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From: Henry Lahore 
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 10:42 AM
Subject: To Vijay Vashee : Great emergency medical care will be available in urban areas around the globe

Our nonprofit organization, Skyaid, will be saving at least 100,000 lives per year around the globe by 2010.
Our focus is to save lives and reduce disability of urban adults from heart attack, sudden cardiac arrest, and stroke.

We expect that India will be among the early countries to use the Skyaid service.

The Skyaid service will be using high technology to save lives
- Skyaid Watch - a wristwatch which radios a request for help automatically
          (Skyaid Watch is described at: http://www.skyaid.org/LifeWatch/life_watch.htm )
in case of a sudden cardiac arrest or if the panic button is pressed on the wristwatch

- Skycar which arrives within 5 minutes of a request for help (which came via Skyaid Watch or telephone)
The Skycar will fly 360 miles per hour and land vertically in a driveway, parking place, etc.
A single Skycar will be able to provide emergency medical care to a circle with a 24 mile radius

The Skycar will also rush victims to hospitals.
Getting a stroke or heart attack victim to an appropriate critical care center within 2 hours actually
reverses the damage, and thus greatly reduces death and disability.

A cartoon sequence of the Skyaid Watch and Skycar is at http://www.skyaid.org/images/livewatch_in_action.gif

The Skyaid Watch will be available in 2002.

The Skycar requires extensive software development before being widely deployed in 2005.

I feel that approximately 1,000 man-years of software development will be needed to achieve ultrasafe Skycar operation.
This software will probably be developed in India.
It would be appropriate if India helps develop the Skycar and is among the first countries
to benefit from vastly improved emergency medical care.

(We estimate a 65X improvement in survival rate sudden cardiac attack http://www.skyaid.org/images/survive_SCA2.gif

I have been working in Seattle at the Boeing company the past 20 years as a systems engineer.
My work has included safe software for the 777 aircraft and I have been recently been developing
a Knowledge Management Roadmap for Boeing.
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