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1Department of Medical Informatics, Medical University, Warszawa. robert.rudowski@amwaw.edu.pl
Unlabelled:
Two types of telemedicine are considered in the paper: pre-recorded and real-time. The advantages and disadvantages of each type are described.The choice of telemedicine type depends on medical speciality. The separate branch of telemedicine--teleprevention of civilization diseases is discussed and examples of relevant WWW services in Poland are given. The own work examples of the Dept. of Medical Informatics, MUW, namely Onco-service of 200 protocols used in hematology and oncology and Cardio.net--a distributed teleinformation system for cardiology, are presented.
In Conclusion:
the barriers of the development of telemedicine in Poland are caused by the organization of health service--Patients Funds using different software, no messaging standards and different reimbursement systems.
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