Technology is a cost-effective and increasingly potent means to connect
clinics in the vast and medically underserved rural regions of the
United States with big city medical centers and their specialists.
Telemedicine is well established as a tool for triage and assessment in
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The RP-VITA® robot was designed to transform the delivery of acute care by expanding the use
of remote consults and increasing workflow efficiency.
InTouch Health products are the only Class II telemedicine remote presence
medical devices of their kind on the market that are cleared by the FDA
for "active patient monitoring in high-acuity clinical environments where
immediate clinical action may be required." This includes pre- and
perioperative, post-surgical, cardiovascular, neurological, pre-natal,
psychological and critical care environments as well as psychological and
critical care assessments and examinations.