Collaborative access to medical images, electronic patient files, and so forth to assist treatment of patients who are abroad for holidays or work.
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VEMH: Virtual Euro-Mediterranean Hospital for Evidence-Based Medicine in The Euro-Mediterranean Region
G. Graschew (SRU OP 2000, Max-Delbrueck-Center and Robert-Roessle-Klinik, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany), T.A. Roelofs (SRU OP 2000, Max-Delbrueck-Center and Robert-Roessle-Klinik, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany), S. Rakowsky (SRU OP 2000, Max-Delbrueck-Center and Robert-Roessle-Klinik, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany), and P.M. Schlag (SRU OP 2000, Max-Delbrueck-Center and Robert-Roessle-Klinik, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany)
Copyright: © 2008
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch169
Abstract
Telemedicine aims at equal access to medical expertise irrespective of the geographical location of the person in need. New developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have enabled the transmission of medical images in sufficiently high quality that allows for a reliable diagnosis to be determined by the expert at the receiving site (Pande, 2003; Lacroix, 2002). At the same time, however, these innovative developments in ICT over the last decade bear the risk of creating and amplifying a digital divide in the world, creating a disparity between the northern and the southern Euro-Mediterranean area (Graschew, 2003a; Dario, 2005; Graschew, 2004).