RoboDoc helps treat respiratory complication in Dubai

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A doctor from Rashid Hospital communicates with a team at Hatta Hospital to provide consultation through RoboDoc.
A doctor from Rashid Hospital communicates with a team at Hatta Hospital to provide consultation through RoboDoc.

Dubai - RoboDocs have been placed at Hatta Hospital's emergency department and the DHA's 24-hour primary healthcare centres.

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Published: Tue 21 Mar 2017, 8:00 PM

Last updated: Tue 21 Mar 2017, 10:14 PM

The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has begun the implementation of its much-awaited RoboDoc project. The first patient to undergo treatment using this advanced technology was based at the Hatta Hospital.
Doctors from Rashid Hospital's respiratory department communicated with the team of doctors at Hatta Hospital to provide specialised consultation and respiratory management for the 40-year-old patient with respiratory complications.
The DHA is the first government health organisation in the region to implement telehealth. RoboDocs have been placed at Hatta Hospital's emergency department and the DHA's 24-hour primary healthcare centres - Al Barsha and Nad Al Hammar - and they are linked to Rashid Hospital's trauma centre.
The authority will soon roll out this initiative across all DHA hospitals and health centres. The authority will also extend the Dubai RoboDoc initiative to home-care patients. A nurse will visit the home-care patients and dial in for teleconsultations if needed.
Dr Moin Fikree, medical director of trauma centre and lead for the DHA's telemedicine initiative, said: "Telemedicine ensures immediate access to specialised consultation, which is particularly helpful in emergency situations. It also reduces the transfer of patients to Rashid Hospital.
"In this particular case, it saved the patient six hours of travel time and additional consultations. Therefore, the benefits are multi-fold: Firstly and most importantly, the patient gets immediate access to highly specialised care; it saves travel time and processing time at the receiving healthcare facility; and it brings down the cost of healthcare tremendously."
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