IBM Blue Spruce Code Powers Platforms for Telehealth, COPD Research

IBM has donated its Project Blue Spruce software code to two health initiatives to enable real-time Web collaboration. Blue Spruce will allow for cobrowsing and online consultations in iTel's iTelepsych.com telehealth platform and also provide the infrastructure for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research study, called COPDGene, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Comprising a server and client software using a Web plug-in architecture, Blue Spruce is IBM's telepresence technology that allows multiple parties to collaborate in simultaneous online video chats and update content in Web browsers on a PC or iPad in real time (called cobrowsing)...