An Agent Based Architecture for Telemedicine System-A Conceptual Approach

Telemedicine is delivery of health care information across distances using telecom technology. This includes transfer of images like XRays, CT, MRI, ECG etc. from patient to expert doctors seamlessly, apart from the live videoconferencing between the patient at remote hospital with the specialists at the super specialty hospital for tele-consultation and treatment. The major challenges ahead include evolving an effective operations and revenue model for making the telemedicine facility self-sustainable. For dealing with these challenges we have proposed a new architecture that can be associated with existing architecture. A new concept of patient data, which will be transmitted from remote hospital to referral hospital and it contains the additional information about data residing in data packet being transmitted. Also a new concept of tag bit has been proposed to differentiate between remote patient data and local patient data.