• DocumentCode
    3324083
  • Title

    Lasers and electro-optics in the health care of the future

  • Author

    Parrish, John A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Dermatology, Harvard Med. Sch., Boston, MA, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    18-21 Nov. 1996
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. Medical practice is being rapidly redefined by market forces on one side and new technologies on the other. The shift from inpatient to outpatient surgery is a good example of this. Advances in procedural medicine will be built upon the core technologies of high speed computing, robotics, systems engineering, lasers, optics, imaging and biomedical engineering. These technologies cut across traditional disciplines and have the possibilities of making medical care better, safer and less expensive.
  • Keywords
    biomedical imaging; laser applications in medicine; medical computing; surgery; biomedical engineering; electro-optics; health care; high speed computing; inpatient surgery; market forces; medical care; medical practice; outpatient surgery; procedural medicine; robotics; systems engineering; Ambulatory surgery; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Lasers and electrooptics; Medical robotics; Medical services; Optical computing; Systems engineering and theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1996. LEOS 96., IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3160-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.1996.565093
  • Filename
    565093