Medical cart system

A cart comprising:

• an enclosure including a connecting portion;
• an interface assembly including a display, a speaker, a camera and a microphone, and operatively connected to the enclosure at least at the connecting portion, the connecting portion operable to reposition the interface assembly from a transporting configuration in which the display, the speaker, the camera and the microphone are disposed inside the enclosure to a deployed configuration in which the display, the speaker, the camera and the microphone are disposed outside of the enclosure;
• a set of wheels operably connected to at least one of the enclosure or another portion of the cart to, in the transporting configuration transport the cart on a transporting surface;
• and
• a communication module configured to receive a video and audio communication corresponding to a transmission from a doctor at a location remote from a location of the cart and further configured to cause the video to show on the display and the audio to play through the speaker, the communication module further configured to receive a video image from the camera and sound from the microphone and to transmit the video image and the sound to the location remote from the location of the cart.

A cart comprising:

• an enclosure including a connecting portion;
• an interface assembly including a display, a speaker, a camera and a microphone, and operatively connected to the enclosure at least at the connecting portion, the connecting portion operable to reposition the interface assembly from a transporting configuration in which the display, the speaker, the camera and the microphone are disposed inside the enclosure to a deployed configuration in which the display, the speaker, the camera and the microphone are disposed outside of the enclosure;
• a pivoting assembly pivotably disposed in relation to the enclosure;
• a set of wheels operably connected to at least one of the enclosure or the pivoting assembly, the pivoting assembly operable to pivot from the transporting configuration in which only the set of wheels makes contact with a transporting surface to the deployed configuration in which a portion of the cart in addition to the set of wheels (e.g., a second set of wheels) makes contact with the transporting surface for stabilizing the cart in the deployed configuration;
• and
• a tray hingedly connected to the interface assembly and foldable from the deployed configuration in which the tray opens away from the interface assembly such that the tray is substantially parallel to the transporting surface to the transporting configuration in which the tray folds towards the interface assembly such that the tray is substantially parallel to a major axis of the interface assembly.

A cart comprising:

• an enclosure including a connecting portion;
• an interface assembly including a display, a speaker, a camera and a microphone, and operatively connected to the enclosure at least at the connecting portion, the connecting portion operable to reposition the interface assembly from a transporting configuration in which the display, the speaker, the camera and the microphone are disposed inside the enclosure to a deployed configuration in which the display, the speaker, the camera and the microphone are disposed outside of the enclosure;
• a pivoting assembly pivotably disposed in relation to the enclosure;
• a set of wheels operably connected to at least one of the enclosure or the pivoting assembly, the pivoting assembly operable to pivot from the transporting configuration in which only the set of wheels makes contact with a transporting surface to the deployed configuration in which a portion of the cart in addition to the set of wheels makes contact with the transporting surface for stabilizing the cart in the deployed configuration;
• a tray hingedly connected to the interface assembly and foldable from the deployed configuration in which the tray opens away from the interface assembly to the transporting configuration in which the tray folds towards the interface assembly;
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• a computer including a second display, the computer operatively connected to the tray such that in the deployed configuration the second display faces in a direction different from a direction to which the display of the interface assembly faces and in the transporting configuration the computer retreats to within the shelf enclosure while remaining operatively connected to the tray.