Description about history and how Telemedicine help people to make life easy

1. Introduction to
Telemedicine
INDUSUNIVERSITY
Electronics & Communication Dept.
6th Semester

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Content
• Why Telemedicine ?
• History
• Types of telemedicine
• Which data can be transferred ?
• Benefits
• Applications
• Limitations to spread
• Telemedicine devices
• Future
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3. What is Telemedicine?
Telecommunication technology
+
Medicine
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4. What is Telemedicine?
The use of electronic information and
communication technologies to provide and
support health care when distance separates the
participants.
Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications in Health Care,
Institute of Medicine, CA, 199611/14/2016 4

5. Focused on patient care
• Telehealth
• Mobile Health (mHealth)
• Remote Monitoring
• Outsourced Specialty Services
Why Telemedicine?
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6. History of Telemedicine
 University of Nebrastea did first documented use of
visual telecommunication in health care in 1959.
 Under first telemedicine program in December 1988,
Armenia was linked to medical centers in United States
for telemedicine consultations.
1. Telegraphy and telephony was
established
1920s
2. Wireless / Radio 1950s
3. TV 1960s
4. Computer and Internet 1990/2000

7. History of Telemedicine
Boston Logan Airport to Massachusetts General Hospital
1967
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8. Types of Telemedicine
I. Store and forward
II. Interactive services
III. Remote monitoring
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9. Applications of Telemedicine
1. Remote Consultation
2. Remote Monitoring
3. Remote Education
4. Tele-mentoring
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10. 1. Remote Consultation
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12. 2. Remote Monitoring
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13. Access to information
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14. 3. Remote Education and collaboration
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15. 4. Tele-mentoring
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16. Applications
 Emergency Health Care
 Video Consulting
 Distance Leaning
 Medical education and the transfer of medical data.
 Medical care delivery, diagnosis, consultation and treatment at a distance.
 Nursing homes or retirement centers.
 Home monitoring for patients
 Health care in the after of disasters.

17. Which Data Can be Transferred ?
 Basically four types of data are used in telemedicine.
• Text for patient notes, generally having a file of less than 10 KB.
• Audio – electronic stethoscope, with file size of around 10 KB.
• Still image X-rays which are still images having a size of around 1 MB.
• Video movie – ultrasound / patient visualization – movie images have a size
of 10 MB or more the patient can be seen by a doctor at a remote place using
cameras.

18. Benefits of Telemedicine
 Resource utilization
 Early intervention
 Avoids unnecessary transportation
 Community based care
 Medical education and research
 Cost saving
 Improved patient documentation
 Increased range of care and education.

19. Limitations to spread of telemedicine
 Poor patient – Doctor Relationships
 Patient Acceptance
 Fear of Technology
 Infrastructure
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20. Future of telemedicine
 Many medical centers in India are now successfully running,
telemedicine – projects and video conference.
 Future of telemedicine in India is definitely bright-with availability of
internet every where, with new information's technology policies and
with improving telecommunication network use of telemedicine is
going to increase.
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21. Available Today
Online Services
Health App’s
Urgent Care
Wearables

22. Wi-Fi Smart Scale Blood Pressure
Monitor
Bluetooth Stethoscope
Blood Glucose Meter
Digital Thermometer
Available Soon
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23. Advanced Technologies
Robotics Remote Surgery Live Monitoring via
Cell Phones
Advanced Tumor Metrics

24. Ami Goswami
IU1241090014
Electronics & Comm. Dept.
Indus University
Ahmedabad.
Vatsal Shah
IU1241090055
Electronics & Comm. Dept.
Indus University
Ahmedabad.
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25. THANK YOU
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