The technology allowing self-isolating NHS staff to support the front line

Proximie is being deployed across a number of NHS sites, to support the national efforts to fight COVID-19. Proximie uses a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, aimed to empower surgeons and clinicians, to virtually and practically interact with each other from anywhere. The platform, which was founded by Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram FRCS (Plast), BEM, consultant plastic surgeon and head of clinical innovation at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, is being used across a host of NHS sites, as the country battles the pandemic. From enabling self-isolating clinicians to remotely support colleagues on the front line, to virtually connecting MDTs for hand trauma and cancer management, so that every clinician can connect and collaborate off site during COVID-19, the platform is being applied in a number of different ways to support and amplify frontline clinicians. Using augmented reality, healthcare practitioners can remotely interact in a procedure or assessment from start to finish, and mentor a local clinician through a live operation, in a visually and intuitive way.