DESIGN OF A TELEMEDICINE MODEL

Abstract

Telemedicine refers to the use of information and communication technology to assist with medical information and services by the transmission of images, voice and other data over large distances. Recently, telemedicine has become remarkably important, due to increased deployment and development of digital technologies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mandatory social distancing and the lack of effective treatments have made telemedicine the safest interactive system between patients, both infected and uninfected, and clinicians. A few potential evidence-based scenarios for the application of telemedicine have been hypothesized. In most under-developing countries like Nigeria, there are large numbers of patients in the rural areas that need specific healthcare support. Due to shortages of medical experts, hospitals coupled with geographic isolation and the current pandemic it has become a challenge in accessing healthcare services. Thus this project work decided to develop an interactive telemedicine model that was designed to provide tools for overcoming the unequal distribution of medical experts, establishing meaningful consultations between the rural health workers and specialists located in larger medical centers. This system was implemented using Web server with apache support. In recognition of the confidentiality of data source library for data encryption and role-based authentication was used