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Internet-based medical teleconsultation system

Rapid development of telecommunication networks has made made possible development of telemedicine, and es-pecially on of its segments medical teleconsultation. In this paper we will present system which is designed to pro-vide tools for establishing meaningful communication be-tween general practitioner on dislocated areas and special-ists typically located in large medical centers. Technolog-ical approach for implementation of the system is based on the open source solutions. System is implemented on Linux platform. Web server is Apache extended with sup-port for PHP, and mod-SSL, which interfaces Apache with Open-SSL library, for data encryption. Data storage is im-plemented using database management system PostgreSQL. To describe data newly emerging XML (eXtensible Markup Language) standard was used. Transformation of data is achieved using another second-generation Internet technol-ogy - XSL (eXtensbile Style Language). CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is technology which is used for visual rendition of transformed documents. PHP is server side scripting lan-guage which is used to access database and generate XML documents. It is also used to interface Sablotron XSLT pro-cessor. PHP acts as ”glue” to all pieces, and produces web page. System is based on newly-emerging technologies, and it represents a base for providing a higher level of health care.

teleconsultations; internet medical application

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