Telemedicine history

As a surprise to many that the concept of telemedicine is not that new and started actually when telecommunications got the significant part in our life. The core concept of sending data and information through over a distance has repeated itself again and again in form of written telegraphs, voice telephone calls and Radio waves. For the same reason explains why telemedicine related theoretical with telecommunication channels and related technologies. Since Alexander Graham invented and got patented the telephone 1876 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz did their first radio wave emission the race of wired and wireless communication went to the peak. At beginning was hard and difficult to apply the same telecommunication technologies by the same devices in medical field but along decades the trials did not stop to get and involve part of wireless technologies in healthcare industry. Pennsylvania 1950’s medical staff of two medical centers they started to transmitted radiologic images data and description through telephone. Afterward some radiologists in Montreal did the same with modification to Tele-radiology system of image transmissions and exchange between hospitals. Couple of years later 1959, University of Nebraska medical staff had succeeded to transmit neurological examination to students via two way interactive television network. By 1964, they built a telemedicine platform link allowed health services provision at Norfolk State Hospital, 112 miles far from the campus. The point of explosion to work and evolve over Tele-medical communication channels moved strongly when the medical workers found that when they used data delivery channels among them and within medical work. The results got better and effort became much less than usual at the time, everything changed once they involve the remote communication channels.

After decades till now; the matter of data nature got more complicated and rich in quantities and qualities with no doubts that Tele-medicine will be new vehicle of data transmission between providers and value receivers. Many projects designed to affect and confirm the goal and practically applied with sporadic remote communities in order to do fit positioning of technology utilizations of different sorts from wired and wireless communication platform between physicians and nurses in one side and patients and care takers from other side. It was not strange that people accepted the idea quickly than had been imagined and moreover took it as new tool for survival of their family lives. They found in Tele-medicine time to talk to the GPs regularly and say what was hard instead of take days of travelling to tell them so. Medical care and consultations arrived over there with nothing to pay from your effort, money and time even if there is no full facilities medical care but at least to find a channel to ask and know what you going to do with your case.

Now the matter of sending personal medical data to Family doctor is normal and regular action repeated whenever you want to do. After occupying the web our life and work tasks which enable physicians and medical staffs to be ready and get your medical data and check with you everything throughout hours of the day. The care and communication got easier with patients especially children while the patients feel more satisfied with new technologies and started by themselves to exaggerate the role of Tele-medicine and Tele-communication in healthcare to prove somewhat that Telemedicine changed their life for better and healthier. Full health J