Optimized video conferencing system for hospitals

Hi all
A friend of mine shared an idea which I thought was worth sharing here in case it could be of interest to a hackathon team:

Who is impacted: St-Mary Hospital (Montreal) and many others

The problem: suspected patients and medical staff cannot be in contact with one another. diagnostic and discussions need to be done from 2 different rooms. the patient cannot touch anything.

The idea: optimized video conferencing system that is always ON, perhaps on iPads, and with perhaps a nurse in a different room that can control video/audio coming from different iPads

Although we cannot assist with live & physical setup in the context of this hackathon, I was wondering if anything could be done to help with this issue.

Food for thoughts, as you can see, the idea is far from being fully fleshed out.