Abstract
Telemedicine offers the chance to meet successfully the increasing and partly even contradictory demands of modern healthcare. Hospitals should be in particular obliged to be a partner in telemedicine applications for general practitioners and external specialists today. Furthermore, they should also actively promote the future establishment of a comprehensive network of all healthcare providers. Telemedicine may be increasingly practiced by audio-visual dialing links among hospitals and peripheral institutions but this can only be the first step towards an integrated healthcare network. Beyond of the technical problems, however, a number of organizational and forensic questions (e.g. data protection) still have to be solved. This could be facilitated by establishing in-hospital networks in order to evaluate all of the elements which will be later on essential parts of a nation wide medical network. At any rate, no healthcare provider will be able not to cooperate actively on this field of medical telematics in the long run.
| Translated title of the contribution | Telemedicine - Tasks and demands of hospitals in a medical network |
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| Original language | German |
| Pages (from-to) | 95-101 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Klinikarzt |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |