Message-ID: <v02130502ad8ee1d717f5@[196.20.30.2]> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 16:43:12 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Traditional I.T. Before the Internet ?! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Chris,At 4:00 PM 5/4/96, CTIGHE wrote: >The good Dr. Lisse wrote the following during a conversation about
>the use of the internet in mediacl cases:
>
>> Nowhere in the US does Internet based Computer Aided Consulting work.
>> Nowhere!
>>
>Dr. Lisse, I would have to partly disagree with you. The Department
>of Defense (specifically the US Navy). Uses Telemedicine
>applications for ship to shore medical consultations. Before the
>incorporation of Telemedicine, 15 sailors a day would have to be
>airlifted from an aircraft carrier back to a land based facility.
>The telemedicine techniques incorporate video, the internet, and
>sound in order to consult on real time medical issues.
15 per day? This is a full percent of the ship's company, per day? You sure you got your figures straight?
I'd like to talk to people who actually use this. I am aware of realtime TV with sound. They do this around Bullock, TX but I have strong reservations towards the coast/benefit ratio there. And in this case this is clearly not Internet, but the military network, which has a totally different infrastrucure.
>It will only be a matter of time until hospitals (albeit the rich
>ones) start using the same thing.
Actually I don't think it will be an issue for big hospitals. Why would they? So they can bill less?
However, I still maintain that there is no facility yet that does Computer Aided Consulting sucessfully. Which is what we are talking about. The issue arose from a point that was made with regards to bringing Internet to developing country. Hardly comparable to US Navy infrastructure....
el
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