Currently, we're exploring a very interesting innovation. The intervention is done using the video camera, but it's all virtual, and it guides the person through the whole assessment. The screen is very simple. It's not a lot of big check boxes, so it helps the person who might have a disability to go at their own pace and fill it up online, either in the presence of a health care practitioner or not.
This is very interesting for me particularly because it speaks to the issues of people with pain disorders, which are chronic. It also helps them do that and be able to do this. We can do this remotely as well as in the clinic.
That's one example with people who might have head injuries and some of these cognitive problems. You can slow it down without necessarily slowing down the clinician, who is often very pressed for time, very pressed to get things done. It becomes an enabler for helping that kind of assessment happen.
The good thing about those kinds of systems is at the back end you can start collecting those data and real-time decision-making is possible to see what kinds of trends.... For example, in my hospital we just did a quick survey, and we found that 30% of people coming in for addiction treatment have a history of a head injury. If you're trying to get that population into care, and you talk to them in high language and expect them to grab concepts, they're not going to do well.
So technology can help us. We need these systems, not only at the interface, but also at the back end, to rapidly tell us what's going on.