All kinds of things depending on who they are. 1. Mobility availabilty. Such as emergency field vans going out to low income areas, being able to get broadband of some sort when they get there. 2. High enough capacity for sending xray/MRI scan data. For example if someone had a heart attack, a heart xray could be done in the field and forwarded to a far away heart surgence specialist for reveiw so an immediate diagnosis can be had. 3. There are still privacy and security of data issues, so broadband must accommodate HIPPA compliant systems. 4. Remote Monitoring. Pace makers could actually send updates to a remote monitoring system to make sure all is alive. Or could obtain an "alert" button to notifiy emergency monitoring center. 5. Patient record. A Online system that allow getting patient records remotely. 6. Online tools for patients, for example to manage their drug doseage history. (It can really get complicated for some patients.) 7. A video camera system, so that remote doctors can actually see a patients face or injury with their eyes. 8. The "ive fallen and cant get up" is a real problem. 9. PAtients that still live alone may tend to forget things. So systems can be put in place to verify certain applications are done when they are supposed to. I can give an example when My wife was on bed rest and there was a system that tracked all body vitals, and the data had to be uploaded to a remote nursing center once every X hours. There was a complicated machine to do this, that worked on dial up. But it would have been so much easier to be a real time broadband solution.
Part of telemedicine is that it can be quite an ordeal to get an older hard to move person to a hospitol. Expecially if they are in a unstable or non-mobile near paralyzed state, for example after a stroke. So the doctor comes to the patient in stead. There are actually many legal liabilties with sendign a doctor onsite, so most doctors will refuse to go. However, being able to interact with the patient via the Internet can avoid those liabilties, because it allows for communication and consultation, without liabilty of not being watched by a third party. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:23 PM Subject: [WISPA] Telemedicine > Has anyone here worked with telemedicine clients before? What are they > after? > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
