Telemedicine or eHealth today are important tools of everyday medical life. In all areas – from the preclinic, clinic to aftercare – significant improvements in communication structures have been noticed through various eHealth options, which have significant positive effects on the quality of patient care in orthopedics and trauma surgery.
At the beginning, there were several isolated solutions and many small individual projects, but there was a lack of interdisciplinary and comprehensive systems in all health care fields. The German Trauma Society (DGU) took the lead together with AUC and paved the way for a modulated, comprehensive, interface-compatible teleradiology system. Nevertheless, there are still deficits across all sectors, which in the future will have to be optimized by eHealth methods and systems. Overall, there is an effort towards patient-centered solutions (mature patient).