Application of telemedicine in urology surgery / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Telemedicine is the process of using telecommunications and digital relay to perform, teach, or share medical knowledge, including telementoring, telesurgery and telerobotics. Telemedicine in surgery could not only help to solve the problem of shortage of high-level surgeons, but also eliminate geographical obstacles, relieve economic burden of patients, contribute to the national implementation of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. The history and current situation of telemedicine at home and abroad in the field of urological surgery are reviewed in this article, and future development of telemedicine is prospected.