Design and development of an interactive medical teleconsultation system over the World Wide Web.
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2000-03-31
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The objective of the medical teleconsultation system presented in this paper is to demonstrate the use of the World Wide Web WWW for telemedicine and interactive medical information exchange The system which is developed based on Java could provide several basic Java tools to fulfill the requirements of medical applications including a file manager data tool bulletin board and digital audio tool The digital audio tool uses point to point structure to enable two physicians to communicate directly through voice The others use multipoint structure The file manager manages the medical images stored in the WWW information server which come from a hospital database The data tool supports cooperative operations on the medical data between the participating physicians The bulletin board enables the users to discuss special cases by writing text on the board send their personal or group diagnostic reports on the cases and reorganize the reports and store them in its report file for later use The system provides a hardware independent platform for physicians to interact with one another as well as to access medical information over the WWW