Title :
A Cooperative Telemedicine Environment for Stomatological Medical Diagnosis
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol., Zhejiang Univ. of Finance & Econ., Hangzhou
Abstract :
The telemedicine is a new medical discipline that combined the traditional medicine and the communication, networks and multimedia technology in the medical industry. This paper presents the system design and development of a cooperative telemedicine environment for stomatological medical diagnosis. The system can support both for hospitals and patients engaged the stomatological diagnosis. The environment is based on a multi-layers distributed architecture, and is comprised by a collaborative toolkit of the videoconference tools, the cooperative stomatological medical imaging diagnosis tools and the electronic patient records for the remote diagnosis and consultation in the distance medical care. The system can be used as cooperative environmental for hospital and dentists for providing the remote stomatological medical service, medical consultation and electronic medical records exchanging in different locations
Keywords :
cooperative systems; groupware; hospitals; medical diagnostic computing; medical information systems; patient care; patient diagnosis; teleconferencing; telemedicine; collaborative toolkit; cooperative telemedicine environment; distance medical care; electronic patient records; hospitals; medical imaging diagnosis tools; multi-layers distributed architecture; remote diagnosis; stomatological medical diagnosis; videoconference tools; Biomedical imaging; Collaborative tools; Communication industry; Dentistry; Hospitals; Medical diagnosis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Multimedia communication; Telemedicine; Videoconference; CSCW; Medical informatics; medical diagnosis system; stomatological medical system; telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Luoyang, Henan
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0465-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0466-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2006.257443
