Innovative Medical Missions + Haiti
Innovative Medical Missions (IMM) is a program of The Harris Foundation designed to address disparities in access to healthcare in the developing world through the use of advanced medical technologies.
IMM will focus on telemedicine as a means of improving access to quality medical care, as telemedicine technology can be used to both diagnose and treat locally while connecting local healthcare providers to international support, data analytics, and research. IMM will utilize telemedicine to enable local healthcare providers to more accurately assess patients, provide onsite diagnosis and treatment, and maintain more accurate and comprehensive records of their patient populations with the support of diverse international academic and clinical partners.
IMM’s initial technology deployments have featured a LifeBot 5 donated to IMM by the Mark Paul Terk Charitable Trust. The LifeBot 5 is a groundbreaking telemedicine device designed to provide technological support to healthcare teams in even the most challenging environments. In June 2015, IMM partnered with LifeBot and Dr. Brian Scheele of Pacific Northwest Surgical Outreach (PNSO) for the inaugural deployment of this device to Belen, Peru.
The LifeBot 5 supported a team of PNSO doctors performing surgical outreach in resource limited communities in the Amazon region, where it served as a link to remote surgical support and as an intraoperative anesthesia monitor. The LifeBot 5 also collects data via its integrated electronic medical record that can be used to support planning for future healthcare outreach.
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