Telemedicine solution provider American Educational Telecommunications, or AET, is making waves in the medical field with telepresence technology. The company recently completed a real-time remote diagnosis of a newborn baby’s heart murmur between Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Neb. and Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb.

Medical doctors performed the diagnosis using advanced wireless video conferencing technology through a mobile camera device connected to an ultrasound machine.The patient was a baby boy, one of triplets delivered by Dr. Keith Vrbicky, at Midwest Health Partners and an attending physician at Faith Regional Health Services. The infant’s pediatrician, Dr. Jayan Vasudevan became concerned about the heart murmur while performing a post natal examination. When Vasudevan requested a consult with a pediatric cardiologist to diagnose the severity of the murmur, the closest pediatric cardiologist was 115 miles away at the Children’s Hospital & Medical Center.The doctors then agreed to set up a telemedicine consult using a remote echocardiogram system connected to a mobile and wireless transmitting video conferencing device, than to transport the baby to Omaha.

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