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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."

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  1. 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.