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Virtual Medical Care Could Save Patient Time, Nursing Resources

by Sreeraman on May 25, 2008 at 2:23 PM News on IT in Healthcare

A team of Japanese experts says that the time has come when researchers should start working on a virtual medical care system that might support nursing staff, care managers and other healthcare workers.

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The research team�including experts from Yamagata University, Yamagata College of Industry and Technology, and Fukuoka Institute of Technology�have revealed that they have already carried out successful field trials with a prototype remote medical care support centre they have developed.

Akio Koyama of Yamagata University revealed that the prototype could address some of important socio-economic problems like providing quality medical care for all citizens, even including the residents of small towns and rural areas.

The researchers pointed out that access to sophisticated healthcare has been mainly restricted to people in major conurbations to date, and those in areas are usually required to seek healthcare some distance from their homes.

"These trips can require hours of travel time for a relatively short examination, and thus are neither convenient nor an efficient use of the patient's time," says the team.

Even if healthcare workers with specialist knowledge have to travel to such remote areas, it would still not solve the problem at all levels, the team adds.

According to the researchers, the optimum solution could be to provide medical consultancy through information and communications technology.

They say that their remote system helps establish contact between a patient and healthcare worker through video conferencing, and allows the uploading of medical care data to a database.

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