March 23, 2005

Robo-docs check in at Detroit Medical Center

The Detroit Medical Center today becomes the world\'s first hospital system to deploy an entire fleet of real robots that can see, hear, talk, scoot around and allow doctors to be in two places at once. The DMC installation is by far the biggest to date, with 10 robots and 19 control stations that allow patients to talk with doctors who might be at DMC\'s downtown Detroit campus, at Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital 38 miles away or at home in Bloomfield Hills. From a strategic standpoint, Mike Duggan, DMC president and CEO, says the robots will help pull the main DMC campus and Wayne State University Medical School into a more closely knit system with community hospitals Sinai-Grace and Huron Valley-Sinai.

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