Word: wockhardt
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...Bangalore, many elderly people live alone while their children, often globe-trotting software professionals, work far, far away. Sensing a need for interactive communication, Wockhardt launched its free virtual visits more than a year ago. After doctors clear an encounter, a digital camera records a patient's video message to the family and stores it on a laptop. The video is edited, compressed and stored on the Web. The website is password-accessible, and patients' records, doctors' updates and videos are kept confidential. (It also offers an online payment mechanism, so relatives anywhere can help out with medical bills...
...cool bangalore morning a month ago, Swayambu Viswanathan was discussing work with a colleague when he felt a sudden tightness in his chest and broke into a sweat. Rushed to a clinic, his ECG showed he had suffered a heart attack. Viswanathan, 59, was taken to Wockhardt, a heart specialty hospital, to undergo an angioplasty procedure to clear a clogged artery...
...able to do both. When his father came out of intensive care two days later, Ravi sat at home and watched him. Using Wockhardt's groundbreaking Virtual Family Visit, Ravi and his brother Karthik, 26, who works in London, logged on to the hospital's website (whhi.com) to get a firsthand medical update. "This is a new way of communicating," Viswanathan told his sons, as he lay in bed in his hospital pajamas. Ravi was relieved. "Just seeing my father gesticulate and talk was a great feeling," he says. In turn, Viswanathan perked up when his sons sent virtual cards...