Santa cannot be everywhere. And a children’s hospital can be a sensitive environment where just the right touch and care is needed by a trained “Santa’s helper.” So Cisco Systems are trying to help out at Texas Children’s Hospital, and others around the nation with a new kind of Cyber-Santa. No doubt this is also serving as a field test of forthcoming tele-medicine technology we may be seeing more of in other settings. A way for physicians to consult with patients away from the office, and without them having to sit on the doctors lap.
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