Title page -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Handbook of Telemedicine Biographical Profiles of Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: History of Telemedicine -- Chapter 2: Minimal Technical Requirements -- Chapter 3: Main Telemedicine Applications -- Chapter 4: Basic Knowledge on Multimedia Data Exchange -- Chapter 5: Telemedicine Quality Control and Assurance -- Chapter 6: Internet in Telemedicine -- Chapter 7: Distant Training, Teleworking and Teleteaching -- Chapter 8: Data Security and Privacy -- Chapter 9: Liability and Legal Aspects -- Chapter 10: Economics and Strategic Planning -- Chapter 11: Social Aspects of Technology Transfer -- Chapter 12: Emerging Issues -- Annex I: Standardisation Bodies -- Annex II: Most Common Statistical Evaluations -- Annex III: List of New Terms -- Annex IV: Colour Theory -- Annex V: Networking Schemes -- Annex VI: TCP/IP Functioning -- Annex VII: Questionnaire on Telemedicine -- Annex VIII: Electronic Transactions. Levels of Protection -- Annex IX: Perception Diagram -- Annex X: Image Formats -- Annex XI: A Bit of Maths and Computers -- Annex XII: Broadcast Multimedia Communications -- Annex XIII: Letter of Consent -- Subject Index -- Author Index