Gil-López P., et al.
Portable Telemedicine Devices: Today, the technology per-mits
using portable equipment to practice telemedicine with all
the capabilities mentioned above. They are small backpacks or
suitcases that include all the electro-medical devices needed to
obtain images or records from the patient and a CIS component
able to send them to the hospital in real time. As far as we know,
there are not many on the market:
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• QOREHEALTH-SCHILLER Portable Solution (tactical
backpacks, rugged portable cases and dufflebags)
• TEMPUS PRO (PHILIPS).
• SAFETRIAGE PRO (RDT)
We have tested two: QOREHEALTH-SCHILLER (QHS)
Portable Solution in tactical exercises with Spanish Signal Bat-talion
Regimiento de Transmisiones n.1 and TEMPUS PRO
(TP) from the Antarctica Spanish Base connected to our hospi-tal,
Spanish Role 4. (Fig. 8)
The conclusions of these preliminary tests are:
• Both models allow us to practice telemedicine in tactical
situations
• QHS Portable Solution needs a greater bandwidth while
the TP is able to work in a limited scenario of 32-64 Kbps
which makes it really efficient considering the austere com-bat
environment in which this equipment is going to be
used.
• Tempus Pro is less versatile, as it works in the mentioned
32-64 Kbps fixed bandwidth scenario, while QH can work
in multiple telecommunications scenarios.
• QHS is able to send images from several devices simultane-ously,
can send large files and has the capability to chat in
degraded link conditions. The Tempus Pro can only send
one image at a time, so if you carry out a medical test, it
stops the communication and only restarts when the test
is complete and can be sent. Also, TP can only send small
files (QS can send much bigger ones) and you do not have
a chat capability (QS has), so if the link malfunctions only
audio is available for teleconsultations.
Augmented Reality Glasses: These ultra-portable devices
used in Telemedicine allow remote military health care person-
Figure 7. E-Safe Tag wearables.
Figure 8. Portable telemedicine devices. A) Available at: Qorhealth-Schiller: Qorehealth Product Catalog 2020 (not published). B)
TEMPUS PRO: https://www.philips.co.uk/healthcare/product/HC989706000051/tempus-pro-rugged-advanced-monitor.
Figure 9. Augmented reality glasses. A) Available at: https://www.androidcentral.com/epson-moverio-bt-200-smart-glasses-now-avai-
lable. B) Available at: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/mobile/news/sony-smarteyeglass. c) Available at: https://blog.capterra.
com/3-things-field-service-can-teach-any-mobile-workforce/