The ARPA program transports the “teledoc” to the scene of the battle. According to this concept, instead of throwing the wounded soldier on a Humvee and racing for the field hospital, medics would pull the soldier into a miniature trauma center crammed into a lightly armored vehicle. Guided by “telementor” doctors at the hospital, medics would do everything possible to stabilize their charges on the spot – including telepresence surgery – before taking that long, risky journey back from the front lines.
Predictor: Flower, Joe
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Joe Flower explains the types of changes that could come in health care through the use of networked computing. Flower writes:”SRI International of Menlo Park, California, is already spinning off a company to market a ‘telepresence’ system that will allow online surgery. ARPA is aggressively pursuing online surgery for military and civilian uses … Currently, there are ‘telementoring’ helmets that could be worn by battle medics – or by civilian paramedics. An EMT puts the helmet on, with its imbedded video cameras and microphones, and the doctor back at the hospital can see and hear what the EMT sees and hears, coach the EMT, and help the EMT to do far more complex things in those first critical moments, to try and stabilize the patient, than is possible today. The ARPA program transports the ‘teledoc’ to the scene of the battle. According to this concept, instead of throwing the wounded soldier on a Humvee and racing for the field hospital, medics would pull the soldier into a miniature trauma center crammed into a lightly armored vehicle. Guided by ‘telementor’ doctors at the hospital, medics would do everything possible to stabilize their charges on the spot – including telepresence surgery – before taking that long, risky journey back from the front lines.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Other Revolution in Health Care: Leave Hillary and Bill Out of It … The Health Care System is Going to Change Drastically Over the Next Decade
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/healthcare_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney