Telemedicine and experiences in some countries of Asia
- Author:
Khoa Tuan Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
telemedicine
- MeSH:
Telemedicine;
Life Change Events
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
2002;5(3):1-4
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Telemedicine is a term of the remote health care, developed in the developed countries to apply the information technology in delivering the health services to remote areas promptly and effectively. There were 2 major trends of development of telemedicine. The firstly, organization of network and transmission way in which the health and medical database such as texts, sound, image…were processed and searched through the local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), Intranet and Internet. The secondly, development of software for database management such as hospital information system (HIS), system of back up, process and exploitation of database for remote diagnosis and treatment (telediagnose) picture archiving and communication system (PACS), Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM). The telemedicine has been developing in the some countries of Asia such as Japan. The China considered particularly in the telemedicine with trend of using the health services by low technology.
