to medical practitioners who may be dozens or even thousands of miles away from their patients.  Medical professionals know that space around a patient is critical during emergency care, and camera robotics that displace trained medical assistants may be a non-starter.  Our compact heads are capable of being mounted so that the camera can hang above a medical bed, or on a pedestal where the camera pan/tilt can use its excellent range of motion to get in on the action without taking up critical space.  This is especially true since a medical professional can "drive" their own camera rather than having to waste time passing instructions on camera movement to an assistant on site.

Another fact of life in busy medical centers is that patient influx often exceeds the available medical staffing.  

A patient who lacks a medical specialist's diagnosis can die waiting for aid when the professional they need is en-route.   Many medical professionals know the feeling of wishing they could be in two places at once, or could divide their attentions between multiple patients separated by space.

In telemedicine, on-staff specialists can control up to four cameras from a single control point, and those cameras can be located anywhere that Internet access can be setup.  In cases where telemedicine is the only choice, an expert in a medical center can rapidly offer skilled medical opinions to multiple beds, each of which would have to wait hours or even days for their services if they were to travel between the facilities.  Since the cameras used can be high resolution with good zoom lenses, the professional can steer their camera in and see injuries first hand. In fact, our robotic cameras are just one piece of the successful telemedicine puzzle.  Using  professional DSLRs, such as the Canon 5D, extremely high resolution still imaging can be produced along with high definition video.  Combined with the digital outputs of most medical imaging devices, a medical professional can be supplied with the most information possible to make a diagnosis in their specialization.