Diseño de una red de telemedicina para zonas urbanas de difícil acceso: Caso Baruta - El Hatillo

Abstract

Telemedicine relates to the use of the Telecommunications to improve the quality of health services in remote or isolated areas. Telemedicine application varies depending on the net area development. The problems that arise for telemedicine in developing countries are analyzed in this work. Main wired and wireless technologies that allow access to nets are described. Problems at health level in Baruta and El Hatillo municipalities in Miranda State in Venezuela are presented here, and finally a pilot net proposal is posed regarding the application and deployment in these municipalities, which will interconnect sixteen rural and urban outpatient units along with a reference hospital, the Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad. Such net will allow teleconsultations, telecardiology and out patient units control information delivering. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.