Java technology in the Theater Telemedicine Prototype Project (T2P2)

Author

Vasilescu, Eugene N. ; Beebe, William ; Goldrich, Seth ; Thornhill, Cecil

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

62

Abstract

Tripler Army Medical Center is the Government agent responsible for Project AKAMAI, a Department of Defense (DoD) health project focused on assessing the value of telemedicine/telehealth and telecommunications technologies in the Pacific Region Health Care System. As part of this focus the Akamai team has been evaluating the potential of Web based telemedicine software tools to enhance remote clinicians´ and medical providers´ abilities to use the expertise at a regional facility, e.g. Tripler Army Medical Center for medical consultation. The paper discusses the development of a Theater Telemedicine Prototype Project (T2P2), designed to provide a testbed to explore and evaluate the performance of Web based store and forward delivery of consultative care

Keywords

Internet; Java; information resources; military computing; telemedicine; Department of Defense; Java; Pacific Region Health Care System; Project AKAMAI; T2P2; Theater Telemedicine Prototype Project; Tripler Army Medical Center; World Wide Web; telemedicine; Bandwidth; Costs; Delay effects; Instruments; Java; Medical services; Prototypes; Real time systems; Road transportation; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Technology Symposium, 1998. Proceedings. Pacific

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8667-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACMED.1998.767908

Filename

767908