J Korean Soc Med Inform.  2006 Sep;12(3):239-249.

Design of Hybrid Multimedia Telemedicine System over Heterogeneous Networks

Affiliations
  • 1Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea.
  • 2Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University, Korea.
  • 3Department of Medical Engineering, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Korea. sunkyoo@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
  • 4Center for Emergency Medical Informatics, Korea.
  • 5Human Identification Research Center, Korea.
  • 6Signal Processing Research Center, Korea.

Abstract


OBJECTIVE
The advancement of computing capabilities and increase of available network bandwidths have resulted in an emergency telemedicine services which can provide high quality medical services. However, existing telemedicine systems mainly have offered a one to one communication configuration instead of a multi-connection configuration. Therefore, we suggested a hybrid multimedia telemedicine system to support the multi-patients services in wired and wireless (heterogeneous) network environments.
METHODS
We designed the hybrid multimedia telemedicine system consisting of 4 sub-systems, a patient system, a doctor system, a emergency monitoring system, and a multi-control server system. The patient system could deliver multimedia data of a patient to the emergency monitoring system or to the doctor system according to link configuration. The link configuration was decided as 'Flowing', or 'By-passing' in accordance the connection type of patient systems or doctor systems. At this time, as the multi-control server system considers the hybrid network, it monitored the patient's multimedia data and the state of emergency telemedicine services.
RESULTS
The hybrid multimedia telemedicine system including the multi-control server system performed the best communication configuration over heterogeneous networks. This system achieved high quality emergency telemedicine services through dynamic wired and wireless networks at real-time.
CONCLUSION
This study represented a hybrid multimedia telemedicine system over heterogeneous networks in emergency cases. We expected that the designed system could provide not only the high quality services, tele-diagnosis and tele-consultation, but also the effective emergency telemedicine services to multi-patients in the heterogeneous network environments.

Keyword

Hybrid Multimedia Telemedicine System; Heterogeneous Networks; Emergency Telemedicine Service

MeSH Terms

Emergencies
Humans
Multimedia*
Telemedicine*
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