Telemedicine is aimed on brining health care to a totally new level. Telemedicine can, for example, make it unnecessary for a patient from a district hospital to come to the region center just to get a consultation of a qualified specialist. Instaed of that it is now possible to gather consulting specialists a hundred miles from patient, to establish the correct diagnosis based on the transmitted findings and to advise the proper treatment. Telemedicine is helpful for doctors and scientists as well. With the help of modern technologies specialists can listen to lectures? prepared in world scientific centers, doctors from the district hospitals can share experience with specialists from the regional centers.
Telemedicine helps to effectively manage limited funds, for example emergency consultation can make airplane flight to the region unnecessary, and this is economy.
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