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The it relates to healthcare delivery to remote and under-served areas. This is evident in the emergence of many Bluetooth or Wi-Fi-enabled medical devices, such as infusion pumps, smart beds, magnetic resonance imaging scanners, and HoloLens devices, inter alia, currently in use in various hospitals and health facilities. However, the shortage of competent operators and lack of specialized physicians and other health workers, especially in rural and remote areas that lack specialist medical services and major hospitals, still poses a great challenge to high-quality health delivery. This research project was to develop a proof-of-concept system by implementing an E-consultation system leveraged on holographic and augmented reality systems, in a typical intensive care unit (ICU) environment, for the prompt and safe delivery of remote consultancy services. The overall system was implemented as a data center controlling a network of devices and a HoloLens consulting system. This E-Consultation approach created an interactive platform between a patient and a doctor and was tested at the surgical ICUs of Buddhachinaraj Hospital, Phitsanulok, Thailand, with six cardiothoracic patients and 14 other accident patients, participating in the study. The adaptability of the system was tested developmentally over a period of one month. Analysis of the results of a satisfaction survey of the collaboration amongst the medical practitioners (doctors and nurses) and the development team showed that the average satisfaction was 4.37 for system usability and 4.5 for the benefits identified and average satisfaction with the development team was 3.87, both out of a maximum score of 5 points. The findings from this research demonstrate the reliability and efficiency of deploying HoloLens and Hologram devices and justify their use in E-Consulting systems in ICU centers.