Challenges in Laboratory Data Management for Telemedical Services

Lilias Annor Owusu(1*), Konstantin Koshechkin(2)


(1) Department of Information and Internet Technologies, Institute of Digital Medicine, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia
(2) Department of Information and Internet Technologies, Institute of Digital Medicine, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


Background: The practice of providing clinical care remotely via electronic communications is known as telemedicine.

Objective: To improve patients' health, the World Health Organization (WHO) created the term in the 1970s to describe a legitimate method of exchanging medical information about diagnosing, treating, and preventing illness and injury through information and communication technology. 

Result: The notion of telemedicine is not a novel one. In both wealthy and underdeveloped nations, telemedicine is a cutting-edge idea that is expanding. ICT, or information and communication technology, is a significant factor in improving healthcare at the individual and community levels.

Conclusion: Today, "telemedicine"—providing healthcare over long distances—uses ICT systems. Introducing ICT is meant to enable decentralized health services.

Keywords


Telemedicine; technology; healthcare; patients; physician

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