Bell helps bring telesurgery closer to reality

TORONTO – Bell Canada has offered up its national communication link to help trial telesurgery between Toronto and Vancouver. Telesurgery is the performance of robotic surgery over a distance, and requires a combination of advanced elements of robotics, communication technologies and management information systems. The procedure offers the promise for patients to have access to surgeons from around the world, without the need to travel beyond their local hospital for surgery. Working with Titan Medical Inc., Bell said that the tests were conducted during a one-week period over “an unprecedented long distance” spanning roundtrip from Toronto to Vancouver, approximately 7,000 km....