History and Evolution of telemedicine, Functional diagram of telemedicine system, Telemedicine, Telehealth, Telecare, Organs of telemedicine, Global and Indian scenario. Advances in Telemedicine.
Principles of Multimedia – Text, Audio, Video, data, Data communications and networks, PSTN, POTS, ANT, ISDN, Internet, Air/ wireless communications Communication infrastructure for telemedicine – LAN and WAN technology. Satellite communication, Mobile communication.
Data Security and Standards: Encryption, Cryptography, Mechanisms of encryption, phases Encryption. Protocols: TCP/IP, ISO-OSI, Standards to followed DICOM, HL7, H.320 series Video Conferencing, Security and confidentiality of medical records, Cyber laws related to telemedicine.
Confidentiality, patient rights and consent: confidentiality and the law, the patient-doctor relationship, access to medical records, consent treatment – data protection and security, jurisdictional issues, intellectual property rights.
Teleradiology, telepathology, telecardiology, teleoncology, teledermatology, telesurgery, e Health and Cyber Medicine.
Reference Book:
1.O'Carroll, P.W., Yasnoff, W.A., Ward, E., Ripp, L.H., Martin, E.L. (Eds), “Public Health Informatics and Information Systemsâ€, Springer, 2003. 2.Ferrer-Roca, O., Sosa - Iudicissa, M. (Eds.), Handbook of Telemedicine. IOS Press (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 54, 2002
Text Book:
1.Norris, A.C. “Essentials of Telemedicine and Telecareâ€, Wiley, 2002. 2.Wootton, R., Craig, J., Patterson, V. (Eds.), “Introduction to Telemedicine. Royal Society of Medicine†Press Ltd, Taylor & Francis 2006
