Telemedicine combines medicine, telecommunications and information technology to deliver improved healthcare from a distance. As technology develops and telecommunication costs reduce, the future of telemedicine will expand considerably over the next few years.

Telemedicine supports a variety of clinical and managerial activities:

• “Live” videoconferencing between patient and doctor
• Electronic transfer of radiological or pathological images
• Remote patient monitoring
• Enhance medical education

Benefits to be gained by the use of telemedicine include:

• Improved access to medical care
• Reduction in waiting lists
• Reducing the need for patients to visit hospital
• Easier access to leading clinical specialists for primary or secondary opinion
• Increase in “technician led activities” supervised remotely
• Increased productivity

The Trust has appointed a telemedicine manager to co-ordinate a variety of initiatives from the development of telemedicine under the guidance of the Medical Director to the identification of opportunities for these techniques and technologies.

Post Graduate Education

The use of videoconferencing within the post graduate medical education field is now an established tool which GSTT is encompassing to expand this business sector

For further information contact Eddie Lovat

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