Telemedicine System

Abstract

           Many patients with diseases difficult to diagnose and treat come to hospitals for medical help, and the cost of traveling and accommodation is high for them, especially for those from the poor or remote border areas. As networks become more advanced and increase in speed, various energetic activities have begun to emerge. New networks will cause a major revolution in society, and one area, which is expected to be an effective application of new networks, is telemedicine. In general, Telemedicine can be defined as the delivery of health care and sharing of medical knowledge over a distance using telecommunication means. Telemedicine provides medical information exchange at a distance, to support medical procedure, with the ultimate goal for improving community health care. In these experiments, integrated functions such as the transmission of medical images, collaboration and video conferencing, and provided superb human interfaces for telemedicine.

Software

To implement the mobile telemedicine system, a dedicated software will be developed. The software should be able to perform the functions as follows:

1. acquisition of patient related information

2.store of the patient information

3.display of patient information

 System Design And Technical Implementation

Mobile Telemedicine Unit is created to be expandable and flexible according to the user requirements. Hence, the unit is designed in modular form, The mobile telemedicine unit will be provided with both hardware and software. The minimum hardware contains a PC or laptop, a digital camera, power source, and medical devices. Based on the most needed requirement, the medical devices included are:

Introduction

             Telemedicine system is one of the major forces shaping the future of healthcare. People who overreact to telemedicine’s early difficulties or underestimate its scope will be surprised by its real power.  Telemedicine will ultimately revolutionize healthcare – restructuring virtually every relationship and activity that define late twentieth century medicine. While they are very likely correct in their assertions, telemedicine is still a fledgling industry. Today, a lot of the technical activity in the telemedicine industry consists of vendors integrating suites of components to create turnkey solutions for specific clinical settings .This system allows you to regularly monitor a patient’s vital signs and glucose levels without you having to see them in person.

Output

As described earlier that the objectives of the project is to develop an ICT-based mobile telemedicine system with multi communication links. The project would deliver a working user tested ICT-based mobile telemedicine system that support community health services.