Contributions to the history of Telemedicine of the TICs

The first use of tests of communications technologies applied to medicine is almost as old as the invention of the telephone. Within a very short time, the telephone was shown as an essential element to ask or exchange information of medical content between health professionals. The spectacular development of broadcasting in the first quarter of the 20
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century brought about the interest to apply the radio communications in medicine. The development of telemedicine on a world level has not been uniform, with different introduction and implementation depending on various health services. The clinical specialty most benefited by Telemedicine is radiology, followed by cardiology, dermatology, psychiatry, house attention, pathology and oncology. Nowadays, a large increase of the communications systems for house attention, especially in the care of elderly and chronic patients has taken place.