JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-requisites

Nil

UNIT - I

History of telemedicine: Block diagram of telemedicine system, Definition of telemedicine, Tele health, Telecare, organs of telemedicine, scope, Benefits, and limitations of telemedicine. Type of information; Audio, Video, Still images, Text and data, fax, type of communications and network, PSTN, POTS, ANT, ISDN, Internet, Air/ wireless communications: GSM satellite, and Micro wave. Different Modulation techniques. Types of antennas depending on requirements, Integration, and operational issues: - system integration, store –and - forward operation, Real-time Telemedicine.

UNIT - II

Data Exchange: Network Configuration, circuit and packet switching, H. 320 series (Video phone based ISBN) T. 120, H.324 (Video phone based PSTN). Video Conferencing. Data Security and Standards: Encryption, Cryptography, Mechanisms of encryption, phases of Ecryption. Protocols: TCP/IP, ISO-OSI, Standards to followed DICOM, HL7.

UNIT - III

Ethical and legal aspects of Telemedicine: Confidentiality, and the law, patient rights and consent, access to medical Records, Consent treatment, jurisdictional Issues, Intellectual property rights.

UNIT - IV

Tele radiology: Definition, Basic parts of Tele-radiology system: Image Acquisition system Display system, Communication network, Interpretation section. Tele pathology: multimedia databases, color images of sufficient resolution: Dynamic range, spatial resolution, compression methods, Interactive control of color, controlled sampling security and confidentiality tools.

UNIT - V

And Tele-Cardiology: Tele-Oncology, Tele-Surgery. Applications of Tele-Surgery

TEXTBOOKS:

• 1. Olga (EDT) Ferrer – Roca, M.Sosa (EDT) Iudicissa Hand book of Telemedicine IOS press 2002
• 2. A.C. Norris, Essentials of Telemedicine and Telecare John Sons & Ltd, 2002 R16 B.TECH BIOMEDICAL ENGG.