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Article: TAIPEI HOSPITAL/NORTEL DEMONSTRATE WIRELESS TELEMEDICINE.(Northern Telecom Ltd., Taipei City Hospital)
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- Worldwide Telecom
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- August 1, 2005
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Taipei City Hospital and Nortel (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT) have demonstrated a far-reaching wireless telemedicine application with the potential to enable a new immediacy in life-saving medical resources for remote Taiwan communities and outlying islands.
In this initiative's first trial application, a surgeon from the Renai Branch of Taipei City Hospital was able to make a real-time wireless Internet connection from a Taipei city subway station to the county hospital on the island of Lienkiang in the Taiwan Strait.
The surgeon used a wireless laptop computer to remotely connect to the Nortel Multimedia Communication Server 5200 (MCS 5200) at the hospital to ...