Internet Medicine

Submitted By:

Amit Verma

Hardeep Mehta

Mrinalini Dar

Jing Zhiai

Internet Medicine

Introduction:

It is an online hospital. Here patients can log on and consult doctors from all over the world. The online hospital would be accessible from the convenience of the patients' home or the local clinic of another doctor. The system would help in the exchange of data required to provide immediate health care to the patients anywhere in the world. The information exchanged would include:

a) Still images from x-rays and slides.

b) Text of the history and physical examination of the patient.

c) Immediate consultation from the doctor; probable diagnosis.

Our system would allow the patient to log on to the system and choose a consultant from the list provided. The patient can submit his symptoms that would be added to a database that maintains the patients' history. The consultant chosen by the patient can log on to the system as well, and access the patient's history and symptoms. The doctor can also provide probable diagnosis to the patient. Either this can be done at separate times, or the patient and the doctor can enter a private room (online chat room) and discuss the symptoms and diagnosis. During the chat or otherwise, the patient and the doctor can exchange still images of x-rays, typed reports of various medical tests, etc. The users can also post their concerns and questions online, which they are usually reluctant to ask.

This system provides the patients with worldwide accessibility to doctors from all over the world. It also helps the patients to get a second opinion from the best doctors available in the specific field. This new technology if widely followed could prove to be a turning point in medical history and patient-doctor relationships.