Full Description
Telemedicine, the practice of transferring medical data using interactive audio, visual and data communication systems, is fast becoming indispensable in modern medicine, healthcare and education. This volume reviews the rapidly expanding and changing field of telemedicine in general with a special focus on teledermatology. As well as presenting historical and technological aspects, the book also describes several of the many fields of application in detail - one of them being teleteaching which already forms an essential part of medical training. Another major issue in telemedicine is the discussion of legal and ethical aspects of teleconsulting. Further contributions acquaint the reader with the various possibilities of telemedicine such as telemedicine for the family doctor, teleradiology, applications in surgery, telepathology, telecardiology, telemedicine in oncology and ophthalmology, and telepsychiatry. The particular aspects of teledermatology are discussed in detail in a separate section. All healthcare professionals from the medical practitioner to the pharmacist, healthcare manager, nurse or technician will find this compilation of up-to-date data valuable reading. The detailed discussion of teledermatology makes it indispensable for the dermatologist.
Contents
Telemedicine in a new world: the telemedical information society - doctor's playground or contribution to the evolution of healthcare?, G. Burg, M. Denz; The history of telemedicine, C. Cipolat, M. Geiges. Technology: the communtication revolution goes on - global high-speed nerworks - setting the pace for future multimedia applications, A. Haffner, K. Zepter; Image and video compression - the principles behind the technology, A. Burg; Teledermatolgy delivery modalities - real time versus store and forward, P.S. Whitten. Teleteaching: teleteaching tools in dermatology on the Web, R. Kropf, C. Cipolat, G. Burg; telemedical training at the Department of Gynaecology, University Hospital, Zurich, U. Haller, H. Gabathuler; towards a virtual education in pharmaceutical sciences - an innovative e-learning approach, V.V. Tran, S. Lichtsteiner, B. Ernst, M. Otto, G. Folkers. Teleconsulting - legal, ethical and consumer aspects: changes patients expect to result from telemedicine, S. Tachakra; satisfaction of paramedical personnel, L.L. Hicks; economic aspects - saving billions with telemedicine - fact or fiction?, I.S. Kristiansen, P.B. Poulsen, K.U. Wittrup Jensen; secure transfer of medical data over the Internet - from regulatory data protection jam to framework-based requirements, H. Boesch, G. Airaghi; potential of telemedicine in primary care, S. Reichlin, A. Dyson, D. Muller, A. Fischer, H.R. Fischer, C. Beglinger. Fields of application of telemedicine: telemedicine for the family doctor, M.W. Kurzynski; teleradiology, D.R. Voellmy, B. Marincek; telemedicine application in surgery, N. Demartines; modern telepathology - a distributed system with open standards, M. Oberholzer, H. Christen, G. Haroske, M. Helfrich, H. Oberli, G. Jundt, G, Stauch, M. Mihatsch, K. Brauchli; telecardiology, B. Zeevi; telemedicine in oncology, I. Olver; telemedicine in ophthalmology, G.G, Hammack; implementation of a telepsychiatric network in Northern Finland, M.-L. Mielonen, L. Vaisanen, J. Moring, A. Ohinmaa, M. Isohanni; telemedicine and real-time monitoring of climbers, R.M. Satava; telemedicine in corrections, G.G. Hammack. Teledermatology: teledermatology in clinical use - Dermanet a tailor-made tool for teledermatology, aspects of quality face-to-face versus teleconsulting, teledermatology in the nursing home, a survey among dermatologists in practice about teledermatology; teledermatology teaching - dematology online with interactive technology (DOIT), telematics-based teaching in dermatology, image archives, audio- and video-sequences for teleteaching, dermatology course 2000 an interactive multimedia dermatology course for students; teledermatopathology - teledermoscopy, teledermatoscopy in daily routine results of the first 100 cases, HistoClinC a Web-based telemedicine application for clinicopathologic correlations in dermatopathology. Global telemedicine. (Part contents)
