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If last-mile network is too much, you could have a colocated office park / operations center next to a hospital with a dedicated high-speed network. Then each s
by yingw787 7y ago
If last-mile network is too much, you could have a colocated office park / operations center next to a hospital with a dedicated high-speed network. Then each surgeon can schedule / manage a patient without having to walk to a different OR, change scrubs, or be exposed to contagious viruses.
Mecheng tasks could be async / queue-based and latency wouldn't matter too much.
Regardless, I think it's really important to keep your bias for action high during this period of time.
- pythonaut_16 7y agoHow common are robotic surgeries today? Are there benefits to having a machine do the cutting?
- Retric 7y agoIt’s common enough not to be a gimmick, but the real advantage is allowing surgery to be done by a limited pool of specialists that can cover wide areas.
- pythonaut_16 6y agoSo potentially the next step is specialists covering whole regions where the latency of fiber is still acceptable. Then as the equipment and training for telesurgery becomes more available/costs come down, you might see it used for smaller benefits of sterilization and travel/cleaning time within a hospital, even for more common/less specialized surgeries, and even if it's just a surgeon located at the same building or facility.