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Tele-Link For Tele-Surgery

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and faster means to collaborate in sharing information and treating patients have become a

consistent endeavour by the medical fraternity and technological community. If surgeons

from all over the world are assembling in Lisbon to give a public demonstration of remote

controlled telesurgery, India too is sparing no efforts to make advancements in the field

of telemedicine.

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Recently, the children’s hospital in Chennai—Sri Ramachandra

Medical College in Porur—was linked with the Children’s Heart Project

International at the Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital in Ontorio, Canada. This

communication link is the result of the desperate need of two doctors—Dr KR

Balakrishnan in Chennai and Dr Peter Einstein in Canada—who perform open heart

surgery on infants and young children, to share their expertise on different treatment

options and problems on a real-time basis. The linking has been possible using

standards-based computers, wireless connections, and ISDN telephone lines. To make the

entire project successful, Intel collaborated with Data-TeleMark, VSNL, and Bell Canada to

establish the Internet/video link from Chennai to Toronto via satellite over ISDN lines.

Intel donated two systems (one each) to the two hospitals. The radio wireless

communication in the last mile connection (between Porur and Chennai) was done by Cylink

Communications.

All these things once again reaffirm that technology is a great

leveller. Knows no boundaries and discriminates none. 

Interesting E-mail Statistics

E-mail has

become indispensable to tens of millions of people.

  • Ninety-seven percent Internet users correspond by E-mail

    (Yahoo!).

  • Eighty-four percent Internet users say they cannot live

    without their E-mail (GVU8).

  • Fifty-seven percent of American business executives rely on

    E-mail (American Management Association).

  • Fifty-nine percent adults with access to Internet send or

    receive E-mail every day.

  • Another 30 percent use it at least weekly.

E-mail usage continues to skyrocket

  • By the year 2000, the Electronic Messaging Association

    projects that 108 million people will use E-mail which is roughly double of today’s

    figure.

  • Those 108 million people will receive more than seven trillion

    messages a year, many generated by machines rather than people. (Your share calculates to

    be about 65,000 a year.)

  • Eighty-two percent Internet users access E-mail from the

    workplace, while 91 percent have household accounts (ZD Market Intelligence).

  • Fifty-six percent Internet users report having more than one

    E-mail account (GVU8).

E-mail drives widespread Internet adoption

  • Eighty-four percent Internet users say it was E-mail that

    lured them to the Internet (MarketFact).

  • E-mail is the second most popular Internet application, second

    only to Internet research applications (ZD Market Intelligence).
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