Over the years, medicine has evolved in many aspects, one is a great use of new technologies. There are several interrelated concepts, new techniques, which, become difficult to distinguish, such as:
∙ Hardware
∙ Telecommunications
∙ Information technology
∙ Computer
∙ New technologies
In medical terms, all these techniques are covered in general in a specialty known as Medical Informatics. This term is limited, there are included all the new technologies applied to medicine. Today, the technology will allow the interaction distance through the use of conventional telephone lines, the cable networks, Internet, fiber optics, radio frequency systems, satellite and mobile telephony, called the terms of this as telemedicine. This allows:
• Scheduling processes
• Management of resources 
• Interpretation of images
• Systems of education for professionals and lay
• Second opinion • Inter consultation or medical
• home monitoring of patients
• Monitoring of patients hospitalized
• Remote control of monitors
• teleconsultation
• Support procedures performed by paramedics
• Physical Examination
• Surgeries
This list, is in increasing order of complexity in their deployment. Certainly, the physical examination and surgery, take some time to integrate the routine medical, but the first five items on the list are in the phase of rapid deployment. However, for the telemedicine result, you need a specific set of requirements, equipment and connection systems need to be disseminated and available at affordable cost, both as patients and family physicians need to have assimilated a culture of use, which often involves a change in the pattern of traditional processes, legislation and bodies controllers need to clearly establish the rules of use, and business models in use must be established. But the impact of telemedicine in the future is still somewhat uncertain. Potentially, the doctors in some specialties have a large increase in its service capabilities, including those working with images to diagnose or to those who make therapeutic monitoring.
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Great topic! It's incredible to see how technology is evolving. Especially when it's related to medicine.
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