29/08/2022
In 1998 when the Internet was still a relatively new thing, founders of GHSI were in charge of a leading-edge telehealth project to support an expedition up Mt. Everest. Yale University and MIT had collaborated to create early prototype sensors and transmitters for the climbers. Each of the expedition team members swallowed a sensor that tracked core temperature, heart rate and other metrics. It transmitted this and other external sensor data to receivers built into the climbers’ web gear where it was then transmitted to the base camp at 17,500 ft where GHSI’s CEO Jim Tuchi was positioned to lead our support. Ray Dudley, GHSI’s VP of Technology and Health Software, supported the climb from the US working with technology partners to get the sensor data from the basecamp to the US via Satellite B phone services where it was then sent to Denver to be distributed to research staff at Yale and MIT as well as to other designated recipients. This included letting students track climber progress as they made their ascent.
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/1998-everest-expedition/overview/
https://www.dmu.edu/blog/2010/08/grasso-takes-high-tech-to-extreme-heights/
https://youtu.be/nGsA1yU2jEc