InTouch Health, a provider of comprehensive telemedicine solutions, has stated that it has unveiled a new surgical telemonitoring system – RP Vantage.
RP-Vantage is an FDA-cleared product designed to enable surgical telementoring and remote collaboration in ORs and procedure rooms. As any other RP Endpoint device from InTouch Health, this system too enables physicians extend their presence across the entire healthcare delivery continuum – from primary and outpatient care, to acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care through a single interface.
InTouch Health has claimed that the RP Vantage is supposed to be its Healthcare Enterprises business unit which provides Remote Presence solutions for medical device companies to support medical education, product development, clinical study monitoring, training, and marketing initiatives.
The company added that with RP-Vantage, distant proctoring or learning surgeons can avoid the costs and inconveniences of travel and be virtually present to train and collaborate with on-site surgeons.
Physicians associated with The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, who participated in the clinical validation for RP-Vantage have stated that proctoring and training surgeons and interventional cardiologists on new and complex techniques, especially in the field of transcatheter heart valves, is an emerging area of need and at present there are significant challenges and constraints involving proctors and trainers traveling to distant locations to conduct in-person training.
And technologies like RP-Vantage offer tremendous promise in enabling experienced surgeons and cardiologists to mentor learning heart teams on new techniques, as well as collaborate on complex cases without the overhead costs and related challenges of scheduling and travel. This may ultimately allow more frequent interaction of proctors and trainees leading to quicker advancement up the learning curve, and thereby improving the quality of care and patient safety.
Charlie Huiner, Vice President of Healthcare Enterprises at InTouch Health has claimed that they are excited to launch RP-Vantage and look forward to working closely with medical device companies and their respective key surgeon opinion leaders to leverage this paradigm shifting technology to address the time and distance barriers, inefficiencies and costs of traditional models of surgeon education and training.
Nathesh is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
Juliana Kenny
