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A new telemedicine platform was developed to provide ECG file management, teleconferencing, and real-time transmission to help patients in remote areas access experienced medical care.
A new telemedicine platform was developed to facilitate ECG file management, teleconferencing, and real-time transmission for patients in remote areas.
May expand remote ECG access options; leaves open efficacy, scalability, and outcome impact pending prospective trials.
In this paper we present the principles of a new platform developed for handling ECG signals in a telemedicine setting. We focus on three basic services: an ECG file management system (acquisition, storage, transmission); ECG-oriented teleconferencing; and realtime transmission of ECGs over the telephone network. This work has been carried out in the context of national and EU-sponsored projects. Its main purpose was to help patients from remote or isolated areas, like small islands, with insufficient health-care services, to get appropriate and experienced medical care directly from large central hospitals. We present the design and the basic operations of the ECG handling system.
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Economakos et al. (1996) studied Patients in remote or isolated areas requiring ECG services. Telemedicine platform for ECG handling was evaluated. A new telemedicine platform was developed to provide ECG file management, teleconferencing, and real-time transmission to help patients in remote areas access experienced medical care.
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