Space age health clinic coming to Montreal’s West Island [Video]

The health-care system used by the Canadian Space Agency has touched down in Pierrefonds as part of a pilot project in Montreal’s West Island.

A new “Autonomous Care Unit” was unveiled Monday to ease the demands on the local health-care system.

Standing in front of a screen and holding sensors in your hands, the hi-tech unit that takes your vitals and assesses your health.

It’s the same technology astronauts like David Saint-Jacques used in space.

“It’s to increase the level of autonomy to take care of your own health,” he said. “That starts with monitoring, and that starts ideally with some kind of computer system with artificial intelligence that can at least tell you if you’re sick or not sick, and, if you’re sick, we’re going to get a human involved somehow; maybe a nurse and eventually a physician.”

The newly installed point of care station in the Pierrefonds CLSC …