The immersive concept provides eyes and ears on the ground from the clinical front line by streaming a broadcast to remote support for clinical or technical mentoring. By means of 2-way communication, this fulfils a quest to innovate and the concept supports decision-making, teamwork, productivity and not least patient safety.
It enables staff to abide by the COVID-19 boundaries (green Covid-free/blue Covid managed) to mitigate disease transmission as well as enabling general team support within a healthcare system.
Several wearable camera systems exist but the specific requirements pertaining to healthcare make many suboptimal. Surgeons wishing to harness a view of a procedure with precision broadcast might end up with neck pain leaning over to get the optimum view. This is not suitable for surgical broadcast and we see that developments for many camera systems will be required to allow a step change to virtual a reality.