医疗中心正在测试用新的、友好的方式来减少病人到医院就诊的需要。方法是让他们的“化身”来到病人家中。走进加州圣马特奥医疗中心健身房的病人大多是到这里和理疗师一起做康复训练。但有几个做过膝关节置换术的病人却是由一名电子医生指导的。这个医生的化身名叫莫莉(Molly)。在视频指导病人做操的过程中,她用西班牙语或英语询问他们感觉疼痛的程度,同时,一台Kinet设备的三维摄像头测量他们的身 Medical centers are testing ways to reduce the need for patients to hospital for treatment in new, friendly ways. The way is to have their “avatars” come to the patient’s home. Most of the patients who walked into the gym at the San Mateo Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., Came here to do rehabilitation work with physiotherapists. However, several patients who underwent knee arthroplasty were instructed by an electronic doctor. The doctor’s incarnation is Molly. While the video instructs the patient to do exercises, she asks in Spanish or English how painful they are, while a Kinet device’s 3D camera measures their body