The creation of a 21st century telemedical information society

Marsh, A

dc.contributor.author	Marsh, A	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:14:13Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:14:13Z
dc.date.issued	1998	en
dc.identifier.issn	0167-739X	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/12935
dc.subject	Information society	en
dc.subject	Telemedicine	en
dc.subject	World Wide Web	en
dc.subject.classification	Computer Science, Theory & Methods	en
dc.subject.other	Health care	en
dc.subject.other	Interactive computer systems	en
dc.subject.other	Medical applications	en
dc.subject.other	Medical computing	en
dc.subject.other	Three dimensional computer graphics	en
dc.subject.other	Virtual reality	en
dc.subject.other	Wide area networks	en
dc.subject.other	Information society	en
dc.subject.other	Medical information systems	en
dc.subject.other	Telemedicine	en
dc.subject.other	Virtual medical world	en
dc.subject.other	World wide web (WWW)	en
dc.subject.other	Information management	en
dc.title	The creation of a 21st century telemedical information society	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/S0167-739X(98)00005-3	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-739X(98)00005-3	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	1998	en
heal.abstract	Healthcare is a major candidate for improvement in any vision of the kinds of ""information highways"" and ""information societies"" that are now being visualised. The concept of telemedicine captures much of what is developing in terms of technology implementations, especially if it is combined with the growth of the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). It is foreseen that the WWW will become the most important communication medium of any future information society. If the development of such a society is to be on a global scale, it should not be allowed to develop in an ad hoc manner. For this reason, the EC ISIS'95 supported Euromed project has identified 20 building blocks resulting in 39 steps requiring multi-disciplinary collaborations. Since, the organisation of information is critical especially when concerning healthcare the Euromed project has also introduced a new (global) standard called ""Virtual Medical Worlds"" which provides the potential to organize existing medical information and provide the foundations for its integration into future forms of medical information systems. Virtual Medical Worlds, based on 3D reconstructed medical models, utilises the WWW as a navigational medium to remotely access multi-media medical information systems. The visualisation and manipulation of hyper-graphical 3D ""body/organ"" templates and patient-specific 3D/4D/and VR models is an attempt to define an information infrastructure in an emerging WWW-based telemedical information society. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.	en
heal.publisher	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV	en
heal.journalName	Future Generation Computer Systems	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/S0167-739X(98)00005-3	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000074480700002	en
dc.identifier.volume	14	en
dc.identifier.issue	1-2	en
dc.identifier.spage	3	en
dc.identifier.epage	22	en