Gerard:
Telemedicine covers a lot more than use of the Internet. At a recent
conference a rheumatology consultant from Leeds described (in a formal
paper) how he telephones some of his patients to find out how they are and
save them the trouble of coming up to his outpatients just to have 2 words
with him and go home again.
And someone else reminded us that perhaps the earliest use of telemedicine
was when a Seamen's mission society in New York took out a licence in, I
think, 1920, to advise mariners on medical problems by radio. This concept
was further developed by the Italian organisation that since 1937 has
maintained a world medical service by radio to mariners anywhere who get in
touch with it needing advice or help.
Senior Lurker
At 11:50 AM 1/30/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I could be wrong, but is your concept TELEMEDICINE as they call it in the USA?
>Practicing medicine using Internet technology?
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>GF
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