In a Richmond, VA. hospital, tetraplegics in the ICU who are unable to move by themselves are communicating and staying connected to the outside world, by controlling an overhead laptop’s cursor using their eye instead of a mouse.
Elsewhere, a new mother is opening up a web portal on a tablet to watch her newborn via live video feed from the NICU. And in San Francisco, pediatric patients are finding their hospitalizations a little less scary and confusing, thanks to tablets loaded with education and entertainment apps that they can easily access from their beds.
