Telemedicine and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Telemedicine (tèle, from the gr. far) is understood as a mode of healthcare service delivery and consists of the transmission of medical and healthcare information useful to supplement traditional healthcare provision, increasing its effectiveness and efficiency.

Telemedicine can be used in the form of Televisit, teleconsultation, Medical Teleconsultation, telehealth telemonitoring and telerehabilitation.

The advantages it offers are numerous and by now well known: equity of access to care, allowing rural communities far from treatment centres to be reached; continuity of care, especially for patients with chronic diseases.

The use of Telemedicine in these healthcare pathways makes it possible to optimize the whole social-health management in the following aspects:

• Increased intensity of care with improved quality of life for patients.

• Real-time involvement of expert nurses and medical specialists by the patient and caregivers.

• Future transfer of activities to self-care and task shifting, which reduce and optimize professionals’ work time.

Telemedicine and artificial intelligence find their meeting point in the home setting, where the healthcare provider, caregiver or the user himself can obtain evidence of wound improvement through integrated systems that can evaluate and transmit images and information.