Campus medicus
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Campus Medicus is a content management system
Content management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...

 for telemedicine
Telemedicine
Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities...

 use. It has three main applications.

Clinical decision support

It allows doctors (surgeon
Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

s, pathologists, cytologists, radiologists etc.) to communicate all over the world. Campus Medicus can be used for diagnostic consultations. Images can even be sent by email to that platform. Using the mobile health function of Campus Medicus means, doctors can send images and text and receive diagnosis via a mobile phone. Doctors can discuss about a tumour or other diseases.

Campus Medicus allows the doctors to have a live discussion with several doctors while they see the stored images or a live image. They can have a videoconference and they can chat at the same time they see the images. A single image or a whole slide image can be viewed. What is required is a camera for macroscopy or microscopy and a computer with internet connection.

Documentation

Campus Medicus can also be used for cancer registry and epidemiology.
Ready-to-use forms are available and forms can be generated easily.
The results may be viewed as a statistic.

Teaching

Ready-to-use lecture notes are available, such as gynaecology,
pathology, cytology, surgery, nursing and others. The videoconference
module allows holding individual lectures for doctors and students all
over the world. The lectures may be held as a live lecture or they can
be stored and reviewed as a video. The written lectures may be printed out as a
book.

Source

Telemedizin in der Mongolei http://www.openpr.de/news/352298/Telemedizin-in-der-Mongolei.html
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