InTouch Health Releases IPad App

By Danielle Lucey

The ControlStation telemedicine app for the iPad. Photo courtesy InTouch Health.

Telemedicine company InTouch Health has released an app for the iPad, called ControlStation, so doctors can consult with patients in real-time through a commercially available interface. 

The iPad app allows for communication between a doctor and a patient in a facility with the newly FDA-approved RP-VITA telemedicine robot. The app integrates patient data and medical radiology tools through a single-user login.

“The advent of the CS App for iPad provides an unmatched interface for doctors to deliver acute care telemedicine,” says Yulun Wang, Ph.D., chairman and CEO of InTouch Health. “Through one pane of glass, doctors now have at their fingertips all the tools — clinical patient data, medical imaging and immersive remote presence — to provide complete patient consults from anywhere.”

InTouch has worked with medical facilities to validate the ControlStation app. 

"I could see the overwhelming enthusiasm from the doctors across the various medical specialties for which we provide remote services to our member hospitals,” says Jim Roxburgh, director of the Dignity Health Mercy Telehealth Network. “I can easily envision providing this enabling capability for the more than 100 doctors who routinely provide call coverage for our hospitals.”

According to the company’s website, InTouch Health has performed more than 273,000 remote sessions to date.