Gil-López P., et al.
CONCLUSION
The Spanish Military Telemedicine System is pioneer in this
field in Spain. Today it works 24/7 to give remote health support
to military personnel deployed in Operations and remote or diffi-cult
to access locations. The strength of the system is the availability
of all medical/ surgical specialists at the Central Defense Hospital
«Gómez Ulla» in Madrid to give remote health support based on
being the Higher Health Support Echelon to Operations or Role
4. In addition to e-consultation and videoconference teleconsulta-tion,
it has other capabilities (transmission of vitals, ECG, images
of otoscopy, ophthalmoscopy, dermatoscopy, tele-ultrasound and
surgical tele-mentoring, all of them synchronous/ in real time).
The future of the system will include improved equipment
(portable telemedicine devices, augmented reality glasses, sen-
sors/ wearables) that will move Military Telemedicine to the point
of injury, broaden its use (in evacuation platforms, tele-Micros-
copy, tele-Endoscopy, etc) and integration with Health Informa-tion
Systems and Electronic Health Records for more complete
remote support in diagnosis and treatment.
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