In these places, the platforms are interconnected in a star topology through a FORE 200 BX LAN switch. The system will be evaluated within the daily routine of the hospitals by an expert panel made up of a large number of medical specialists involved in the project. Each trial will undertake objective and subjective evaluations which will be collected via a questionnaire. Results will be analysed and processed to produce a report including all valuable information and experience obtained during the execution of the trials. These trials will cover applications of remote diagnosis, remote consultation and remote medical training.
Remote diagnosis implies a doctor making a primary diagnosis at a remote site from the patient.
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.