Imagine being ill or in physical pain and knowing that there's a remedy out there some where - but you have no access to it - that's where we the TELMEDPAK team come in.In the past few years the alphabet "e" has been attached to almost everything - e-mail, e-learning, e-commerce, e-banking, e-retail and e-services to name a few. Yet the concept of 'e-health' is still a new and emerging one.
Gunther Eysenbach the 'virtual doctor' describes e-health as an "emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies." This article dives into just one aspect of the e-health pool - Telemedicine.
In its simplest form, Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical information and services. It involves the transfer of electronic medical data (i.e. high resolution images, sounds, live video and patient records) from one location to another.
This transfer of medical data utilizes a variety of telecommunication technology, including telephone lines, the internet, CD-ROMs and voice response systems. Telemedicine is utilized by health providers in a growing number of medical specialties including dermatology, oncology, radiology, surgery, cardiology, psychiatry, gynaecology and home health care.