Telemedicine
Queen Victoria Hospital has a unique system of telemedicine, enabling badly injured patients in England’s south east to receive immediate care from top specialist burns & plastic, maxillofacial and corneoplastic surgeons. The system involves A&E departments in over 40 referring hospitals in the area, allowing them to send images and clinical information in an encrypted format to specialists at the QVH.
The QVH telemedicine system has been chosen to form part of the Institute of Engineering & Technology's 2008 Faraday Lecture on the overall theme of engineering in health, and has been included in a documentary.
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