Integration of Telemedicine Activities in the Czech Republic

Author

Dostal, Otto ; Javornik, Michal ; Slavicek, Karel ; Ventruba, Pavel

Author_Institution

Masaryk Univ., Brno

fYear

2007

fDate

18-20 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

611

Lastpage

615

Abstract

Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University is working on the field of supporting medicine multimedia data transport archiving and processing more than ten years. Since first steps like transport of ultrasound and CT images across private fibre optics network these activities have grown up to regional PACS archive. Today more and more hospitals are participating on this project know under the name MediMed and we stand before scaling this project to republic wide application. Connection of remote hospitals introduced some not very common technical solutions. This paper describes current state of the art of MediMed project.

Keywords

decision making; medical computing; multimedia systems; Czech Republic; MediMed; medicine multimedia data transport archiving; private fibre optics network; telemedicine activities; Biomedical imaging; Computer networks; Computer science; Hospitals; Medical services; Optical fiber networks; Picture archiving and communication systems; Radiology; Space technology; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Information Technology, 2007. IIT '07. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1840-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1841-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIT.2007.4430470

Filename

4430470