Telemedicine
International Space Station uses telemedicine technology
Published in Health and Medicine Week, January 24th, 2005
According to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), officer Leroy Chiao and flight engineer Salizhan Sharipov conducted another in a series of tests of the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Micro-G experiment.
On the first day, they took turns performing bone and dental scans on each other. One day later, after six hours of fasting, Sharipov was the subject for abdominal scans. Chiao also performed an abdominal scan on Sharipov to recover from a previous session during which data was lost.
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