The paper presents the design and architecture of a multifunctional telemedicine system for real-time teleconsultation in pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS). The application of telemedicine has shown to improve patient treatment quality and efficiency in various settings. Still, its use by pre-hospital EMS is lacking. Current technical, normative standards do not provide a sufficient framework in order to design a multifunctional telemedicine system for teleconsultation in pre-hospital EMS. Starting with a use-case driven requirements analysis, a telemedicine system usable in this setting is designed, realized and currently in use for evaluation by selected German EMS departments. This system uses commercial off-the-shelf medical devices, custom devices for communication and an individual system architecture, integrating the heterogeneous components as required by the defined use-cases
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Thelen, S., Schneiders, M.-T., Schilberg, D., & Jeschke, S. (2014). A Multifunctional Telemedicine System for Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Services. In Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2013/2014 (pp. 161–172). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08816-7_14
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