Telemedicine trends and challenges: a technology management perspective
by J. Puentes, R.K. Bali, N. Wickramasinghe, R.N.G. Naguib
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007

Abstract: After four generations of varied applications, telemedicine now finds itself at a crossroads. Validated concepts have integrated the available technology to handle the basic system components, as well as data and information processing, in multiple manners. Medical data exchange has been tested as a result. Among the multiple technology evolutions that could be identified as significant trends we have selected four – wireless broadband, non-invasive sensors, emerging multimedia standards, and open source software – which are likely to have an impact on the current telemedicine progression, at the functional and economic levels. What follows is a description of each technology's main characteristics.

Online publication date: Fri, 22-Jun-2007

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