The Creation of a global telemedical information society

Marsh, A

dc.contributor.author	Marsh, A	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:41:34Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:41:34Z
dc.date.issued	1998	en
dc.identifier.issn	1386-5056	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/30534
dc.subject.classification	Computer Science, Information Systems	en
dc.subject.classification	Health Care Sciences & Services	en
dc.subject.classification	Medical Informatics	en
dc.subject.other	Computer aided diagnosis	en
dc.subject.other	Computer simulation	en
dc.subject.other	Data communication systems	en
dc.subject.other	Information dissemination	en
dc.subject.other	Information management	en
dc.subject.other	Information technology	en
dc.subject.other	Interactive computer systems	en
dc.subject.other	Virtual reality	en
dc.subject.other	Wide area networks	en
dc.subject.other	Multimedial systems	en
dc.subject.other	Telemedicine	en
dc.subject.other	World wide web (WWW)	en
dc.subject.other	Health care	en
dc.subject.other	computer model	en
dc.subject.other	conference paper	en
dc.subject.other	information system	en
dc.subject.other	internet	en
dc.subject.other	medical information	en
dc.subject.other	priority journal	en
dc.subject.other	telecommunication	en
dc.subject.other	virtual reality	en
dc.subject.other	Europe	en
dc.subject.other	Forecasting	en
dc.subject.other	Humans	en
dc.subject.other	Information Systems	en
dc.subject.other	International Cooperation	en
dc.subject.other	Internet	en
dc.subject.other	Medical Informatics	en
dc.subject.other	Telemedicine	en
dc.title	The Creation of a global telemedical information society	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/S1386-5056(98)00039-2	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1386-5056(98)00039-2	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 visualized. The medical information management market is one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the healthcare device industry. The expected revenue by the year 2000 is US$21 billion. Telemedicine currently accounts for only a small segment but is expanding rapidly. In the USA more than 60% of federal telemedicine projects were initiated in the last 2 years. 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 World Wide Web (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 Euromed Project has identified 20 building blocks resulting in 39 steps requiring multi-disciplinary collaborations. Since, the organization of information is therefore 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, utilizes the WWW as a navigational medium to remotely access multi-media medical information systems. The visualization 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.The widespread acceptance of information technology in various health care applications has prompted the Euromed Project to develop a new global standard called Virtual Medical Worlds, which provides the potential to organize existing medical information and the foundations for its integration into future forms of medical information systems. Based on 3D reconstructed medical models, Virtual Medical Worlds utilizes the World Wide Web (WWW) as a navigational medium to remotely access multimedia medical information systems. The visualization and manipulation of hyper-graphical 3D body/organ templates and patient-specific 3D/4D/virtual reality models hope to define an information infrastructure in an emerging WWW-based telemedical information society.	en
heal.publisher	Elsevier Sci Ireland Ltd, Shannon, Ireland	en
heal.journalName	International Journal of Medical Informatics	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/S1386-5056(98)00039-2	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000075007200004	en
dc.identifier.volume	49	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	173	en
dc.identifier.epage	193	en