Unique Solutions for an Exciting
Ever-Changing World

Welcome to the VOR - a medical education company that embraces an agenda of providing the appropriate healthcare information and innovations to Healthcare professionals and consumers in the ever-changing healthcare world.

 

We are healthcare’s future.
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VOR History


VIRTUAL-OR: Industry Pioneer

On August 17th 1998 the world's first Internet broadcast of real-time interactive open heart surgery was performed at Seattle Providence Medical Center and the Virtual-OR was born. The broadcast was completed without the need for satellite down-linkage, hardware materials or any other high technology applications.


Requirements to view the surgery as a seamless video stream included a PC, web browser, Windows Media Player Plug-in (available free) and a high speed Internet access line. Live interactive surgical broadcasts have been performed multiple times since the initial broadcast. Viewers have included patients, health care providers, physicians, medical device industries, medical institutions, and governmental representatives.