Remote medicine

This is a reposted comment to telemedicine article in India where oncologist are providing medical to remote India.

This is the future of medicine, 10 years from now your doctor may be located thousands of miles from you. I have been discussing remote medicine with a surgeon friend of mine for several year, last year while providing services to the PGA tour he got a opportunity to visit a northern universities virtual surgery center. He was very excited with he told me of the realistic feel of selecting a tool from a screen and cutting into a cadaver. I envision the future of surgery to be similar to a self checkout line in the grocery store. You have 4 patients on operating tables with one surgeon and a anesthesiologist, the surgeons performing surgery are not on location. Today some eye surgery are done remotely with the surgeon in the next room with robotic gloves. The outcomes are proven to be better for this type of precision surgery.

It is fun to dream, see the future make the future.

Jeff Brandt - motionPHR for the iPhone