Telemedicine

Telemedicine

Introduction

The use of information technologies and telecommunication in for providing clinical health care to people living in distant locations, where immediate reach is not possible, is termed as Telemedicine. This new approach to clinical health care eradicates the distance barriers, while brining improvements to the access of medical care, whose availability is inconsistent in the remote areas. This technology is also used in cases of emergencies and critical care.

Although telemedicine had a number of precursors; however, it is principally a novel invention of the 20th century information technologies and telecommunication. These technologies not only allow the medical staff and the patient ...