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The applications of telemedicine are extremely diverse. They can be categorised as follows: teleconsulting, telemonitoring, centralised networked training as well as continuing and further education, and information systems. At the heart of telemedicine is, of course, the improvement of patient care, including care in decentralized parts of the health system. Expertise and therefore quality should be brought into the medical care system across the board by medical centers using technical aids. Particularly in rural areas, this increases a patient’s chances of being able to be treated at home, even in the presence of complications or relatively rare medical conditions. Modern information and communication technologies also allow medical establishments or groups of establishments to manage their resources more efficiently. In this paper are presented many ongoing telemedicine projects at the University of Regensburg that demonstrate that beneficial aspects of telemedicine result not only in verifiable improvements in quality of care but also in substantial savings.
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