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Matching Requirements of (Tele)Medicine with Properties of ICT

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are becoming commodity goods. Mass production, standardization, variety of models, products and solutions as well as simplification of usage increasingly lead to "LEGOization" of ICT. The major danger of it is believing in illusion that technology is all-mighty and forgetting about it's actual properties and side effects. Further, assuming that if usage is simple than the design of ICT systems must be as well and that anyone can do it. ICT "LEGOs" seem so easy to use and combine, thus the need for education of users is neglected and the role of ICT professionals marginalized. The consequences are severe: loss or damage of patient data, data security problems, high cost of deployment, use, ownership and maintenance all resulting in the major failure: missing the main objective and failure of the system as a whole. This paper will briefly identify what technology offers, what (tele)medicine requires and how to match the two. It will take into account the need of all users (patients, citizens, market), medical personnel and systems (financial, public health, policy), and all sorts of activities and needs: communication among all participants, medical data acquisition, storage, retrieval and exchange as well as data processing.

telemedicine ; bandwidth ; multimedia ; compression ; lossy ; lossless ; straming ; medical archives ; media on demand ; wearable devices ; implanted devices ; mobile users

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