University of Phoenix makes donation
December 2008
The University of Phoenix made a gift of $250,000 to Barrow Neurological Institute to support the institute’s work in making cutting-edge health care available to rural areas of Arizona.
The generous gift will go toward creating virtual examining rooms in remote clinics in Arizona.
“These examining rooms will be part of conventional rural clinics but will have the ability to enter into a real time TelePresence session with a remote Barrow physician,” says Shez Partovi, MD, chief medical information officer at Barrow. “The life-size interactive experience will remove the sense of distance and allow the patient and their loved ones to be in one space together with their local physician and a Barrow physician.”
Devices such as remote-stethoscopes, remote-ophthalmoscopes, and remote-otoscopes will allow Barrow physicians to perform assisted examinations and assessments on patients in these clinics.
“These TelePresence exam rooms will benefit not only patients, but also physicians in those rural communities,” Dr. Partovi says. “With the TelePresence technology in their clinics, they will be able to work alongside Barrow subspecialists during patient care and hone their skills through mentorship-style education customary in residency training programs.”
