Title :
Auxiliary Telemedicine System
Author :
Liu, Chung-Hsin ; Chen, Jiun-Ting ; Wu, Chung-Min ; Chen, Chuen-Lung
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Chinese Culture Univ., Taipei
Abstract :
Telemedicine system has become as a major research topic due to the increase of aging population and chronic diseases. Patients usually transfer their test results to the hospitals or doctors through telemedicine system. The purpose of this report is to combine the current medical equipments and services with and the most recent network technology. Through telemedicine system, patients will have more comprehensive medical care and can access test results from their home. Doctors can conduct remote prescriptions to the patients after conducting remote on line monitoring and checking on their patients.
Keywords :
Internet; biomedical equipment; diseases; patient care; patient monitoring; telemedicine; Internet service provider; aging population study; auxiliary telemedicine system; chronic disease study; medical equipment; network technology application; patient comprehensive medical care; remote on line monitoring; remote prescription method; Aging; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical monitoring; Diseases; Hospitals; Medical tests; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; System testing; Telemedicine; network service; telemedicine system;
Conference_Titel :
MultiMedia and Information Technology, 2008. MMIT '08. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Three Gorges
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3556-2
DOI :
10.1109/MMIT.2008.74
