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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.
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.
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