Open AccessReal-time Emergency Telemedicine System: Prototype Design and Functional Evaluation
Author(s) -
Sun Kook Yoo,
Kwang Min Kim,
Seung Boo Jung,
Nam Hyun Kim,
Sun Ho Kim,
Jin bae Park,
In cheol Park,
Jin Ho Oh,
Seung Ho Kim
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
yonsei medical journal/yonsei medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1976-2437
pISSN - 0513-5796
DOI - 10.3349/ymj.2004.45.3.501
Subject(s) - telemedicine , computer science , videoconferencing , modular design , teleconference , multimedia , software , data compression , embedded system , real time computing , health care , operating system , artificial intelligence , economics , economic growth
In this paper, an emergency telemedicine system was designed for the transmission of real-time multimedia for remote consultation, including radiological images, patient records, video-conferencing, full-quality video, ECG, BP, respiration, temperature, SpO(2), systolic and diastolic pressures and heart rate. The standardized, modular, software-based design architecture, without resorting to external hardware compression boards, enables the low-cost implementation of the telemedicine system, using the unified, systematic and compact integration of multimedia on general personal computers. Experimental tests on local networks analyze the technical aspects of designed systems, and inter-hospital experiments demonstrate its clinical usefulness.