DISTANCE MEDICAL COMMUNICATION BY VIDEO CONFERENCING

DISTANCE MEDICAL COMMUNICATION BY VIDEO CONFERENCING

It is one of the fastest growing areas of information technology and is the combination of dedicated audio, video and communication technology for real time interaction and often used by group of people who gather in a specific setting to communicate with other group at geographically dispersed locations. In nutshell, this technology allows people at two or more locations to see and hear each other at the same time.

Videoconferencing could be of three types:

1. Point to point videoconferencing, i.e. there are two participating sites for exchange of data and share applications. This is also known as desktop video-conferencing.
2. One to many videoconferencing, i.e. group videoconferencing where audio and video communications occurs between one main site to a number of other sites.
3. The third, type of videoconferencing is multi point where full audio-video interaction occurs between three or more locations.

The main components of telematics are:

1. Remote database access/update:
2. Tele-monitoring:
3. Tele videoconferencing;
4. Case handling/ message passing.