School of Medicine to break ground on state-of-the-art telemedicine center

University of California Irvine pursuing telemedicine education...to be built at the current Irvine Hall Courtyard...to enhance telemedicine throughout California...BD

Medicine in the future won’t be limited to the hospital setting. Emerging digital technologies are creating a field called telemedicine, which is helping bridge one of the largest gaps in healthcare today – access to high-level, specialized care for people who live in rural or remote areas.
To help accelerate this evolution, the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine will construct a medical education building on campus that will include a state-of-the-art telemedicine training center. The centerpiece to the building will be its telemedicine facility, which will include a 60-seat interactive televideo center, a clinical simulation lab and clinical skills center. Students will utilize digitally controlled, full-body simulators in operating-room and trauma-room settings, and the televideo room will allow students to see medicine practiced at distant locations with real-time ability to communicate with clinical instructors.