University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital offers parents video visits with NICU

Cedars Sinai LA iPad maternity wardUniversity of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital has launched a digital system that allows parents to keep an eye on their newborns who are in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a news segment aired on CBS Minneapolis.

In early 2013, the nurses at Cedars-Sinai discussed a similar system. They used unmodified iPads running Apple’s FaceTime to offer mothers the option to see their premature or sick babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) even if they were immobile while recovering from delivery or the infants were in isolation. The hospital named this service BabyTime    Read More 

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