Node TM
Speaker: Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Christina Hafner
Vision/Mission:
The digitalisation of medicine has advanced in leaps and bounds, and this was accelerated significantly in the Covid phase. Digital methods are the prerequisite for realistic and efficient telemedicine. Clinical subjects with a high diagnostic imaging component are particularly well suited for this and have been involved for some time. Structures required for use in telemedicine include a precise definition of the clinical orientation, an adapted infrastructure and intramural as well as extramural communication partners, e.g. between all doctors, patients, and technological tools that are user-friendly and reliable. In the course of establishing telemedicine services, coding and reimbursement issues also need to be resolved.
Telemedicine is an essential and inevitable development path in almost all clinical disciplines. In this context, requirements arise that are superordinate and not subject-specific, but also major subject-internal expansions and restructurings. The telemedicine node represents an interdisciplinary network within the framework of the MIC in order to coordinate common potentials and to make them widely available. The node brings together a large spectrum of participating disciplines, especially those that have already implemented telemedical orientations.