title: [Chairman's introductory remarks].
abstract: Remote medicine, as well as the technological development of IT, has been realized in various fields of medical care. Reports have been published of the actual utilization of a system of remote diagnosis by infectious disease surveillance in each region of Nagano Prefecture, a telepathology system in Nagano, operation case of a radiological image remote diagnosis. Situation in the lack of pathologists and radiologists, that changes in the way of working of the physician, or medical information digitized convey how the doctor involved in the diagnosis, any diagnosis based on the information that was received doctor such as whether to perform, various issues have been raised. Soot digitization of information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Tokatsu Hospital, Nagareyama 270-0174, Japan. fwg11316@Cmb.infoweb.ne.jp
authors.forename: Masamune
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D019114:Remote Consultation; D019113:Telepathology / Q000379:methods