3-D holograms make virtual cancer care ’emotional’

Jennifer Byrne of Healio’s HemOnc vertical wrote about West Cancer Center becoming the first health care organization to provide actual doctor-patient visits — and that the successful program has expanded to another clinic. “Nothing compares with a face-to-face visit between a doctor and a patient, but we were pleasantly surprised how the Proto hologram experience felt like the doctor was actually in the room,” Sylvia Richey, MD, medical oncologist and chief medical officer at West Cancer Center told Healio. “If you think about looking at a smart phone, tablet or even a computer, you are only getting a fraction of visual content vs. a 3-D image in a box. The patient feels like the doctor is in the clinic with them, and the doctor is seeing the patient and communicating in real time.”