- Alder Hey's got a real place
in the history of Liverpool.
Because we're such a
big children's hospital,
there's not a single
post code in the country
that we don't take a child from.
And that unfortunately
involves moving children
quite a distance to come here.
So how could we not disrupt that child?
And we now have this amazing new hospital
trying to develop a technique
where we could use
immersive augmented reality.
- We are absolutely surrounded
an explosion of technology
that we don't use in medicine.
We need to use the technologies around
that we use every day at
home, every day in the office,
every day in different parts of our life
applied to medicine.
Because that would help us to improve
the way that we look after the patients
and improve the way that
we deliver health care.
There is a project that we've been working
called a HoloLens, which enables me
to use augmented reality.
We've been working with a
company called Black Marble.
- We've worked with Alder
Hey's innovation team
to produce applications using
the universal Windows platform
on HoloLens and Surface Hub.
These collaboration applications allow
multiple surgeons from
different disciplines
to collaborate on the patient records
using the Surface Hub and visualize those
during surgery on the HoloLens.
- The use of HoloLens for
distant consultations,
you don't need to travel
to the hospital to do that,
so I'm able to visualize,
I'm able to interact in their environment.
So it's what we call hospital at home,
but the true hospital at home
and a true doctor at home.
- Watching Rafael develop this platform
has been really exciting for me.
You know just imagine the
possibilities of this.
That is really what we're
about as an innovation hub,
it's facilitating our best people
to get out there and do
extraordinary things.
- We are absolutely passionate about that.
We live and dream with innovation.
Not just because we invent things,
it's because when we do something
it's to change healthcare,
and that would be huge.