San Jose-based telehealth firm VSee Well being and Ava Robotics, creator of clever robots for the office, introduced their partnership to create an autonomous VSee-powered Ava robotic to be used in a hospital inpatient intensive care unit.
VSee’s SaaS platform, which permits clinicians and enterprises to create telehealth workflows, will energy the robotic. The robotic will allow distant physicians to be on the bedside to ship affected person care within the ICU and work with onsite employees.
“Not solely will sufferers obtain one of the best experience out there and higher care, no matter location, however hospitals will have the ability to ship a brand new, heightened degree of care, lowering transfers and prices related to important care and stroke,” Dr. Imo Aisiku, co-CEO and chairman of VSee Well being, stated in an announcement.
“With the primary industrial product launched in June, the Ava Robotic is anticipated to have the ability to enhance tele-stroke operations, and extra makes use of might be recognized within the medical subject as use of the Robotic expands.”
THE LARGER TREND
Quite a few robotics firms are working to handle staffing shortages in expert labor seen all through the care setting.
Diligent Robotics, maker of the autonomous scientific assist robotic Moxi, which performs supply duties for hospital staff that aren’t patient-facing, reminiscent of bringing provides from central storage, delivering lab samples, getting sufferers’ objects, distributing private protecting gear and transferring light-weight gear between items and delivering drugs.
Diligent launched in 2019 with $3 million in seed funding. A yr later, it raised $10 million in a Sequence A funding spherical.
In 2022, the corporate secured greater than $30 million in Sequence B funding, and final yr, it raised $25 million in new financing.
One other firm within the area is Movia, which is wanting to make use of robots paired with software program to assist youngsters with autism and different developmental and mental disabilities be taught new expertise.
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