Development Status and Prospect of Remote Diagnosis and Treatment of Echocardiography Worldwide

• Published in: Advanced ultrasound in diagnosis and therapy 2020-12, Vol.4 (4), p.303-307
• Main Authors: Luwen, Liu, MS, Shaobo, Duan, MD, Yaqiong, Li, PhD, Ruiqing, Liu, MD, Yuejin, Wu, MS, Lianzhong, Zhang, MD
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: telemedicine|echocardiography|remote sensing technology|remote medicine
• ISSN: 2576-2516
• DOI: 10.37015/AUDT.2020.200047

Telemedicine refers to a discipline in which medical personnel use modern communication technology, electronic technology, and computer technology to realize the remote collection, storage, processing, transmission, and inquiry of various medical information, so as to cross the barriers of time and space and provide medical services to a wider range of people With the rapid development of Internet technology, telemedicine is being used more widely in case consultation, imaging, ECG and pathology. The demand for remote echocardiography is increasingly strong and its potential applications becoming more extensive, however, the development of remote ultrasound imaging, especially remote echocardiography, is lagging behind due to the limitation of dynamic image codec, immature multi-channel information synchronization technology, and slow network transmission speeds. This article reviews the development status and application prospects of remote diagnosis and treatment of echocardiography at home and abroad.