Dr. Neil Martin, Medical Director, Neurosurgery ICU, UCLA Medical Center

Etopia Media Medical News Network spoke yesterday with Yulun Wang, CEO at InTouch Health in Santa Barbara, California, about that company's new RP-6 "remote presence"-enabling medical robot.

You can watch and listen to Yulun Wang talking about the RP-6 robot by clicking here.

Etopia Media Medical News Network spoke today with Dr. Neil Martin, Professor and Chief, Division of Neurosurgery at UCLA Medical School, and Medical Director of the Neurosurgery ICU at UCLA Medical Center, about a trial now underway there to explore the effectiveness of the RP-6 robots in the delivery of "intensivist" medical services to intensive care unit patients.

The RP-6 medical robots from InTouch Health use advanced and mobile video teleconferencing equipment and software to connect patients and doctors at a distance. Etopia Media Medical News Network used its own system of advanced teleconferencing and recording equipment and software to conduct a remote video interview with Dr. Martin between the Etopia Media studio and Dr. Martin's office at the UCLA Medical Center.

You can watch and listen to that conversation in its entirety by clicking here.

To watch and listen to Dr. Martin talk about transferring the functions of telemedicine to wirelessly-connected laptops and "smart phones," in combination with EV-DO networks, click here. (1 minute, 3 seconds)

To watch and listen to Dr. Martin talk about creating a "flat medical world" that will let medical specialists collaborate globally in real time, and about how he'd like to have a "worldwide medical practice," click here. (46 seconds)

To watch and listen to Dr. Martin talk about the human limits to telemedical innovation, click here. (1 minute, 2 seconds)