Internet-based medical teleconsultation system

Rapid development of telecommunication networks has made made possible development of telemedicine, and especially on of its segments medical teleconsultation. In this paper we will present system which is designed to provide tools for establishing meaningful communication between general practitioner on dislocated areas and specialists typically located in large medical centers. Technological approach for implementation of the system is based on the open source solutions. System is implemented on Linux platform. Web server is Apache extended with support for PHP, and mod-SSL, which interfaces Apache with Open-SSL library, for data encryption. Data storage is implemented using database management system PostgreSQL. To describe data newly emerging XML (eXtensible Markup Language) standard was used. Transformation of data is achieved using another second-generation Internet technology - XSL (eXtensbile Style Language). CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is technology which is used for visual rendition of transformed documents. PHP is server side scripting language which is used to access database and generate XML documents. It is also used to interface Sablotron XSLT processor. PHP acts as "glue" to all pieces, and produces web page. System is based on newly-emerging technologies, and it represents a base for providing a higher level of health care.