Medical images and related patient information are sent to the doctor at the remote site with no significant loss of image quality. Remote training allows the transmission of medical educational material from a teaching site to a remote audience, with a certain degree of co-operative capabilities to support interactive lessons. The remote consultation application is the most demanded for the interconnection of specialised medical centres. This application allows interactive sharing of images and patient information between a doctor, who has made a primary diagnosis of the patient, and a remote specialist who is asked for a second opinion. During each of the trial sessions, two sites will be interconnected, regardless of which scenario they belong to.
Image quality is considered very good for diagnostic purposes.
A major requirement for the acceptance of telemedicine is its integration with existing medical equipment. Human interaction with the new technologies is vital. Users must be taken into account as early as possible in the design stages and need to be adequately trained in the use of the various systems. Failure to do so will most likely lead to underachievement. The market and the network equipment used are very heterogeneous.