Hira Adilson Yuuji, Lopes Thiago Tognoli, de Mello André Nebel, Filho Vicente Odone, Zuffo Marcelo Knörich, de Deus Lopes Roseli
Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
J Telemed Telecare. 2005;11 Suppl 2:S51-2. doi: 10.1258/135763305775124894.
A telemedicine network has been established in Brazil to support distance medical practice in paediatric oncology. ONCONET comprises a national network of universities, research institutes and medical institutions. The system is Web-based and hosted on a high-performance computing infrastructure based on clusters of computers. It is based on open-source software, designed to provide high performance, fault tolerance and high availability. The ONCONET began operation in 2004. Currently, 30 hospitals affiliated to the Brazilian Society for Paediatric Oncology are users of the ONCONET. Six hospitals are connected by broadband access through the National Education and Research Network and 24 by conventional Internet access. The Multimedia Patients Registry also became operational in 2004, and its database contains information on 3,200 patients from the 30 hospitals. The technological platform was notable for its low production cost. It thus appears to be a sustainable solution to the problem of delivering continuing medical education in a large country with widely dispersed health professionals.
巴西已建立一个远程医疗网络，以支持儿科肿瘤学的远程医疗实践。ONCONET由大学、研究机构和医疗机构组成的全国性网络构成。该系统基于网络，托管在基于计算机集群的高性能计算基础设施上。它基于开源软件，旨在提供高性能、容错能力和高可用性。ONCONET于2004年开始运行。目前，巴西儿科肿瘤学会下属的30家医院是ONCONET的用户。其中6家医院通过国家教育和研究网络以宽带接入，24家通过传统互联网接入。多媒体患者登记处也于2004年开始运行，其数据库包含来自这30家医院的3200名患者的信息。该技术平台的生产成本很低，因此对于在一个卫生专业人员分布广泛的大国提供继续医学教育问题而言，它似乎是一个可持续的解决方案。
