Title :
An adaptive multi-disciplinary telemedicine system
Author :
Chimiak, William J. ; Rainer, Robert ; Cook, Jay
Author_Institution :
Bowman Gray Sch. of Med., Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Abstract :
Telemedicine is often assumed to apply to all medical services delivered over a telecommunications channel. However, in this paper, a dynamically adaptive multi-disciplinary workstation (DAMDW) is discussed which is usable by a significant number of specialists and primary care physicians which not only adapts to the specialty of the physician, but also to the bandwidth available to the participating health care centers. The telemedicine system architecture described easily incorporates advances in computer and communication technology that minimizes early obsolescence. In addition, the system maximizes remote logistical support, providing significant operational cost reduction. The DAMDW is a based on the Unix operating system with software components which can be used on various computer architectures that provide cost alternatives during the system acquisition process. The DAMDW incorporates informatics interfaces as well as commercial videoconferencing software and videoconferencing software obtained using anonymous FTP on the Internet
Keywords :
Unix; adaptive systems; health care; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; teleconferencing; Internet; Unix operating system; anonymous FTP; bandwidth availability; dynamically adaptive multi-disciplinary workstation; early obsolescence minimization; health care centers; informatics interfaces; medical services; operational cost reduction; primary care physicians; remote logistical support; specialists; system acquisition process; telecommunications channel; telemedicine system architecture; videoconferencing software; Adaptive systems; Bandwidth; Communication channels; Communications technology; Computer architecture; Costs; Medical services; Teleconferencing; Telemedicine; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Image Management and Communications, 1995., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oahu Island, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7560-8
DOI :
10.1109/IMAC.1995.532593