WIRELESS TELEMEDICINE AS HEART OF E – MEDICINE

Wireless telemedicine is rather a new emerging area.. The new wireless broadband technologies enabled creation of telemedicine services previously only possible via cable connections. Advanced medical services can be provided to rural areas or areas stricken with disasters otherwise unreachable by cable connections, very quickly and with fraction of the previous cost. Wireless telemedicine is especially suitable for areas lacking proper cable connections or places where installing cable links is difficult, economically unavailable or simply impossible. For instance, in cases of natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunami, installing WiMAX wireless links is the only possible way to establish communication and provide medical service. This technology consists of implementing several wireless telemedicine components of an integrated system for emedicine. WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) plays a predominant role.