San Jose-based telehealth firm VSee Well being and Ava Robotics, creator of clever robots for the office, introduced their partnership to create an autonomous VSee-powered Ava robotic to be used in a hospital inpatient intensive care unit.
VSee’s SaaS platform, which permits clinicians and enterprises to create telehealth workflows, will energy the robotic. The robotic will allow distant physicians to be on the bedside to ship affected person care within the ICU and work with onsite employees.
“Not solely will sufferers obtain the very best experience accessible and higher care, no matter location, however hospitals will have the ability to ship a brand new, heightened stage of care, decreasing transfers and prices related to essential care and stroke,” Dr. Imo Aisiku, co-CEO and chairman of VSee Well being, mentioned in an announcement.
“With the primary industrial product launched in June, the Ava Robotic is anticipated to have the ability to enhance tele-stroke operations, and extra makes use of shall be recognized within the medical subject as use of the Robotic expands.”
THE LARGER TREND
Quite a few robotics firms are working to handle staffing shortages in expert labor seen all through the care setting.
Diligent Robotics, maker of the autonomous medical assist robotic Moxi, which performs supply duties for hospital staff that aren’t patient-facing, resembling bringing provides from central storage, delivering lab samples, getting sufferers’ gadgets, distributing private protecting tools and transferring light-weight tools between items and delivering drugs.
Diligent launched in 2019 with $3 million in seed funding. A yr later, it raised $10 million in a Sequence A funding spherical.
In 2022, the corporate secured greater than $30 million in Sequence B funding, and final yr, it raised $25 million in new financing.
One other firm within the house is Movia, which is trying to make use of robots paired with software program to assist kids with autism and different developmental and mental disabilities study new abilities.
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