With a camera, audio equipment, and an LCD screen, VGo is essentially a teleconferencing system on wheels, and doctors at Boston Children’s are using it to check in on their young patients remotely.
With a VGo, Nguyen can send patients home earlier and provide surgical care remotely. The doctor doesn’t have to call a patient back into the hospital to check on surgical scars, instead they can get high-resolution images from the robot. Boston Children’s has been using five of these $6,000 robots in its initial pilot program and so far the results are promising.
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VGo Communications, Inc. develops and markets visual communications solutions for the workplace. The company was founded in 2007 by experienced successful veterans of visual communications and robotics industries. VGo Communications is VC backed and is based in Nashua, NH.
VGo: Sending Patients Home With Robots