Ghana to Deploy Telemedicine to Extend Healthcare to Far-Flung Regions

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In its real-life application, 3D telemedicine could remotely facilitate pre and post-operative consultations. Once surgery has been carried out, it gives them a chance to follow up and monitor healing.

3D cameras are revolutionizing the healthcare system in Ghana as they can capture images from a distance and all angles, enabling doctors sitting far away to see the exact details of the ailment of a patient. Not only that, but with the use of 3D cameras, a patient can be examined by different doctors, and suggest the right type of treatment.

 In its real-life application, 3D telemedicine could facilitate pre- and post-operative consultations entirely remotely. Once surgery has been carried out, it gives them a chance to follow up and monitor healing.

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Spencer Fowers, principal engineer with the Microsoft 3D telemedicine project, hopes the trial that is taking place in Ghana can show the feasibility of 3D telemedicine.  If somebody is in a remote part of a country where he or she doesn’t have access to these specialised services but needs them, the referring doctor could use this telemedicine thing to get access to the best of care