Biofeedback can now be conducted using telemedicine (Earles, Folen & James, 2001). Inmates now receive health care services through telemedicine (Strode, Gutske & Allen, 1999). Tele-home-health, population based telemedicine, interactive video conferencing and store and forward image and record transmission have made it possible to deliver health care services across distances (Petersen, & LaMarche, 2000 & Strode et al., 1999). .
For the most part, consultations via the Internet or video conferencing are the major ways that health care services are currently provided via telemedicine (Ashley, 2002). Coile (2000) notes that more than 18 million Americans go on line each year seeking health information and advice. The Internet may represent the next great frontier for health care (Coile, 2000). Maddox (2002) observed there has been a marked proliferation of internet sites that provide information about diseases, diagnosis and treatment, disease prevention, health promotion, and individual health risk assessment and profiling services. These services are being coined "online health or e-health (Wooten, 2001)." In addition, patients are seeking online medical care services ranging from one-time interactions for a second opinion to access to prescription drugs or psychotherapy (Miller & Derse, 2002). .
With the increased use of online and distance health care education has come the development of sophisticated virtual simulation technology (Wooten, 2001). Internet based technology allowing virtual simulation of tissues and blood flow is now available over the Internet (Pushkin, 2001). Work has just recently been completed on two revolutionary virtual simulation technologies. The Human Genome Project (HGP) and the Visible Human Project (VHP) are visual and digitized archives of genetic and anatomic data that can be studied and manipulated via the Internet (Sandelowski, 2002). .
Global Trends with Telemedicine.
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...
