Title :
A low cost multimedia tool for telemedicine network rapid design
Author :
Gandar, Marc ; Mlynek, Daniel ; Osseiran, Adam
Author_Institution :
MediaFlow Inc., USA
Abstract :
In a hospital, the improvement of patient care requires the use of reliable (fault tolerant) and multimedia communication technologies between the patient´s bed and the nurse´s room. Today´s solutions are inflexible or expensive. To answer these needs, we propose MediaFlow, a flexible inexpensive solution based on a versatile software/hardware tool
Keywords :
medical information systems; multimedia communication; MediaFlow; low cost multimedia tool; multimedia communication technologies; patient care; telemedicine network rapid design; versatile software/hardware tool; Application software; Cables; Costs; Hardware; Hospitals; Network topology; Reduced instruction set computing; Software tools; Telemedicine; Video sharing;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Signal Processing, 1997., IEEE First Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3780-8
DOI :
10.1109/MMSP.1997.602688
