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Michigan Stroke Network - off and running with 22 RP-7 Robots installed throughout Michigan State

The Michigan Stroke Network (MSN) is a collaborative network of hospitals providing innovative stroke care across the state. Through the use of Remote Presence Robots, the network ensures that hospitals across Michigan, regardless of their size, location or resources, can offer every patient the most advanced stroke care available.

Through the use of telemedicine, specialists in the network can perform consultations over the Internet. Using Remote Presence robotics in a hub and spoke model, neuroendovascular specialists can consult with medical teams in hospital emergency centers across the state of Michigan. This approach improves timely access to specialty care and reduces the need for exhausting travel and unnecessary patient transports.

"From any Starbucks or library or in their home, through Internet connectivity... a physician here can be in the Thumb of Michigan at a rural, critical-access hospital, providing bedside assistance to the emergency room physician," St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Chief Executive Jack Weiner said in an interview.


Dr. Fessler, a neuro-
endovascular specialist
for the Michigan Stroke
Network, on the RP-7