A new telemedicine framework handling the emergency room overload

Abstract

Nowadays, the rate of people incoming to the emergency room pointing a health problem is steadily increased. This paper introduces a new telemedicine framework that addresses this problem. It allows medical experts to estimate the real health condition of conditional (c-) patients, and then consult them to visit a hospital or not. This framework combines elements such as an expanded electronic medical record enriched with real time acquired context data as well as several actor's profiles. The framework's concept has taken into consideration the medical practice followed by the experts while addressing patients suffering from certain disorders.