- Google and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York have teamed up amid the coronavirus pandemic for a partnership that involves using Nest Cams to remotely monitor patients.
- The benefit is that this frees up health care workers from having to be in close contact with the patients as much, which also will save on the use of protective equipment.
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Doctors and nurses are being rightfully recognized as the heroes of the coronavirus pandemic for being on the front lines of the crisis and potentially putting themselves in harm’s way, risking their health whenever they come into close contact with the COVID-19 patients they have to check up on and provide urgent care for.
Multiply that by some multiple that encompasses the numerous patient interactions that occur each day at hospitals around the country, not to mention the much-in-demand protective equipment they have to wear to do so, and you begin to see the cost associated with this risk. This is why Google has teamed up with one New York hospital on a system that uses technology to make remote monitoring of coronavirus patients possible, curbing the risk to health workers and preserving their valuable protective gear in the process.
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