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

Abstract

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.

Remote ultrasound real‐time consultation and quality control system

“…9,10 In recent years, many reports of tele-ultrasound have been widely used in fetal, abdominal, heart, musculoskeletal, superficial organs, and other parts of the body. 11 Tele-ultrasound was found to be both clinically useful and educationally beneficial for remote areas, helping to improve ultrasound quality control, as well as the training and competency enhancement of ultrasound practitioners. 12 Furthermore, the combination of ultrasound and robotics also provides a solution for remote ultrasound.…”