title: Real-time emergency telemedicine system: prototype design and functional evaluation.
abstract: In this paper, an emergency telemedicine system was designed for the transmission of real-time multimedia for remote consultation, including radiological images, patient records, video-conferencing, full-quality video, ECG, BP, respiration, temperature, SpO(2), systolic and diastolic pressures and heart rate. The standardized, modular, software-based design architecture, without resorting to external hardware compression boards, enables the low-cost implementation of the telemedicine system, using the unified, systematic and compact integration of multimedia on general personal computers. Experimental tests on local networks analyze the technical aspects of designed systems, and inter-hospital experiments demonstrate its clinical usefulness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Engineering, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134, Shinchon-dong, Seodaemoon-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea. sunkyoo@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
authors.forename: Sun K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Kwang Min
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seok Myung
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Nam Hyun
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sun Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jin Bae
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: In-Cheol
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jin Ho
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Seung-Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D003201:Computers; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*