Ashley (2002) believes that recent technological advances such as fiber optics, satellite communication, and compressed video provide the environment for telemedicine to continue to grow rapidly. .
Current Status of Telemedicine.
Currently every state in this country has at least one telemedicine program. Bahshur and colleagues (2000) believe that telemedicine is "a product of the information age, just as the assembly line was a product of the industrial age." The way that we provide and receive health care is being changed by new information technologies and telecommunications (Stuckey, 1998). For example, CT scans, ultrasounds, and nuclear medicine images are already digitized. Radiologists can transmit images to any location that has a computer with a corresponding program and sufficient memory to put the image on the screen (Welsh, 1997). Still images and other digital information can be transmitted from one professional to another for the purposes of consultation or referral through "store and forward" telemedicine (Petersen & LaMarche, 2000). New modes of medical practice with new names have sprung up. These include teleradiology, teleneurosurgery, telepsychiatry, and teledermatology. Primary and secondary care providers can now generate electronic referrals, conduct e-mail consultations, and participate in video conferencing (Wallace, 2001). .
Procedures and treatments that have traditionally required direct physical contact by a practitioner can now be performed via telemedicine. For example, blood glucose can be monitored, and visual observation of insulin syringes prior to injection can be conducted from a remote location (Klonoff, 2003). The Kaiser Permanente organization demonstrated that patients with newly diagnosed chronic conditions could be equipped with home videophones, electronic stethoscopes, and digital blood pressure monitors, and assessments could be performed and data transmitted to evaluate cardiac and respiratory function (Wooten, 2001).
For example, in 1994, the MPT launched a $50 million three-year pilot project to assess the feasibility of integrating telecommunications and broadcast services, such as video on demand, high definition television, videoconferencing, teleshopping and telemedicine through fiber-to-the-home networks. ... Telemedicine was to replace referral of patients to specialists. ...
LifeBot 5 is a relatively new telemedicine development on a low end usage. It started being used and tested for the first time in 2008. It was developed by the company LifeBot LLC, and uses an operating and database system called LifeBot Dreams which was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense thro...
Telemedicine employs communications network to transport and display medical images and data. ... For example, telemedicine applications enable hospital specialists to conduct diagnostic procedures, such as X-rays and heart palpation, on remote patients by using special devices at the local doctor's office to collect and transfer patient information. ...
The DSA, in providing for the licensing and regulation of Certification Authorities, attempts to cater for the rising need for transacting parties over the Internet to ascertain each other's identities and the integrity of the messages. A further effect of this Act is to make a digital signature as ...
The Tragedy of Rape: Putting Faces to Numbers In the article, "The Possibilities and Limits of Telemedicine: Self-Treatment at the South Pole," Sara Taub and Kayhan Parsi begin by stating, "it has been said that the death of one person is a tragedy whereas the death of a million is a statistic." ...
Now internet is used for distance learning, telemedicine, online shopping, marketing, entertainment and many other fields. ... Computers are used in Education, Entertainment, Marketing, Telemedicine, Communication, Robotics, Online shopping and many other fields. ...
Among them: better crisis management through videoconferencing that would put workers at the scene in instant contact with experts, telemedicine that can save patients from a distance, and more sophisticated education for rural schools that lack the Internet capacity for multimedia and instantaneous two way interactions."13 I agree with the quote in the previous paragraph, because it is true. ...
HMOs: The Health Care of the Beast Many people are concerned about rising health care costs. In reaction to this, some individuals and companies are gravitating toward the assumed lower prices of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) health plans. HMOs spend billions of dollars each year advert...
