High Tech In The Hospital

We just got back from Valley Medical Center, where they're taking technology that we take for granted every day, and doing something extraordinary with it.

The hospital rooms inside the trauma center are small .. as one patient told me, the only things that change are the clock and the television set. But thanks to something as basic as a laptop computer, and a wifi network, patients can now travel, virtually, to the outside world.

Dorothy Hushing-Kline is a 16-year old patient at VMC. A drunk driver hit her car on january 18, leaving her with a severe brain injury, and a family struggling to cope. Her recovery is remarkable, and today she goes home, two weeks early. The fact that she's been able to communicate with her family and friends every day is thanks to VMC's wifi network, and a computer that was donated.

In fact, Dorothy's mom says as soon as Dorothy started to communicate via her laptop, her mood changed, and her brain started functioning better by the day. Her laptop was not only a window to the world .. it was a way to help her recover, and got home.