A number of patients are examined by a family doctor every day are not in such crucial conditions that have to be visited face-to-face. Instead, there are many patients that miss their examination turns just because of the length of the waiting list. By means of telemedicine system, a family doctor is able to check up and control her/his non-urgent patients remotely (even based on a schedule s/he can do it periodically) and this not only decreases the number of unnecessary visitations but also avoid wasting the time of the doctor and the other patients. Through this method, in addition to transfer voice and video over the internet, the system is capable to transmit all essential data like ECG, heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, RR, …. Furthermore, the interesting point is that there is no need to have a complicated server system, and a very simple PC, tablet or laptop is sufficient.
This Tele Family Doctor System has the ability to:
- Use a very simple tablet, PC or cellphone, as well as a user-friendly software
- Work with low bandwidth internet
- Transfer the image, voice and video between the patients’ home and a family physician clinic
- Transfer the data through SMS when the internet connection is disconnected
- Store all information about patients
- Be Installed in any kind of OS
- Work without any especial hardware requirement
- Record the patient information up to 100 GB
- Gather the data and use statistical facilities
- Control the options remotely by the doctors
- Be in a high level security against vulnerability
- Have no side effect on the other devices
- Search data by name, date, gender, age, disease type, etc.
- Be connected to the external antenna for GPRS and 3G
- Be connected to the external modules and medical devices by USB, RS 485, RS 232, WIFI, Bluetooth, and Ethernet
- Take a short processing time due to using ARM microprocessor and Intel
- Be multilingual
- Be connected to MySQL and SQL servers
- Use the facility of mirror storage for important data
