Telemedicine uses telecommunication and information technologies to provide remote clinical healthcare. It began in the 1950s with telegraphy and telephony and has expanded to include technologies like TV, computers, and the internet. Telemedicine can be used for remote consultation, monitoring, education, and mentoring. It allows for the exchange of medical data like text, audio, images, and video between providers and patients separated by distance. Telemedicine provides benefits like improved access to care, cost savings, and medical education and has applications in emergency care, chronic disease management, and disaster response. While it faces limitations from infrastructure and acceptance issues, its future potential is high as technologies continue to advance.

1. Introduction to
Telemedicine
INDUSUNIVERSITY
Electronics & Communication Dept.
6th Semester

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Content
• Why Telemedicine ?
• History
• Types of telemedicine
• Which data can be transferred ?
• Benefits
• Applications
• Limitations to spread
• Telemedicine devices
• Future
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3. What is Telemedicine?
Telecommunication technology
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Medicine
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4. What is Telemedicine?
The use of electronic information and
communication technologies to provide and
support health care when distance separates the
participants.
Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications in Health Care,
Institute of Medicine, CA, 199611/14/2016 4

5. Focused on patient care
• Telehealth
• Mobile Health (mHealth)
• Remote Monitoring
• Outsourced Specialty Services
Why Telemedicine?
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6. History of Telemedicine
 University of Nebrastea did first documented use of
visual telecommunication in health care in 1959.
 Under first telemedicine program in December 1988,
Armenia was linked to medical centers in United States
for telemedicine consultations.
1. Telegraphy and telephony was
established
1920s
2. Wireless / Radio 1950s
3. TV 1960s
4. Computer and Internet 1990/2000

7. History of Telemedicine
Boston Logan Airport to Massachusetts General Hospital
1967
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8. Types of Telemedicine
I. Store and forward
II. Interactive services
III. Remote monitoring
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9. Applications of Telemedicine
1. Remote Consultation
2. Remote Monitoring
3. Remote Education
4. Tele-mentoring
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10. 1. Remote Consultation
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12. 2. Remote Monitoring
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13. Access to information
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14. 3. Remote Education and collaboration
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15. 4. Tele-mentoring
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16. Applications
 Emergency Health Care
 Video Consulting
 Distance Leaning
 Medical education and the transfer of medical data.
 Medical care delivery, diagnosis, consultation and treatment at a distance.
 Nursing homes or retirement centers.
 Home monitoring for patients
 Health care in the after of disasters.

17. Which Data Can be Transferred ?
 Basically four types of data are used in telemedicine.
• Text for patient notes, generally having a file of less than 10 KB.
• Audio – electronic stethoscope, with file size of around 10 KB.
• Still image X-rays which are still images having a size of around 1 MB.
• Video movie – ultrasound / patient visualization – movie images have a size
of 10 MB or more the patient can be seen by a doctor at a remote place using
cameras.

18. Benefits of Telemedicine
 Resource utilization
 Early intervention
 Avoids unnecessary transportation
 Community based care
 Medical education and research
 Cost saving
 Improved patient documentation
 Increased range of care and education.

19. Limitations to spread of telemedicine
 Poor patient – Doctor Relationships
 Patient Acceptance
 Fear of Technology
 Infrastructure
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20. Future of telemedicine
 Many medical centers in India are now successfully running,
telemedicine – projects and video conference.
 Future of telemedicine in India is definitely bright-with availability of
internet every where, with new information's technology policies and
with improving telecommunication network use of telemedicine is
going to increase.
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21. Available Today
Online Services
Health App’s
Urgent Care
Wearables

22. Wi-Fi Smart Scale Blood Pressure
Monitor
Bluetooth Stethoscope
Blood Glucose Meter
Digital Thermometer
Available Soon
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23. Advanced Technologies
Robotics Remote Surgery Live Monitoring via
Cell Phones
Advanced Tumor Metrics

24. Ami Goswami
IU1241090014
Electronics & Comm. Dept.
Indus University
Ahmedabad.
Vatsal Shah
IU1241090055
Electronics & Comm. Dept.
Indus University
Ahmedabad.
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25. THANK YOU
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