著者
戸塚 清 丸田 祐三
出版者
一般社団法人 日本生体医工学会
雑誌
医用電子と生体工学 (ISSN:00213292)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.9, no.2, pp.144-148, 1971-04-30 (Released:2011-03-09)
参考文献数
8

Data communication, referred to as Computer Communication or Remote Data Processing in Western countries, has enabled acquision of numerous data over a wide range and to send back or switch messages to and fro, through linking of the on-line real-time computer data processing and the simultaneity and extensiveness of telecommunications. In the medical fields, three applicable areas for data communication are conceivable as in the general industrial fields.The first area is the centralized storing of medical information for responding to inquiries from remote terminals. The Swedish public health system is an example of this area. It covers the whole population in Sweden under the countrywide network of medical care and keeps the medical records in the personal files of the mass-storage center, based on the central population register.The second is the data communication system to analyse automatically the biomedical signals and raw data from medical examinations. The Medical System Development Laboratory (MSDL), U. S. Public Health Service (USPHS) has been developing the automatic analysis system of the electrocardiograph and the forced expiratory spirogram connecting computers, telephone lines and remote terminals.The third application is the shared data processing system in which the participating users share a computer system and its resources for economical reason. The Minnesota Blue Cross's shared data processing system is an example of this kind.The expected future application of data communication is the remote diagnostic system with the specialist physicians in the center; it will be based on the development of the computer and communication technologies and progress made in technical methods of combining telephone networks with medical instruments.The availability and extensiveness of data communication in the medical fields are herein presented.