Summary Report by Ludwig Eckl, February 14th 2013

Telemedicine - Future of Clinical Medicine Telemedicine is a fast developing application of clinical medicine where medical information is transferred through interactive audiovisual media for the purpose of consulting remote medical procedures or examinations, reducing the time of consultation for people.

Telemedicine might be as easy as 2 health professionals discussing a case over the phone or as complex as using satellite technology as well as videoconferencing equipment to conduct a real-time consultation between medical specialists in 2 different countries. Telemedicine generally refers to the use of communications as well as information technologies for the delivery of medical care. This medical practice has dramatically reduced the time of consultation for people.

Teledermatology: Teledermatology (as an application of telemedicine was developed in 1995) can also help in prevention as well as diagnosis of skin cancer. Today, a reduction of morbidity and mortality of nonmelanoma as well as melanoma skin cancer is the most important challenge for dermatology: teledermatology can be considered a brand new tool that allows preventing and diagnosing skin cancers.

Dermoscopic images of pigmented skin lesions can be sent through internet to remote teleconsultants. The feasibility of teledermoscopy reveals a 91% consensus amongst the face-to-face diagnosis and the remote diagnosis.

Teledermatology has gained a good deal of interest among scientific community. It can deeply revolutionize the delivery of dermatology services, providing fair services to remote areas as well as allowing primary care doctors to refer patients to well-equipped dermatological services at a distance. Images can be transmitted through a virtual private network to the teledermoscopists, and those ones can be made mobile as the technology is handheld, overcoming geographical barriers, as well as delivering service to remote areas.

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Telemedicine as a standard of care:

Medical images, like x-rays and CT scans, have been viewed in digital form for forty many years. "Teleradiology" is now so common that many hospitals don't recognize the name - outsourcing part or perhaps all of a radiology program is simply the way aspects are now done in medical. Providing 24/7 services by a radiologist, making use of telehealth technologies, is the first form of telemedicine that becomes a true standard of care.

The rise of virtual medical centers: There tend to be many such examples that show growing trend and investment done by hospitals as well as health companies to set up virtual medical centers. A remote medical enterprise is whenever a hospital outsources specialties including neurology as well as psychiatry to a vendor that can offer the services 24/7 through telehealth.

Once such prominent example is of Mercy Hospitals, which announced that it would definitely develop a $90 million virtual care center near its headquarters in Chesterfield, Missouri. On a small scale, intensivists at Inova Health System in Virginia are based at business office building as well as provide remote ICU services to 122 ICU beds throughout northern Virginia.

Some Important Facts: Australia has the highest skin cancer incidence rate in the world. About one in ten reported cancers is a melanoma. The most recent figures show more than 10,000 diagnoses a year and 1400 deaths. The worldwide telehealth (remote patient monitoring) market will grow by 55 percent in 2013 in terms of device as well as service revenues. From 2010 to 2011, the telehealth usage worldwide increased by 22.2 %. Telehealth device profits just grew by 5 % more than that same time span; they grew 18 percent from 2011 to 2012. 2.8 million individuals worldwide used home-based remote monitoring devices in 2012. Forecast is that the number of these systems with integrated communication capabilities would definitely grow to 9.4 million connections worldwide by 2017. Telemedicine-dedicated device as well as software markets at $736 million in 2011 are anticipated to reach $2.5 billion by 2018. Whom Expected Exactly what for 2012? Wall Street Projected telemedicine to be $6bn industry in 2012 Information Monitor projected the same be $8bn industry in 2012 TechNavio goes four fold then Wall Street projections as well as expected $17.8bn industry in 2012

International Telemedicine market: Source: http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/mobile-wireless/global-telemedicine-market-headed-for-27/232602930 International Telemedicine Market on Basis of Technology: Source: http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/mobile-wireless/global-telemedicine-market-headed-for-27/232602930 Worldwide Marketplace for Telemedicine & Telehospital Services:

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/mobile-wireless/global-telemedicine-market-headed-for-27/232602930

Telemedicine for Diabetes: By 2020 estimated 7.2 million Americans will have diabetic retinopathy. Right now, nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes, and there are an additional 79 million Americans that are pre-diabetic. To treat this large diabetic population as well as surge in future diabetic retinopathy individuals, there are 20,000 ophthalmologists as well as 30,000 optometrists in practice which is certainly not enough. The demand for eye care will increase when that happens. Furthermore, as demand for eye care grows as well as the provide of eye care practitioners fails to keep pace, greater efficiencies will be needed.

To deal up with this growing demand eye care practitioners see telemedicine as a viable alternative due to the speed of the interaction as well as time saved in the office. Telemedicine provides a way to fast and inexpensively segregate diabetics without having retinopathy from those with retinopathy who need additional evaluation and treatment. Telemedicine also offers for more coordination of care between specialists who are managing a single patient.

Telemedicine offers a reliable, cost-effective means of screening diabetic individuals for retinopathy, that can lead to blindness. Because the number of diabetics in the United States is growing fast, but the supply of eye-care practitioners is definitely not, medical resources are strained and becoming more so. Certainly, definitely not every diabetic now receives the standard of care, an annual eye exam, but that situation will likely worsen except if alternative medical delivery systems tend to be employed to address it. With new, easy-to-use, non-mydriatic cameras, nurses and medical assistants without any ophthalmic training can learn to take excellent fundus photographs. These images can be transmitted to a reading center where they can be expertly evaluated.

Diabetes costs You almost $100 billion per year. Research shows that making use of e-health technologies to help people avoid a deterioration of their health condition, and reduce costly emergency space visits, validates the pursuit of using these tools, especially among economically disadvantaged patients. Source: http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=107266 The top five telehealth markets in North America, in ranking order, are: Home medical as well as disease management monitoring Remote doctor as well as specialist services Personal emergency response systems (PERSs) Video diagnostic consultation Remote cardiac services When combined, these markets generate more than $1.9 billion in revenue. Video Telemedicine Market (North America): Allow s take a look at market segmentation of video telemedicine marketplace in North America -

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