Virtual doctor's office telemedicine delivery system
Abstract
Rapid advances in high performance global communication have accelerated telemedicine-based medical services to a new frontier. Traditional medical services can now fully utilize multimedia technologies to provide novel services, such as tele-consultation and remote cooperative medical triage, virtual simulation of health care delivery and fast and easy retrieval of relevant information, which is perhaps the most critical requirement for the provision of remote medical services. This project aims to research and develop components and systems of health service delivery using advanced telecommunications between remote communities, applicable to one of two scenarios - with the presence of a healthcare provider and without (homecare). The components of health service delivery involve consultations between physicians located at a distant location, which could be within tertiary medical care facilities, and attending physicians located in remote communities. The project involves research and development of telemedicine delivery services that are two-way telecommunications using a File Transfer Protocol over an Ethernet connection. The system is used to demonstrate effective telemedicine delivery to enable tele-consultation. Virtual instruments are developed for both ends of the system to acquire the relevant medical information, suitably format the data for transmission, and reproduce the recovered information, as necessary.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-45).
Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Keywords
biomedical engineering., Major biomedical engineering.