Image Computing Systems Laboratory

Introduction

A major challenge that patients face in health care today is the lack of access to their complete health information. Ideally, patients will have a comprehensive and updated version of their health information, which can be made available to any provider that they wish to see. As individuals move, travel, switch health insurance carriers and get their care from different providers, their medical records are distributed across multiple sites where they have received care. These records are generally not exchanged and updated unless the sites are part of a network of providers that share common information systems. Past medical records are an important input in clinical decision-making, and without the consolidation of all relevant medical information, there is a substantial risk of medical errors, delays in diagnosis, and inefficient treatment.

Another major challenge in healthcare delivery today is efficiently coordinating

ICSL E-Medicine Project

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Introduction Traditionally, telemedicine systems have been designed to improve access to care by allowing physicians to consult a specialist about a case without sending the patient to another location, which may be difficult or time-consuming to reach. The cost of the equipment and network bandwidth needed for this consultation has restricted telemedicine use to contact between physicians instead of between patients and physicians. Recently, however, the wide availability of Internet connectivity and client and server software for e-mail, world wide web, and conferencing has made low-cost telemedicine applications feasible. With the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, we have developed a web-based system, called E-Medicine, for asynchronous multimedia messaging between shoulder replacement surgery patients at home and their surgeons. A web browser plug-in Distributed Diagnosis and Healthcare Read more College of Engineering | School of Medicine | University of Washington | Contact Us | Members login User login Username: * Password: * Request new password New Publications Ultrasound spatial compounding via registration of 2D slices into 3D volume Performance monitoring and tuning for a single-chip multiprocessor digital signal processor Technology transfer D<inf>2</inf>H<inf>2</inf>and Telemedicine Systems Search