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A new iPhone app allows medical staff to monitor a patient’s status. The Nashville Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Anesthesiology created an iPhone application called VigiVu. This new app allows for the monitoring of up to 4 patients at one time.
New iPhone App to Monitor Medical Patients
VUMC’s VigiVu allows doctors and other medical practitioners to use their iPhones to monitor a patient’s vital signs and even see into operating rooms during surgeries. The app also allows communication between the practitioners.
Is VigiVu a glimpse of things to come in the medical field? Will doctors be monitoring us from the golf course or Tahiti? It’s a cool app and a great way to stay connected, but I am a bit worried we will be dealing with less and less personal attention for our medical needs. Do you think the next iPhone app will be robotic surgery? Will the doctors ever have to see patients again? What’s next, remote viewing and healing through a psychic? Is there an app for that?
