U.Va. Neurologists Participating in New Initiative to Improve Stroke Care in Rural Communities
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 04:14
in Health & Medicine
Dr. Nina Solenski, a neurologist in the Primary Stroke Center at the University of Virginia Health System, has been busy learning to drive. Instead of a car, she's learning how to maneuver a robot over a wireless network using her laptop and a control stick. The robot, known as the Remote Presence Robotic System, or RP-7, will be used at U.Va. and its partner site, the 25-bed Bath Community Hospital in Hot Springs, to assess and talk with patients and their doctors from afar.
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