In order to record X rays a Pacs – Dicom server is usually needed. A demo for a DICOM reader is located at: http://medical-records.net/dicom3/ This is a tomography (X Ray in multiple layers), and can be enlarged, reduced, brightened, darkened, and moved around. This is quite a complex issue, the readers usually work together with PACS …
Category Archives: Telemedicine
Online Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR)
The Electronic Medical Records issue is quite complex, because there is no standard yet, and thousands of competing applications try to conquer the big clients. Some are Open Source, some are free, many are sold. A few countries and states have decided to implement a single EMR application, to lower costs and focus all the …
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Psychological Testing and Treatment
To this proposal, the 3 medical businesses described above apply: Online EMR, Telemedicine, Marketing and Marketplaces. Psychology is a discipline that can greatly benefit from the Internet, because there is no strict need for physical contact between patient and doctor. Of course, something is lost when human proximity is replaced by a webcam. There are …
Opportunities for Pharmaceutical Companies
The 5 previous proposals have many advertising and sponsorship places for drug companies. Doctors who are active online are likely to be more influential and see more patients that those who are hiding in their offices, and pharm sales reps need to identify them and see them, virtually or physically. When a product is being …
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Medical Knowledge Marketplaces
Once the patients have an online medical record (EMR) most patients can examined by online doctors, and in many cases those remote professionals can solve the problem. Of course we are excluding many cases in which human contact is necessary for physical or psychological reasons. I conceive the near future of medical care as …
Medical Marketing
Doctors have ethical restrictions for doing marketing, and for that reason there are Patient Referral Services that with supposed objectivity advice patients as to which doctor to go. They have existed for a long time, but the web based ones are easier to run, more efficient and have wider reach. Medical Marketing can sell the …
Telemedicine
Telemedicine refers to any medical action done at a distance. For some tasks this is a very easy, and does not really need the physical doctor-patient contact. Or the contact can be replaced by video cameras and touch-sensitive data gloves. For instance, interpreting EKG, EEG or X Ray images is often done with the …
Medical Advice Online – This site
This site has two faces. Originally started as a forum where I provide free medical advice online, for English-speaking patients. It now incorporated this blog where I discuss eHealth issues, mostly from the business viewpoint.A small advantage of being based in Argentina is that I can do things like this, out of reach for American …
Medical Knowledge Marketplace
Imagine a situation where a complicated case is exposed to an unexperienced doctor, far from a high complexity center. Today, the universal EMR is very uncommon. Even when broad-band Internet connections are widely available in most cities, most patients do not have access to their medical records. However, let ‘s assume that this patient has …
Working in the intersection of Medicine and Internet
I conceive the near future of medical care as a connected, distributed space where only a few persons have direct contact with the patient, and a number of consultants examine the relevant data and make recommendations. The eHealth paradigm will make medicine ultra-specialized, a bit de-personalized, fast and cheap. The current e-business models are taking …
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