Bairnsdale Regional Health Service (BRHS) has completed its rollout of ground-breaking Microsoft HoloLens augmented technology across East Gippsland, which is already bringing specialist healthcare much closer to even our remotest communities.
Now, Orbost Regional Health (ORH) is considering how satellite internet connectivity that drives HoloLens can be made more mobile in the near future.
BRHS partnered with Microsoft and tech solutions company Velrada in a successful trial of HoloLens at the Dargo Bush Nursing Centre in mid-2022.
Commonly used for construction and military purposes, this is believed to be the world-first application of the technology in a medical setting.
HoloLens allows a specialist doctor anywhere in the world to meet a clinician and patient in a remote location in a virtual consulting room in which the remote clinician uses a headset to give a treating doctor real-time vision and audio and allows them to direct care.
Mapping technology within HoloLens allows a specialist treating a patient needing ongoing wound care to trace the extent of the wound, see how it’s healing, see and hear the patient and clinician in real time and draw a virtual diagram to direct the clinician how they want the wound treated.
IMAGE: Bairnsdale Regional Health Service (BRHS) East Gippsland telehealth lead, Darin Roy, trains Orbost Regional Health director community services, Mitch Schwenke, to use HoloLens. (PS)
