Telesurgery Successful in Iraq. I.H.D.M.I. Intuitive Surgical - Products Overview Video. Chapter661. IST - Your tele-medicine (telemedicine) and tele-surgery (telesurgery) experts including medical robots and robotics in general. Stjoe. Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS) - Applied Research. In February 2003 Dr. Anvari performed the world’s first hospital-to-hospital telerobotic surgery over a telecommunications network. This surgery and the following 21 cases were part of a research program funded in part by the Canadian Health Information Partnership Program (Canadian Federal Agency) to prove the feasibility of mission critical telehealth applications over commercially available telecommunication networks.
The NEEMO 7 (October 2004) research project successfully evaluated the use of telementoring and telerobotic surgery in the provision of emergency diagnostic and surgical care by a non-physician surgeon in a space analogue environment. The partners in this program were the Canadian Space Agency, NASA and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Centre (TATRC). In April of 2006 CMAS, under the direction of Dr. Mehran Anvari, successfully performed NEEMO 9 which was an 18 day mission that built on the lessons learnt from NEEMO 7. Surgical Robotic Platforms Dr. Haivision.