Telemedicine: A Part of Medical Team
T he convergence of information and communication technologies (ICT) for improving health system through telemedicine addresses both changes in the access of healthcare information and services as well as wider dissemination of healthcare related skills and specialist expertise into community, into home and ultimately the individuals. The use of the internet and high-tech communications in health care has led to new approaches to medical treatment and to challenging legal questions. The health care providers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, insurers and their legal counsels are exchanging medical information through web-portal access using telemedicine. The application of telemedicine in health system improvement can be classified as the use of e-health in the provision of health services at a distance (tele-health), management of clinical and administrative information (health informatics), and sharing information with health care providers, patients, and communities (e-...