Abstract:“Telemedicine” is the product of high advanced computer communication technology and medical engineering technology. Coming into network-information era, the development of networked multimedia makes it possible to study and implement the remote medical system. The authors proposed and realized the first complete distributed and open model of remote medical system in China. This paper is mainly based on the work in Shanghai Medical University. And in this paper, the authors described some important technical details and some special features of this model. Also in this paper, the authors make some prospects of the use of remote medical system in China.