Cybercare - responding to homeland defense with robots

Joseph Rosen
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Time and Place

1305 Newell-Simon Hall
Refreshments 3:15 pm
Talk 3:30 pm

Abstract

In this talk, we discuss the origins of the modern hospital-based tertiary care system. We define how this system was a product of a large-scale medical disaster that prompted the invention of the modern hospital. We will then similarly describe the disaster that prompted the beginning of telemedicine. Following, we review the history of telemedicine and the development of telesurgery and present the state-of-the-art in telesurgery and other advanced telemedicine technologies. We will then define cyber through a discussion of cybernetics and cyberspace. We present the concept of the digital physician and a cybercare vision of a new healthcare system. We will then predict what type of large-scale medical disaster would prompt the creation of a cybercare healthcare system. Finally, we discuss the challenges to be faced in the 21st century.

Speaker Biography

Joe Rosen graduated from Cornell University in 1974, and received his MD degree from in 1978. He completed a residency in Plastic Surgery at Stanfordand joined the faculty of Stanford Medical School in 1985. From 1991 to the present, he has been a member of the faculty at Dartmouth. He has broad interests in medicine and technology including virtual reality, nerve repair, robotics, and computer aided surgery. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Virtual Reality, the National Science Board Committee on Technology Threats, and most recently the Department of Justice Conference on Terrorism. He has multiple patents to his credit, and has started two companies, on in computer assisted surgery in 1992, and one in telemedicine in 1996.

Speaker Appointments

For appointments, please contact Jianbo Shi (jshi@cs.cmu.edu).