{"id":8750,"date":"2024-06-29T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2024-06-29T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:27:58","slug":"your-hologram-doctor-will-see-you-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8750","title":{"rendered":"Your Hologram Doctor Will See You Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Texas hospital is experimenting with hologram technology for doctors to see patients. Some health care experts wonder if it\u2019s beneficial.<\/p>\n

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A patient walks into a hospital room, sits down and starts talking to a doctor. Only in this case, the doctor is a hologram.<\/p>\n

It might sound like science fiction, but it is the reality for some patients at Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas.<\/p>\n

In May, the hospital group began offering patients the ability to see their doctor remotely as a hologram through a partnership with Holoconnects, a digital technology firm based in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Each Holobox \u2014 the company\u2019s name for its 440-pound, 7-foot-tall device that displays on a screen a highly realistic, 3-D live video of a person \u2014 costs $42,000, with an additional annual service fee of $1,900.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The high-quality image gives the patient the feeling that a doctor is sitting inside the box, when in reality the doctor is miles away looking into cameras and displays showing the patient.<\/p>\n

The system allows the patient and doctor to have a telehealth visit in real time that feels more like an in-person conversation. For now, the service is used mostly for pre- and postoperative visits.<\/p>\n

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A Texas hospital is experimenting with hologram technology for doctors to see patients. Some health care experts wonder if it\u2019s beneficial.A patient walks into a hospital room, sits down and starts talking to a doctor. Only in this case, the doctor is a hologram.It might sound like science fiction, but it is the reality for some patients at Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas.In May, the hospital group began offering patients the ability to see their doctor remotely as a hologram through a partnership with Holoconnects, a digital technology firm based in the Netherlands.Each Holobox \u2014 the company\u2019s name for its 440-pound, 7-foot-tall device that displays on a screen a highly realistic, 3-D live video of a person \u2014 costs $42,000, with an additional annual service fee of $1,900.The high-quality image gives the patient the feeling that a doctor is sitting inside the box, when in reality the doctor is miles away looking into cameras and displays showing the patient.The system allows the patient and doctor to have a telehealth visit in real time that feels more like an in-person conversation. For now, the service is used mostly for pre- and postoperative visits.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8752,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}