Difference between revisions of "Talk:Open Source Medicine"
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Telesurgery definitely deserves a mention here. Imagine you could be operated on by a specialist surgeon anywhere in the world. You just go into an operating theater with robots and a high-resolution camera and the surgeon operates the robots remotely. This is fully mature technology. Open collaboration makes this possible, as you have access to all the world's surgeons. | Telesurgery definitely deserves a mention here. Imagine you could be operated on by a specialist surgeon anywhere in the world. You just go into an operating theater with robots and a high-resolution camera and the surgeon operates the robots remotely. This is fully mature technology. Open collaboration makes this possible, as you have access to all the world's surgeons. | ||
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Revision as of 20:35, 8 May 2010
Telesurgery definitely deserves a mention here. Imagine you could be operated on by a specialist surgeon anywhere in the world. You just go into an operating theater with robots and a high-resolution camera and the surgeon operates the robots remotely. This is fully mature technology. Open collaboration makes this possible, as you have access to all the world's surgeons.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1681689/
Telesurgery, but also fully robotic surgery won't be far behind.
Tried to upload 800px version of this image, but was getting timeouts... http://spectrum.ieee.org/images/public_html/automaton/DaVinci-Robot.jpg
