Voyager's holographic doctor from Star Trek is now a reality

In Star Trek: Voyager, the Emergency Medical Hologram was a holographic doctor activated when human physicians weren't available. He could see any patient, in any room, the moment they needed care. It was a useful piece of science fiction, the kind that quietly identifies a real-world problem (uneven access to medical specialists) and gestures at a solution that we couldn't yet build.

We can build it now. Holoconnects' Holobox brings life size, real time holographic specialists into clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies, anywhere the patient is. The doctor is real; the technology that lets the doctor appear elsewhere is what's new.

What's different from sci-fi

The TV version was autonomous AI. Our version is the human doctor projected as a hologram, practising real medicine, building a real patient relationship, without the geographic constraint. The clinical responsibility, the bedside manner, the continuity of care: all human. Just no longer bound to where the doctor's body happens to be.

Crescent Regional Hospital in Texas, Stroomz Pharmacy in the Netherlands, and a growing list of partners are already running this in production. The science fiction stopped being fictional.