Download or read book Cybercare: Combining Healthcare and Cyberspace in the 21st Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we discuss the origins of the modern hospital-based tertiary, care system We define how this system was a product of a large-scale medical disaster that prompted the invention of the modern hospital, We will then similarly describe the disaster that prompted the beginning of telemedicine, Following, we review the his ton, of telemedicine and the development of telesurgery, and present the state-of-the-art in telesurgery, and other advanced telemedicine technologies, We will then define cyber through a discussion of cybernetics and cyberspace We present the concept of the digital physician and a cybercare vision of a new healthcare system We will then predict what type of large-scale medical disaster would prompt the creation of a cybercare healthcare system Finally, we discuss the challenges to be faced in the 21st century.