Image via WikipediaToday's medical world increasingly sophisticated with new technology that Live Webcam Video Streaming ( audio is not recorded) to be placed at five private hospitals around New South Wales starting next month. The Sunday Telegraph, 26 September 2010, published the article “Never too young to get online webcam babies” mentioned that the aims of online webcam babies is to facilitate the parents monitoring a newborn or baby who is requiring treatment directly from a distance. The webcam has been operating earlier in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Canberra.
A company known by the name of Look @ MyBaby operating in Melbourne is responsible for providing the video camera assembly which is placed in the cribs with an iPod sized at the hospital. According to the Executive Director Clayton Neilson, by the year 2011 is expected to be a video camera installed in 100 hospitals and an estimated 200,000 babies a year may be filmed. In addition, this technology will also be implemented in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
The use of video cameras for the first time practiced in the Mater Hospital, Townsville, since 18 months ago to help military headquarters near the video camera was connected through to see their newborn babies while they was working outside the area. With the existence of such technology, parents can monitor their babies of all the time even in the middle of the night with helping by the staff at hospital to open the video. They also be able to share live video with their relatives or friends (if they have sign up receive a link to website or can be shared through Facebook). This video is safe to use because a user has the password and IP address.
I find this video camera is very good to practice through all hospital. Parents of newborn babies who require intensive care don’t have to commute to the hospital every time. Usually, baby, who is requiring intensive care, requires a long time in the hospital, so the video camera is an advantage for parents , especially if the distance of their home or place of work far away from the hospital.
Unfortunately, if the baby is monitored via video camera, of course, his parents rarely visited him in hospital, and as we all know, babies can feel the presence of his parents through their touch. For a baby who has an illness, of course, needs more proper care and supervision, but there are times when the hospital staff may not be watching at all times as necessary to divide the monitoring of other babies. With this, caring parents should play an important role to solve this problem.
It would be fair if it is not just infants who received such facilities, but patients such as children and adults who require close attention should also be given this facility, so the patient's family is certainly getting quick feedback on the patient's condition is the only watch live via video camera.
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what a nice way to end the analysis. I agree with what youre saying that there should be fairness for both kids and adults
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