USC's Virtual Care Clinic Now Making Hologram House Calls

At the opening of the 9th annual USC Body Computing Conference, Dr. Leslie Saxon screened a video of her image as a hologram in real time to her patient in Dubai. Dr. Saxon, a cardiologist and the conference's founder, calls it hologram house calls since she can speak with patients and walk them through treatment options without ever having to leave her office. 

Traditional healthcare is being transformed by digital healthcare systems and data analytics, which is driving new forms of health management and making care more personalized as well as more accessible. USC recently announced that their new Virtual Care Clinic will be developing two separate but interconnected technologies to correspond with the clinic's launch. The first are the hologram house calls that will allow physicians to visit their patients anywhere in the world. The second is an app that will ask users to enter their specifics and will then provide information about various treatments specifically designed for them. 

The center is working with Dr. Evidence, a software platform that pulls data from published clinical studies, FDA drug labels, and epidemiological databases to provide drug companies and specialists with the most current medical evidence on new drugs and treatments. The goal is to make this information available to patients to help them make better decisions concerning their health. Saxon believes that this will create a better healthcare system overall since prescriptions would be based on continuous, contextualized data and not just on a single patient visit. The new technologies are not yet complete but in time, they will help physicians see more patients and patients will have unprecedented access to medical data that will inspire better treatments and better healthcare.

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