Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2016
The virtual doctor is always on-site
TELEMEDICAL APPLICATION | The telemedical application Global Health Care (GHC) AescuLink in combination with the latest communication technology enables the immediate emergency care of patients at remote locations such as ships, oil platforms or offshore wind farms. Siemens manufactures and supplies the rugged WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) components, which form the basis of the telemedical application, as described in the following by Attila Komaromi from Siemens’s department of Process Industries and Drives.