Cultures of The Online World

Telemedicine Ghost Links

PACS

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems. A PACS offers: (a) picture     viewing at diagnostic, reporting, consultation and remote workstations, (b)     archiving on magnetic or optical media using short or long-term storage     devices, (c) communications using local or wide area netwroks or public     communications services, and (d) systems that include modality interfaces     and gateways to healthcare facility and departmental information systems     offering one integrated system to the user. [Source: NEMA]

PACSpage: PACS / Telemedicine Resource page.Link

Time for a Change

We have reached a point where medical care needs to go through a rethink in this country.  Health care in America has become so expensive, the costs so inflated by having to compensate for the uninsured that the idea of low cost medical care over the Internet has really started to gain some traction.

Unfortunately, the regulatory bodies that control the legal access to this care have yet to catch up to the changes in the Internet as technology. More and more people as well as doctor's themselves are using the information resources that the Internet has become.  Pseudo Science in it's many forms still exists on the Web, but due to the overwhelming involvement of so many online communities, this type of dis-information is being drowned out by true science and respected opinion.