A new telemedicine framework handling the emergency room overload

Nowadays, the rate of people incoming to the emergency room pointing a health problem is steadily increased. This paper introduces a new telemedicine framework that addresses this problem. It allows medical experts to estimate the real health condition of conditional (c-) patients, and then consult them to visit a hospital or not. This framework combines elements such as an expanded electronic medical record enriched with real time acquired context data as well as several actor´s profiles. The framework´s concept has taken into consideration the medical practice followed by the experts while addressing patients suffering from certain disorders.