Telemedicine

There have been many developments in the field of medicine over the past 100 years . While the cure for cancer and AIDS has not yet been discovered , multiple scientific breakthroughs in the field of science and medicine allow for cures that were not even imaginable a century ago . Where during the early 1900s medical calls and personal examinations were necessary to diagnose patients , today , with all the high tech gadgetry that is currently available , a person can be diagnosed in an instant . Pregnancies can be accurately predicted by peeing on a pen

. As the technology began to improve and communication between people became easier , faster and more reliable , it was inevitable that the day would come the Telemedicine would emerge

The practice of Telemedicine can hardly be considered as a new concept Telemedicine is said to be originally known as In Absentia Health Care ' which is a situation wherein the patient and caregiver are at different locations but still communicate by audio and video - or sometimes without any personal contact . Early practices of Telemedicine include the primitive practice by African Villages of sending smoke signals to warn of plague or illness in their village or through two way radios to communicate with the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia . Other recorded practices of Telemedicine occurred in early Europe during the Bubonic plague when information was transmitted via Heliograph . By the time of World War I , radio communication was already established and by the 1930s this was used to transmit information...