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Development of medicine has brought about the need for high specialization in health care. Despite increasing number of devices used to perform diagnostic tests, a small number of top-class specialists limits the availability of medical services, and sometimes it is necessary to consults test results with the medical specialists in order to proceed with further treatment. Telemedicine enables broad access to medical consultants. It also enables remote care of a patient and identification of health threats when immediate medical intervention is necessary. The above mentioned applications were taken into account in the project.

Although telemedicine is one of the newest fields of medicine, its development is extremely fast - as there are some undeniable economic, technical and ethical reasons which persuade the medical environment to support its development. Telemedicine means optimization of the costs of health care and enables all the patients, even those from small towns, to be diagnosed by a top-class specialist - as this is not always ensured by traditional medical services. The project to establish a Telemedicine Center at the Institute of Cardiology complies with a global tendency for a development of telemedicine and closer co-operation between entities on the medical market.