Fortune February 11, 2020
In 2001, surgeons in New York removed the gallbladder of a patient in France utilizing a remote-controlled robotic system. The Lindbergh operation, as it’s widely known, was the world’s first such tele-surgery.
In the nearly 20 years since the Lindbergh operation, medicine has failed to live up to the promise of using tele-robotics to treat patients in rural areas or parts of the globe that lack access to health care. The proliferation of smartphones and wearables has driven tele-health’s emergence as a tool to diagnose conditions, and in some instances, prescribe medications to patients. But the Lindbergh operation proved modern medicine and technology can intersect to treat patients using remote robotics, not just diagnose a patient or dispense a prescription.
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