Describe the underlying technology of telemedicine and discuss three examples of its application.

Telemedicine is defined as a form of medical application/technology that uses computers and telecommunication equipment to bring about medical care at a distance. Telemedicine incorporates many subspecialties of medicine including radiology, pathology, oncology, ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, dermatology, and psychiatry. Telemedicine remains to expand among the prison population; progressively used in prisons. It can also melodramatically reduce the time a patient must wait and the distance a patient must travel. It brings in more satisfaction at the comfort of patient’s house. Disaster management utilizes diverse technologies to accomplish a complex set of tasks. Despite a decade of experience, few published reports have reviewed application of telemedicine (clinical care at a distance enabled by wire) in disaster situations. Appropriate new telemedicine applications can improve future disaster medicine consequences, based on lessons learned from a decade of civilian and military disaster telemedicine deployments. Telemedicine is also applicable in pediatrics as a tool of electronic communications technology to provide and support health care for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults when distance separates the practitioner from the patient, parent, guardian, or referring practitioner. Telesurgery is a form of telemedical technique that enables a surgeon to perform surgery tenuously using robotics. All that is required is video-conferencing equipment to enable the surgeon to see what they are doing and a communication link to allow the communication of video to the surgeon and robot commands to the robot (not forgetting the robotic equipment).