Extending healthcare´s reach

Author

Moore, S.K.

Volume

39

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

1/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

71

Abstract

Telemedicine, or treating patients from afar, promises to alter the medical landscape. Technological solutions are being implemented that can spread critical medical expertise across a region and around the globe. For example, a U.S. company believes that the shortage of physicians specializing in intensive care can be mitigated by its telemedicine system. The performance of transatlantic surgery by remote control proved that, with the right equipment, surgeons can perform and teach advanced procedures from thousands of kilometers away. Finally, in the nations and territories of the Pacific Rim, healthcare information networks are granting the regions widely scattered citizens new access to medical expertise

Keywords

decision support systems; health care; medical information systems; surgery; telemedicine; centralized care management; decision support system; healthcare information networks; intensive care; military medicine; professional guardrails; remote control; surgical globe-trotter; telemedicine; transatlantic surgery; Air traffic control; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Data analysis; Hospitals; Medical control systems; Medical services; Scattering; Surgery; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6.975025

Filename

975025