A clever workaround for Boston traffic led to modern telemedicine. The first audiovisual telediagnostic clinic between …
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A clever workaround for Boston traffic led to modern telemedicine. The first audiovisual telediagnostic clinic between Logan International Airport and Massachusetts General Hospital opened in April 1968. Kenneth Bird, a Harvard Medical School alum and Mass General physician, was the medical director of the airport at the time. With the roughly 3-mile commute taking an hour each way, he proposed the idea to set up a microwave dish at each location so he could examine patients through the…
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