IBM’s Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME) has made an appearance at CeBIT 2008 in Hannover.
A mouse click on the spine for example brings up the patient’s med records related to that item. IBM describes ASME as improving medical info retrieval, and as a kind of “Google Earth for the body”.
IBM Research unveils 3-D avatar to help doctors visualize patient records – IBM news release, 26 September 2007
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Do you know of this article reminds me of one other related engineered so I just read some place else?
Can the avatar turn its head and cough? Seriously, though, I wonder if someday these avatars will lead to more virtual doctor’s appointments and less invasive examinations.