Praise for video-link help
Published: September 7, 2005
A form of video-link technology which has brought new meaning to home visits for families with terminally-ill children in South Yorkshire has today been praised by a children’s hospital charity.
The Isabel Telemedicine Project, named after the first patient to use the equipment, allows doctors to talk to parents via a video-link in the comfort of their own home.
The Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity helped to raise £30,000 from public donations towards the cost of the equipment, which has proved to be a major success with young patients and their families.
The charity says that the project has helped reduce the amount of time spent in hospital for children and can help reduce some of the stress of living with a terminal illness for children and their parents.
Julie Harrington, director of the Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity said :“This project has made a huge difference to a number of families across the region.
“Parents with very ill children who are caring for them at home go through an extremely stressful time. Every sneeze or wheeze can seem like it is something dreadful.
“The Isabel Telemedicine Project allows us to put these parents’ minds at rest without them having to go through the trauma of bringing their child constantly to and from the hospital.”
Video conferencing is widely used by companies across the world as an alternative to face-to-face meetings. For Sheffield Children’s Hospital this equipment is used for a method of communicating called Telemedicine.
Telemedicine brings the doctor into the family’s home with them actually having to leave the hospital. This links the doctors and nurses at the hospital with families in their homes, so that they can keep a close watch on patients and alleviate parents’ worries.
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