Seat Pleasant rolls out telehealth system in COVID-19 effort

Souce: Smart Cities World Published: March 27, 2020

Seat Pleasant calls itself “the world’s first authentic small smart city” and has a high proportion of low-income and vulnerable people, making it an ideal launch location for the technology, which could be expanded nationally.

The small community of Seat Pleasant in Maryland is the launch city for a telehealth system, which integrates with its smart city data hub, to support the management of coronavirus (COVID-19) among the most vulnerable citizens.

Seat Pleasant, located 10 miles from Washington and with a population of just 4,800 people, is working with health analytics company EagleForce and healthcare consulting firm Freedmen’s Health, as well as Amazon and Sprint, to deploy remote healthcare services.

EagleForce and Freedmen’s Health have committed in-kind resources worth $200 million to support a nationwide programme, to include remote monitoring web-enabled tablets, medical monitoring devices and associated software.

Seat Pleasant calls itself “the world’s first authentic small smart city”. It has a high proportion of low-income and older, vulnerable people, making it an ideal launch city for the technology.