Tele-medicine applications of an ISDN-based Tele-Working platform

Tele-medicine sub-services backed up by a novel, open-architecture Tele-Working platform, are evaluated. This multimedia platform, developed over the Hellenic integrated services digital network (ISDN), is based on user terminals (personal computers), networking apparatus, and a central database. The developed product equips the Hellenic PTT Organization (OTE) with a ready-to-be applied novel service that would supply future subscribers (MDs) the means to remotely collaborate in real time, exchange data on- and off-line, enhance their diagnoses, electronically fix, accept, or modify patient visits, 'build' virtual rooms to meet, etc. The platform, especially focused to implement a tele-medicine system, was tested for a period of over nine (9) months through a network of twenty-two (22) nodes situated in remote counties of Hellas.