Teleconsultation for endoscopic diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases--concepts and architecture of the service ENDOTEL

This paper introduces ENDOTEL as a new project in telemedicine, aiming to reduce local disadvantages in medical health care in rural areas. The progressing specialization in medicine results in a concentration of experts in few medical centers and to deficits of expert knowledge in rural areas, whic...

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Published inStudies in health technology and informatics Vol. 68; p. 234
Main Authors Balbach, T, Sussmann, H, Jansen, T, Allescher, H D, Horsch, A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 1999
Subjects
Computer Systems
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
Gastrointestinal Diseases - diagnosis
Germany
Humans
Online Systems
Remote Consultation - instrumentation
Germany
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Summary:This paper introduces ENDOTEL as a new project in telemedicine, aiming to reduce local disadvantages in medical health care in rural areas. The progressing specialization in medicine results in a concentration of experts in few medical centers and to deficits of expert knowledge in rural areas, which remain as a domain of unspecialized physicians. ENDOTEL expands the conventional synchronous telemedical communication, which usually means videoconference, by an asynchronous multimedia communication and its resulting advantages. ENDOTEL breaks up with the need that participants have to be present simultaneously.
ISSN:0926-9630
DOI:10.3233/978-1-60750-912-7-234