The design and realization of telemedicine systems in remote rural areas need to address technologies such as telemedicine technology, telemedicine clinical pathway technology, remote monitoring technology and diagnostic methods.
--Telemedicine System
Telemedicine, refers to a medical model that utilizes communication and information technology to achieve multiple medical functions such as off-site disease diagnosis, treatment and health care.
Telemedicine uses computers, communications, and medical technology and equipment to realize "face-to-face" consultations between experts and patients, and between experts and medical personnel, through the long-distance transmission of data, text, voice, and image information. Telemedicine is not only a medical or clinical issue, but also includes communication networks, databases and other aspects of the problem, and the need to integrate them into the network system.
Telemedicine has been referred to internationally as telemedicine, telehealth, and telecare. The traditional definition of telemedicine is a special form of medical treatment that involves the administration of simple medical procedures to distant patients who are unable to come to the clinic. Modern telemedicine refers to a medical service system that is realized with the help of modern communication technology for remote objects, and the use of telemedicine system can detect, monitor, and diagnose the remote objects.
The telemedicine system consists of the following three main components: the provider of medical services. That is, the location of the source of medical services, generally located in the medical center of a large city, with a wealth of medical resources and experience in diagnosis and treatment. The demand side of seeking medical services from afar. It can be a local medical institution that does not have sufficient medical capacity or conditions, or it can be a family patient.
Communication networks and diagnostic and therapeutic devices that link the two. Among them, the communication network can include ordinary telephone network, wireless communication network and communication satellite network, etc.; Medical devices include computer hardware and software, diagnosis and treatment instruments, etc..
Telemedicine system service mode is divided into real-time (online) mode and non-real-time (offline) mode two. The real-time mode is used when conditions permit or in emergencies, which can enable patients to obtain timely assistance, but at a higher cost and more difficult to operate; the non-real-time mode refers to the demand side of the medical services at any time to transmit information to the service provider, waiting to be processed.
Specialists located in large hospitals can make appropriate diagnoses based on the information provided by users. It is also often used in medical consultation, training, education and other applications. This approach can greatly reduce the bandwidth requirements of the network system.