Development of Medical Remote Conference Networking System —Trial in a Dentistry Domain—

Abstract

 A telemedicine system to enable collaboration through the Internet among doctors or dentists was developed. This new developed Medical Remote Conference Networking System was named M-Net. M-Net consists of Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP and Java. It functions as real-time collaboration system with images.

 The purpose of this study was its trail use in the dental field.

 The results showed that this system was able to be performed without huge investment to a hard side for M-Net users due to using WWW browser software through the Internet.

 It is concluded that M-Net is very useful in the dental field. M-Net in the dental field will be more improved by the user’s opinion and then M-Net in the medical field will be trialed.