Telemedicine in the USA: standardization through information management and technical applications

Author

Choi, Young B. ; Krause, Joshua S. ; Seo, Hyewon ; Capitan, Kathleen E. ; Chung, Kyusuk

Author_Institution

James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA, USA

Volume

44

Issue

4

fYear

2006

fDate

4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

48

Abstract

In this article, we describe the need for telemedicine standards and classify various standards of telemedicine. The emerging issues in telecommunications standards, the application of these standards in the health care industry, and future development directions of telemedicine standards are described. Especially, the telemedicine code standardization of drugs and health care providers, multimedia-conferencing-based ISO telemedicine standards, information security management, wireless technology advances for telemedicine using sensor networks, and future standardization issues and considerations are introduced and discussed in detail.

Keywords

drugs; health care; information management; multimedia communication; telecommunication standards; teleconferencing; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; ISO telemedicine standards; USA; drugs; health care industry; health care providers; information management; information security management; multimedia-conferencing; sensor networks; telecommunications standards; wireless technology; Communication industry; Health information management; ISO standards; Information management; Medical services; Standardization; Standards development; Telecommunication standards; Telemedicine; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2006.1632648

Filename

1632648