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telemedicine
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("long distance" medicine) Using a videoconferencing link to a large medical center in order that rural health care facilities can perform diagnosis and treatment. A specialist can monitor the patient remotely taking cues from the general practitioner or nurse who is actually examining the patient. A patient's blood can be placed under a microscope in the remote facility and transmitted for examination. See telesurgery and robotic surgery.

Telemedicine's "FRED"
VTEL's FRED (Friendly Rollabout Engineered for Doctors) is a medical conferencing unit specially designed for telemedicine. It brings qualified specialists to remote clinics and allows doctors to collaborate around the world. The handheld camera (right) is used to shoot close ups. (Image courtesy of VTEL Corporation.)
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These projects grew out of a need to better understand the feasibility of remote telemedical consultations in prisons and to estimate the financial impact of implementing telemedicine in the prison system.
The use of telemedicine in correctional facilities by Wright, Lynda Brown / Academic Exchange Quarterly
states: "Much of our telemedical clinical activity could be translated to the Internet," based on the VA's substantial telemedicine experiments in cross-country pathology and remote medical consultation.
The digital transformation of health care. (Health Care Meets ... by Coile, Russell C., Jr. / Physician Executive
To locate telemedical clinics, contact the Telemedicine Research Center at http://tie.
Rural healthcare initiatives in spinal cord injury by Clay, Daniel L. / American Rehabilitation
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