Computer system of telemedical services for family doctor's practices

This paper shows the current state of research and development over the telemedical services system for family doctor's practices. The introduction of this telemedical system should result in improvement in accessibility to medical services for the patient and to actual medical information, publications and up-to-date consultations for the physician, regardless of the distance from physician's clinic to the consultation center. This system should reduce the total costs of basic medical services. The system consists of two autonomous subsystems, that work in two arrangements: patient ↔ family doctor's practice and family doctor's practice ↔ information & consultation center. The remote medical care system provides vital signs monitoring through telephone line - physician can observe electrocardiogram and oxidation of blood, while the patient is many kilometres away. In case of unstable state of health, this system is able to alert the physician. The teleconsultation system provides a videoconference service with shared multimedia document (audio-video streams, graphic, text, etc.).