title: TelFam: a telemedicine system for the family doctor practices.
abstract: The paper presents the TelFam telemedicine service system to support the daily practice of family doctors. The TelFam system covers two basic telemedicine services: telemonitoring of patients, and teleconsulting. The system architecture is comprised by three main components: server in the teleconsulting center, the doctor workstations and patient's home units. During a consultation a general practitioner and a specialist in the teleconsulting center exchange patient information, opinions, treatment suggestions and perform cooperative work on the same data in the WYSIWIS mode. Telemonitoring covers patient's vital signs (ECG, respiration, body temperature, SpO2, blood pressure) which next are processed to assess the patient's state.
authors.affiliation: Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Division of Systems & Computer Networks, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-372 Wroclaw, Poland. kumar@zssk.pwr.wroc.pl
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurzynski
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Puchala
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wozniak
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003199:Computer Systems; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*