If we have to point out a moment of beginning of the use of the tool as such, we must go back to 1959 and direct our gaze to the University of Nebraska, in its School of Medicine, where there is the first document that speaks of visual telecommunication in health care, specifically, in the specialty of psychiatry

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From then until now, encompassed in the information society, development has been impressive in terms of technological elements. However, if we have to mark a historical milestone, it is the emergence of the Internet as a communication tool, which has exponentially increased the applications of telemedicine for all parts of healthcare (professional patients and the system). We will also see that one of the development priorities of the countries is to increase the number of inhabitants who use the Internet and information communication systems.