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Andrew A. Skolnick

JAMA. 1998;279:816-817.

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TELEMEDICINE is expected to reach new heights this spring when the 1998 American Mt Everest Expedition team attempts to reach the summit of the highest mountain on earth.

When the team of experienced climbers begin their ascent from the mountain's base camp in May, they will be wearing some of the latest telemedicine equipment for monitoring their health status and helping researchers learn more about how the human body adapts to extreme environmental conditions.

The Mt Everest telemedicine program is a project of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Commercial Space Center for Medical Informatics and Technology Applications at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. This center is the latest of the commercial space centers to be established by NASA to help it develop and test technology needed for future space missions (see sidebar).

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