Teleconsultations - synergy of medicine and IT technology

• Autorzy: Cała J. , Czekierda Ł.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The combination of medical sciences with computer networks and computer telematics creates a wide spectrum of new applications called telemedicine. One of telemedical domains is making digitally represented medical data available to medical technicians and professionals from remote locations. It can improve health care and lower its costs. The application discussed it this article is remote access to patients' medical documentation, and DICOM (http://medical.nema.org/) images in particular, for consultation purposes. The paper presents the research done so far by Distributed Systems Research Group (DSRG) in the area of telemedicine. It shows the functional evolution of applications designed and developed by the group. Starting from relatively simple Web-based services through dedicated access and consultation applications, DSRG has created a comprehensive and sophisticated environment called TeleDICOM, allowing participants from the distributed consultation team to diagnose patients in collaboration. Teleconsultation services, demanding as they are, should be designed with deep knowledge and experience in the area of medical data, distributed systems, computer networks and many others. All these issues have been considered in constructing the applications and discussed in the article.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

telemedicine; teleconsultations; DICOM; medical system's architecture

• Wydawca: Politechnika Gdańska
• Czasopismo: TASK Quarterly : scientific bulletin of Academic Computer Centre in Gdansk
• Rocznik: 2004
• Tom: Vol. 8, No 4
• Strony: 471--486
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 8 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Cała J.

• Distributed Systems Research Group (DSRG), Department of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30059 Cracow, Poland

autor

Czekierda Ł.

• Distributed Systems Research Group (DSRG), Department of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30059 Cracow, Poland

Bibliografia

• [1] DICOM – Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, http://medical.nema.org/
• [2] McGeady S 1999 Healthcare Informatics: Internet Technologies in Healthcare, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., pp. 3–6, http://www.axolotl.com/press/hcinformatics.pdf
• [3] Cała J, Czekierda Ł, Zieliński K and Zieliński S 2004 Computational Science, ICCS 2004, 4th Int. Conf., Cracow, Poland, LNCS 3039 1172
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• [5] Kosińska J and Słowikowski P 2004 Proc. 2 nd Int. Conf. on e-Health in Common Europe, Cracow, Poland (in print)
• [6] Cała J, Czekierda Ł and Zieliński K 2004 Proc. 2 nd Int. Conf. on e-Health in Common Europe, Cracow, Poland (in print)
• [7] Cała J 2002 Proc. 6 th Conf. Internet and Medical Telematics, Cracow, Poland
• [8] Cała J and Czekierda Ł 2003 Proc. 1 st Int. Conf. on e-Health in Common Europe, Cracow, Poland, pp. 307–322