title: Real-time medical applications and telecommunications.
abstract: Telecommunications play an important role in telemedicine. Many forms of telecommunication services based on different telecommunication technologies are developed for various needs. The paper deals with complex real-time applications which demand high telecommunication requirements. At the beginning, medical applications are categorised and real-time applications qualified as multimedia applications. Requirements for multimedia elements are listed separately. Later on, short introduction of related telecommunication protocols is given. Real-time medical applications can show their ability in case of guaranteed quality of services delivered by telecommunication network as it is explained in the end.
authors.affiliation: Smart Com d.o.o., Ljubljana, Slovenija.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stravs
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D019212:Multimedia; D019114:Remote Consultation; D017524:Slovenia; D013685:Telecommunications; D017216:Telemedicine