Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Mending Hearts Via Satellite

Posted by timothy on from the hi-it's-the-future-you're-late dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Read how a cardiac surgeon and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are engaged in a 15-month-old experiment in telemedicine, using computer software and satellite hook-ups to make available their specialist services to general practitioners treating heart patients in other parts of India."

7 comments

  1. Excellent!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    maybe this one way to get the doc to do house calls again!

  2. Scared by Cokelee · · Score: 2, Funny

    This idea frightens me. I'd like for the doctor to be there to chastise me for years of bad eating habits --wouldn't you?

  3. ./ it!!! by moosesocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Somehow, tying the slashdot effect into medicine over the internet seems like a bad idea....

    --
    -- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
  4. my only worry by Phosphor3k · · Score: 2

    Would be the lag. Seriously, that'd really suck if you over-cut because of lag.

  5. Impressive, however by isorox · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was more impressed with Telemedicine Link With South Pole Allows Remote Knee Surgery.

  6. Latency is a bitch by n9hmg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think of surgery as a fairly high-dexterity sort of thing. Unless this is some sort of mesh networking with LEOs, we're talking about >1sec latency at best. I have enough trouble just using vi over a 750ms latency link. It's not like you can just "q!" and start over.