title: Telemedicine in the context of different medical specialities. The Polish perspective.
abstract: Two types of telemedicine are considered in the paper: pre-recorded and real-time. The advantages and disadvantages of each type are described.The choice of telemedicine type depends on medical speciality. The separate branch of telemedicine--teleprevention of civilization diseases is discussed and examples of relevant WWW services in Poland are given. The own work examples of the Dept. of Medical Informatics, MUW, namely Onco-service of 200 protocols used in hematology and oncology and Cardio.net--a distributed teleinformation system for cardiology, are presented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the barriers of the development of telemedicine in Poland are caused by the organization of health service--Patients Funds using different software, no messaging standards and different reimbursement systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Medical University, Warszawa. robert.rudowski@amwaw.edu.pl
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rudowski
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008511:Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011044:Poland; D013038:Specialization; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*