I almost fell off my chair, but I shouldn't be surprised.
According to Mashable's Sam Laird, Houston's Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital has taken the leap to be the first in medical and social history to live tweet double-coronary artery bypass open-heart surgery on a 57 year-old patient. Surgeons answered follower questions and wore video cameras and snapped photographs to capture the action during the two hour operation.
The hospital published the tweets, video and photographs via Storify on Feburary 21, 2012. You can view it out here, (warning images are graphic and not for the faint hearted, excuse the pun:))
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view First Live Tweet of an Open-Heart Surgery
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Source: Memorial Hermann @houstonhospital
http://twitter.com/#!/labeeisawesome/status/171974644822327297 |
This is a sign of the times to come. With the advances in technology, best practises in the ares of medicine, surgery,psychiatry and frankly any field, can be shared and collaborated on in a real time manner. At Oracle, we are working with a company that is using technology to take advanced medicine and surgery techniques to the third world and developing countries in remote areas, where the traditional on-premise medical expertise is not available. This has huge social benefits, by making cutting edge medical advancements available to hitherto remote locations in underdeveloped countries. This area of telemedicine and medical informatics has great potential with enormous humanitarian benefits. Using Information Technology to bridge the social divide can become more of a reality in the not too distant future.
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