TY - GEN
T1 - Patent issue on telemedicine
AU - Tomioka, Yasumitsu
AU - Harada, Shinya
AU - Terada, Akira
AU - Nakajima, Isao
AU - Juzoji, Hiroshi
AU - Sadiq, Muhammad Athar
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper intends to specifically verify what patent issues may be encountered in the telemedicine. Where "telemedicine" is defined as "the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants", the technologies are concerned, when discussing the "telemedicine", and we cannot avoid thinking about "patent" that serves to protect the "technologies" as rights. This patent issues acts as a hindrance factor against spreading and promoting the telemedicine. To solve this hindrance factor, i.e. the patent issues, and for the purpose of spreading and promoting the telemedicine so that the benefit of medicine may reach everybody, including the people living in the developing countries, to improve the health of people all over the world, it seems extremely important to recognize the presence of "patent issues" in the field of "telemedicine".
AB - This paper intends to specifically verify what patent issues may be encountered in the telemedicine. Where "telemedicine" is defined as "the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants", the technologies are concerned, when discussing the "telemedicine", and we cannot avoid thinking about "patent" that serves to protect the "technologies" as rights. This patent issues acts as a hindrance factor against spreading and promoting the telemedicine. To solve this hindrance factor, i.e. the patent issues, and for the purpose of spreading and promoting the telemedicine so that the benefit of medicine may reach everybody, including the people living in the developing countries, to improve the health of people all over the world, it seems extremely important to recognize the presence of "patent issues" in the field of "telemedicine".
KW - Developing countries
KW - Patent issues
KW - Technologies patent right
KW - Telemedicine
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U2 - 10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381615
DO - 10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381615
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34748858685
SN - 142440942X
SN - 9781424409426
T3 - HEALTHCOM 2007: Ubiquitous Health in Aging Societies - 2007 9th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services
SP - 109
EP - 116
BT - HEALTHCOM 2007
T2 - HEALTHCOM 2007: Ubiquitous Health in Aging Societies - 2007 9th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services
Y2 - 19 June 2007 through 22 June 2007
ER -