Doctors at hospitals in rural Ghana are delivering new levels of lifesaving healthcare to remote areas of the country without traveling to see patients in person. Mahiri Mobile Services of Accra has outfitted nurses in rural villages with wireless tablets that receive high quality and live medical-grade videos from telmedx located in San Diego back to doctors in Tamale and Nsawarm in Ghana with medical advice.
The mobile video platform developed by telmedx allows a doctor on a web browser to examine patients over the high resolution cameras of mobile phones and tablets for live real-time consultations.
Doctors can also take high resolution photos of patients from a web browser by remotely controlling the back camera of wireless phones and tablets. The live video and still photos appear side-by-side on a computer screen and can easily be included in medical records. The platform also enables multiple doctors or specialists to watch the same live videos so that each doctor can capture their own still photos for closer analysis.
Mahiri Mobile has also developed a system that enables nurses to gather patient information and assign patient records using the telemedicine platform. In less than two months, more than 250 patients have been treated with the Mahiri-telmedx system.
“The video resolution and image quality delivered by the telmedx platform are unparalleled,” reports Diana Dwamena, Founder of Mahiri Mobile. “At first, the doctors and nurses were skeptical, but now they realize that this technology helps them deliver the quality of care they desire. This is the way forward.”
For more information, go to www.telmedx.com or contact Clint Carney, Vice President for Business Development & External Affairs at ccarney@telmedx.com or call +1 619-917-6003.