By Hazel Pacturan
University of the Philippines Cebu
seeks to link its whole system through Telemedicine.
Telemedicine is the
communication system combined with 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. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency
situations.
Telemedicine had its first session last September 19, 2013 with the some
hospitals here in Cebu City as a test run to see if it is already capable to conduct one. It gained
positive feedbacks from the doctors. Ms. Sandra Famador, CSU head said that
telemedicine will benefit the system since it can save traveling time for the
meeting.
Telemedicine
is not limited to the medical setting. University of the Philippines Cebu is
planning to introduce this communication system to link the entire system
through video conferencing, and to give a solution to distant communication
problems.
The facility
is video conferencing equipment and an
audio-video capable. The use of a public IP will create the connection between
two parties: two groups of people talking to each other through video
conference. This will benefit students of the UP Cebu since telemedicine enables a
large number of people to join the communication at a same time.
The Computing Services Unit (CSU) funded by Electronic UP (EUP) is assigned
for this project.
“There are still vibrations and
feedbacks so I had to go from one room to
another,” said Ms. Famador Vibrations are caused by the noise created by the
room itself. She also added that there
is already room intended for the telemedicine but it will still require big
amount of money to renovate it. “I expect that this new facility will be able to cure to the problems
regarding communicating from a distance. I hope the students will be able to
benefit from it,” said Brille Camposano, UP Cebu student.
Due to room
problems, there is still no exact date as to when the telemedicine facility
will open in UP Cebu.
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