Telemedicine iS defined as, the delivery of e-health services, where distance is a critical factor, by all e-health professionals using telecommunication technologies for the exchange of medical information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and injuries, research and evaluation, and for continuing education of health care providers, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their communities. Many developing countries have inadequate health care and medical services and suffer from a shortage of doctors and other health care professionals. The inadequate distribution of doctors/specialists, infrastructures of telecommunications, roads and transport make it even more difficult to provide health care in remote and rural areas. Where clinics and hospitals exist, they are often ill-equipped and, especially, outside urban areas beyond the reach of normal communications. Keeping in view natural disasters which severely damage landline communications, therefore, affected areas become isolated to provide medical facilities, in these situations; satellite communication by using VSAT technology is the reliable means of direct connection to the disaster areas where communication is critical for tele-medical consultations and patient treatment. SUPARCO, being a national space agency of Pakistan and having an experience in satellite communications has initiated a Satellite Communication based Telemedicine network as pilot project which has been successfully established. VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal), state of art technology has been selected to provide broad band (satellite) connectivity, for live video conferencing, transfer of high quality biomedical images i.e. CT scan, MRI, X-rays etc, that best meets the requirements of doctors/specialists.


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    Title :

    Suparco Telemedicine Pilot Project


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2007-06-01


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    1342102 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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