Dlya territoriy polyarnykh stran, takikh, naprimer, kak Kanada, Norvegiya, Rossiya, Yug Chili, Argentiny i drugikh, okhrana zdorov'ya - eto logisticheskaya sluzhba, napravlennaya na obespechenie vyzhivaniya lyudey v ekstremal'nykh geograficheskikh i klimaticheskikh usloviyakh. Problema meditsinskogo obespecheniya polyarnykh rayonov sostoit v znachimosti faktorov transportnoy nedostupnosti, avtonomnosti poseleniy, osobennosti vliyaniya na cheloveka prirodnykh anomaliy, stress faktorov zamknutykh kollektivov i mnogikh drugikh. Poetomu na etikh territoriyakh prakticheski nevozmozhno, obespechit' polnotsennuyu meditsinskuyu pomoshch'. Ostayetsya variant ispol'zovaniya tekhnologii telemeditsiny, to est' okazaniya neobkhodimoy meditsinskoy pomoshchi metodami distantsionnoy diagnostiki i terapii. No v silu perechislennykh faktorov, pryamoe primenenie izvestnykh instrumentov telemeditsiny v Zapolyar'e, nevozmozhno. Poetomu v period s 1998 po 2008 gody v khode ryada rossiyskikh polyarnykh ekspeditsiy byli provedeny issledovaniya v interesakh sozdaniya telemeditsinskoy sistemy, sposobnoy funktsionirovat' v Arktike i Antarktike. Monografiya predstavlyaet interes inzheneram, vracham i studentam, zanimayushchikhsya resheniem prakticheskikh zadach razrabotki informatsionnykh sistem.