Accession Number:

ADA411242

Title:

Enabling Technology for Telemedicine and Telehealth

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

ENST IMAGE AND TRAITEMENT DE L'INFORMATION DEPARTEMENT BREST (FRANCE)

Personal Author(s):

• Solaiman, B.
• Cauvin, J. M.
• Puentes, J.
• Le Guillou, C.
• Brunet, G.

Report Date:

2001-10-25

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

Telemedicine is a growing field and has to face various challenges like its integration to the medical practice and to the health care system, its economic implication and its social impact. This paper will focus on the technological aspects of Telemedicine that will be first reviewed. Three main dimensions will be shown to structure the technological space of Telemedicine Network Information Processing and Knowledge Engineering. These three components will be briefly discussed, In a second part we will develop three specific issues addressing challenging image and knowledge engineering problems.

Descriptors:

• *TECHNOLOGY FORECASTING
• *TELEMEDICINE
• NETWORKS
• FRANCE
• KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS
• INFORMATION PROCESSING
• HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
• KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research
• Information Science
• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE