Balch D C, Tichenor J M
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1997 Jan-Feb;4(1):1-5. doi: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040001.
The definition of health information is growing to include multimedia audio, video, and high-resolution still images. This article describes the telemedicine program at East Carolina University School of Medicine, including the telemedicine applications presently in use and the virtual reality applications currently under development' Included are the major design criteria that shape the telemedicine network some of the lessons learned in developing the network, and a discussion of the future of telemedicine, including efforts to incorporate telemedicine within a fully integrated health information system.
健康信息的定义正在不断扩展，涵盖多媒体音频、视频和高分辨率静态图像。本文介绍了东卡罗来纳大学医学院的远程医疗项目，包括目前正在使用的远程医疗应用以及当前正在开发的虚拟现实应用。其中包括塑造远程医疗网络的主要设计标准、在开发该网络过程中吸取的一些经验教训，以及对远程医疗未来的讨论，包括将远程医疗纳入完全集成的健康信息系统的努力。
