There are multiple issues involved in the development of a
conventional telemedicine system as following:
• First of all there is need of infrastructure that is based
on hardware, software and connectivity mechanism of
multiple nodes (patient and doctor).
• A dispenser who is enough expert to record patient’s
medical data such as X-rays, bio signals (such as
blood pressure, body temperature, weight, pulse rate,
blood sugar level, etc), blood test, etc and prepare a
patient’s symptoms report.
• Typical medical equipment is required at the patient
end where a dispenser (literate person) can transmit
patient’s information to the medical expert (if
required).
• A natural language processing system that can
understand and analyze input patient report and extract
symptoms and signs.
• A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is required
that can diagnose a disease by reading symptoms (and
signs) of disease and prescribe appropriate medication.
• There are important issues like accurate information
exchange, security, transmission bandwidth, protocols,
data sets etc.