Rafael Magdalena⁽¹⁾, Javier Calpe Maravilla⁽²⁾, Juan Guerrero⁽³⁾, Antonio J. Serrano López⁽⁴⁾, José David Martín Guerrero^(5)
(1)Electronic Engineering Dpt.. University of Valencia - Burjasot. Spain
⁽²⁾dpto Ingeniería electronica. Facultad de Fisicas - Burjassot/Valencia. Spain
⁽³⁾Departamento de Electrónica. Universidad de Valencia - Burjassot. Spain
⁽⁴⁾Dpto. Electrónica. Universidad de Valencia - Burjasot. Spain
⁽⁵⁾G.P.D.S. Departament d´Enginyeria Electrònica. Universitat de València - Burjassot. Spain

	[New Technology]	[Cardiolovascular Diseases]	[Health Informatics]

INTRODUCTION

Telemedicine is not a new and in fashion concept. Physicians have been using telephone and fax as usual tools at work, since they appeared in our lives. But nowadays new technologies are arising and seizing unexpected technological areas. Prophets in last half century were not able to foresee the star of the future: Internet, or in few words, world computer networks. Data and multimedia transmission are common today, nearly for every place at developed countries. Medicine is a discipline slow in adapting the new offers in telecommunications and computers, in spite of its trust on new technological advances in other areas, like electronics.

Telemedicine can be defined in several ways. One of these is the next one: "Telemedicine is the research, inspection and patient managing and the patient and physician training, regardless of patient or training subject location⁽¹⁾. The use of recent telecommunication and information technology advances is necessary to bring medical care independently of the patient location. So one of the benefits of telemedicine has been to avoid patients or physicians to travel.

This application relies on telemedicine concepts and present existent communication networks. NEMESIS is the Spanish acronym of New Electrocardiographic MEdical Station with Information Systems. Medical Station is highly and strictly modular, which implies that can be easily upgraded or fitted to real requirements and can be smoothly adapted to other medical areas: other physicians of different subjects can benefit of the Station just adding a specific proprietary module, or attaching commercial modules as other applications´ modules.

The developed application implements a Cardiological Medical Station that gathers the tools and utilities useful for cardiologist on their usual work. This Station is a program that can be installed on nearly every computer. It just will need additional hardware on particular cases, like video cameras or acquisition boards, all of them low-cost components. From this computer, physicians will have specific cardiological tools and generic telemedicine tools

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	[New Technology]	[Cardiolovascular Diseases]	[Health Informatics]

Rafael Magdalena, Javier Calpe Maravilla, Juan Guerrero, Antonio J. Serrano López, José David Martín Guerrero
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