Modern Healthcare October 1, 2018
In 1903, Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven recorded the heart signals of hospital patients roughly a mile away, using the first practical electrocardiogram, which he invented from a string galvanometer and telephone wires.
That fundamental point-to-point connection marked the beginning of telemedicine.
Today, telemedicine—literally “healing at a distance”—is everywhere and has many forms, a reflection of the rapid advances in both medical and communications technology since Einthoven’s time.
Through telemedicine, doctors and other health professionals provide an array of important clinical services—from diagnosis to imaging to surgery to counseling—to patients in remote locations. You can find telemedicine (sometimes referred to as “telehealth” in certain contexts) in hospital operating rooms, in rural community health centers, in school-based clinics, in ambulances, and in...
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