The use of telemed technology in the Bond films was down to a Scottish doctor and his team:
Mr Ferguson said: “We thought: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if James Bond fell ill and took telemedicine advice from us here in Aberdeen?’ So we sat down and wrote an outline of a story where Bond gets poisoned and, using remote monitoring and video conferencing technology, his life is saved. We sent the outline off to the Bond producers and the next thing it was sent to the writers and they used it.”
The enterprising team have since been hired by the film company to to provide remote medicine services to the cast and crew of the movie series. Nice one.