Telesurgery and Telemonitoring Platform from Teaching Hospitals to Virtual Classrooms

General Objective: Development of a Surgical Telesurgery and Telemonitoring System.

Specific objectives:

  • Analyze the information from similar platforms for Telesurgery and collect information from existing resources in the Hospitals and Universities participating in the project.
  • Install and configure a server to manage the transmission of multimedia packages using the media streaming modality for transmissions in real time.
  • Put into operation a tool that allows the recipients of the transmission to be able to access the contents and transmissions assigned to them.
  • Integrate the technological elements to generate the Surgical Telesurgery and Telemonitoring Platform.
  • Define Policies for the use of the system from the medical, student, educational, university, hospital, and patient point of view.
  • Link the authorities of the faculties of Medical Sciences seeking to integrate the use of the Telesurgery and Surgical Telemonitoring platform into the curricula.
  • Transfer of project results and protection of intellectual property.

Participants:

  • UCUENCA: Mst. Rosario Acig
  • UTPL: Eng. Carlos Calderón
  • UNIANDES: Dr. José Garzón

Awarded budget: $30100

Project status: In process of closing