Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: 4 Robots That Are Changing the Methods of Healthcare

The role of robots is gaining more and more field every day in the healthcare sector. They are used in modern medicine to train nurses, doctors and dentists, they also work to comfort and protect elderly patients in early stages of dementia, robots also help people after diverse types of traumas, etc.  The use of these new inventions can help doctors and other professionals to smaller incisions for shorter surgeries, reducing hospital stays and improving patients' prognoses and saving costs. Everything we mentioned and even more is facing the future of medicine, and today, MIGLOBAL will present you 4 of these robots that are changing the methods of healthcare.

1. Sofie

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Sofie

The Surgeon's Operating Force-feedback Interface Eindhoven (Sofie) consists of a master robotics setup, joysticks and a surgeon's control panel. Sofie is not on the floor, but mounted on the operating table. Van den Bedem built the robot with the help of the Eindhoven University's technical department, which patented the process. This robot incorporates force feedback, which can allow specialists to feel the pressure they apply when making a suture or pushing aside a bit of tissue. 

2. RIBA

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: RIBA

The Robot for Interactive Body Assistance (RIBA) is designed to lift people who are too weak or ill to sit, walk, or stand by themselves. RIBA has 454 sensors in its arms; it also has a motor for lifting people and a soft urethane foam skin for comfort. RIBA can respond to commands and is trained to recognize faces and voices.

3. Lokomat

Some people that lose their ability to walk and turn after suffering a stroke, spinal cord damage, traumatic brain injury or other harm to the central nervous system. For these people, Lokomat was created. Robot-based technologies such as Lokomat combine medical and engineering approaches in order to help patients regain mobility faster, with less pain. 

4. NeuroArm

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: NeuroArm

The neuroArm allows a surgeon to perform biopsies and other interventions on patient’s brains while processing MRI scans of the patient; this helps the surgeon to be oriented and guided through the operation.

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Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: MIGLOBAL: Supplies and Equipment

MIGLOBAL always offering its great catalog

The company leader in hospital infrastructure and equipment for the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean, MIGLOBAL Group, is a company that will continue to expand this 2016, as information reported by the Project Director, Julio Paez-Pumar, during an interview in which he gave different details about the new business developments of MIGLOBAL Group.

Julio Paez-Pumar said that the company is currently participating in several tenders to carry and remodel various hospitals in Venezuela and the rest of the continent in order to start being part of construction force in “Ciudad Salud” in Panama, which, according to Julio Paez-Pumar, is probably one of the biggest hospital centers and constructions in Latin America.

Following every step of their projects

Similarly, Paez-Pumar said that the markets have displayed the islands of the Caribbean and the South American continent, where they aspire to reach countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, in which several construction works have already started. According to his information, Chile is one of those South American countries where MIGLOBAL found interesting opportunities for projects, however, they at the company know it is a complex health market; he also said that the company is open for new ideas and projects in Argentina, and in Peru they are doing some general exploration. It is clear that the company is not closed to any market, all opportunities can be taken.

For example, in the case of Chile, MIGLOBAL Group took part in the last ExpoHospital in Chile, where about 115 companies were participating and offering their technology proposals to enhance health management in that country and in the rest of Latin America. The event was held at the Espacio Riesco in Santiago in July of 2015 and it was the right place for many healthcare providers for them to display their technologies, products and services for hospitals, clinics and laboratories.

MIGLOBAL

In Central America, the company aspires to have a great presence in Honduras, Guatemala and also in Costa Rica. The executive explained that thanks to the characteristics and references of the company, a unique and comprehensive product has been properly promoted and has made that MIGLOBAL can offer different solutions that the customer needs and also enough flexibility to continue being reference in the health sector.

Iván Moreno Plaza: Telemedicine, Education and Treatment at MIGLOBAL

Healthcare Hospital Management Systems

Needs in the health sector have to be assisted by Education, Treatment and Care, those aspects are the base. And this principle has been well understood by the entire team working at MIGLOBAL; therefore lot of effort, work and investment has been put into the development of relevant options and in tune with the times, as in the case of projects in the area of telemedicine include several lines of work that lead to the best possible answer.

Telemedicine

It is defined as the integration of the various medical specialties through the use of technology and telecommunications. These methods have made strides worldwide and it stays ahead of the health field. MIGLOBAL has required the reunion of high quality elements and proven efficiency for the development of projects such as:

Medical Training

1. Healthcare Hospital Management Systems designed to optimize the management of vital services in the health centers, thus digital information files, medical records, controls and procedures as well as radiological examinations, ultrasound and others that can work much more effectively thanks to the technology.

2. Centers for Continuing Education and Professional Medical Training as in the case of CIAHRS (Iniciation Course of Arthroscopy in Shoulder and Knee with Virtual Simulation) or MISURGICAL, a draft training and education center confluence of the cream of medicine internationally, which is still in planning process, are two good examples of this section.

3. Learning achieved using simulation technology, distance learning and other tools that are provided only aim to increase the value of human knowledge and experience within this area.