Applying Telemedicine to Remote and Rural Underserved Regions in Brazil using eMedical Consulting Tool

Author

Sachpazidis, I.A. ; Ohl, R. ; Polanczyk, C.A. ; Torres, M.S. ; Messina, L.A. ; Sales, A. ; Sakas, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Cognitive Comput. & Med. Imaging, Fraunhofer Inst. for Comput. Graphic, Darmstadt

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2191

Lastpage

2195

Abstract

In this paper, we are going to depict a medical tele-consultation network for medical imaging that has been deployed in Brazil. Preliminary outcomes of the medical network will be presented. In addition, the medical application used for tele-consultations will be shown. Eighty-nine ultrasound acquisitions took place in the period of five months of the operation of the medical network and five hundred and fifty-six medical consultations performed

Keywords

PACS; biomedical ultrasonics; telemedicine; Brazil; eMedical consulting tool; medical imaging; medical teleconsultation network; remote underserved regions; rural underserved regions; telemedicine; ultrasound acquisitions; Biomedical imaging; Communication channels; Cryptography; DICOM; Data communication; Hospitals; Marketing and sales; Public key; Telemedicine; Ultrasonic imaging; Latin America; Telemedicine; Ultrasound images;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616897

Filename

1616897