Technical overview of a web-based telemedicine system for wound assessment.
This report provides a technical overview of a Web-based telemedicine system for monitoring wounds in patients who do not have immediate access to the services of a consulting physician, including patients at home or in long-term-care facilities. Such a system would allow for the easy transmission and access of digital images of a patient's wounds and would allow multiple types of data required for comprehensive management of a patient's condition to be summarized and displayed. A store-and-forward method of data transmission was chosen for this project, rather than real-time videoconferencing, to limit the use of expensive technology and to maximize convenience for both the patient and the consulting physician. Under the store-and-forward technique, a clinician obtains wound data from the patient, then transmits these data to a Web site where the telemedicine physician can view data from multiple patients at his or her convenience.
Lowery
Julie C
JC
VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Hamill
Jennifer B
JB
Wilkins
Edwin G
EG
Clements
Ellen
E
D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods; D010781:Photography / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy