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Project
Director: Robert C. Merrell, M.D.
MITAC
is a NASA Commercial Space Center located within the Department
of Surgery. MITAC's mission is to manage medicine at a distance
by applying and integrating sensors, telecommunications systems,
effectors and process simulations. MITAC explores, adapts
and validates technology through testbeds such as those in
Ecuador. MITAC develops partnerships with industry, academia,
foundations and other government agencies to investigate applications
of information technology in health care, including robotics
in surgery. MITAC has been an early adopter of Internet as
a means of communications to support telemedicine.
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Dr.
Robert C. Merrell, MD |
