title: [Telemedicine--technology, application, evaluation and prospect].
abstract: With the information society drawing near, the pattern of medical treatment is changing. Telemedicine is now carrying out many purposes such as family health care, first aid, expert consultation, long-distance intervene and learning communication in it's particular mode. This article will enter into some engineering-technology methods of medical information transmission (including data, sound and image), introduce several application field of telemedicine , evaluate the potential benefit, virtue and some problems which are likely to arise in the implement of telemedicine, and forecast the development of telemedicine in the future.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Bio-Medical Engineering, Shanghai University, China.
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000639:trends*