Definisi Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the health service conducted from a distance (Telemedicine health care is carried out at a distance)

Telemidicine is the transfer of electronic medical data from one location to another (telemedicine is the transfer of electrical medical data from one location to another)Telemedicine is the practice of health communication using audio, visual and data. including treatment, diagnosis, treatment and consultation and exchange of medical data and scientific discussion distance.

Based on the above understandings, we may understand that a wide range of telemedicine, including the provision of health services (including clinical, educational and administrative services) long distance, through the transfer of information (audio, video, graphics), using telecommunications devices (audio -two-way interactive video, computers, and telemetry) by involving doctors, patients and other parties. Simply put, telemedicine has indeed applied when there discussion between the two doctors talk about patients by telephone.

History of Telemedicine

The idea of checks and medical evaluations by using the telecommunications network devices is not new. Having introduced the phone, telemedicine experiments have been done first by transmitting to the recording ekg through analog telephone network system. Although the transmission distance is only a few kilometers, but the clinical value is not so meaningful. After that, several times tried to do the transmission of heart and breath sounds between doctors and patients.

After World War II (1945), the image transmission technique developed by the military in Europe. That experience inspired the pioneer in developing techniques of medical delivery of medical images of diseases and disorders of the patient to the doctor. A number of medical researchers at that time has conducted educational activities, interpretation and diagnosis and make treatment of psychiatry, and radiology distance.

Along with advances in computer technology and the current digital systems, the development of the growing telemedicine. Medical equipment could produce digital images directly, but it can also change the video image into digital images. Today, the use of telemedicine is widely applied today in America, Greece, Israel, Japan, Italy, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Jordan, India, and Malaysia. RSF0606094680

Telemedicine Benefits

Benefits of telemedicine include into 3 interrelated aspects of one another ie patients, doctors and hospitals. Direct benefits for patients are:

* Accelerating the access of patients to referral centers.
* Easy to get help while waiting for help directly from private doctors.
* Patients still feel close to home where family and friends can provide direct support.
* Reduce mental stress or tension is felt in the workplace.
* Selection of patients that need to be taken to the hospital and patients who did not need treatment in hospital will stay at home.