Journal of telemedicine and telecare
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We carried out a study to explore the potential of telemedicine and telecare to improve health-care for the population served by a health centre based in Deptford in south-east London. A wide range of potentially useful telemedicine and telecare applications was identified, nine of which could provide some immediate benefit. ⋯ Some suggestions focused on the need to integrate information technology with service provision. Other suggestions raised strategic questions, the most important of which concerned the routes of access to health-care.
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In Sweden, as in many other countries, paramedics or nurses constitute the majority of prehospital personnel. If tasks usually performed by doctors are to be performed by these personnel, there is a need for guidelines and triage in the handling of medical emergencies. We describe an information management system used in ambulances for data communication, documentation, triaging and presentation of checklists. ⋯ The latter date are transferred by a mobile radio network to the ambulance. Medical date (e.g. electrocardiograms) are transferred from the ambulance over the data network to the receiving medical facility. All transferred data are finally collected in a database for statistical analysis and follow-up.