The Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2010, 10-16 February 2010, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2009, February 1-7, 2009, Cancun, Mexico

The Fourth International Conference on Digital Society, ICDS 2010, 10.16 February 2010, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

Opportunities of Telemedicine for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Today telemedicine, or eHealth, is an important tool in everyday medical life. In all areas, from the preclinical to aftercare, significant improvements in communication structures have been seen in various eHealth options, which have had significant, positive effects on the quality of patient care in orthopedics and trauma surgery. Initially, there were several isolated solutions and many smal...

Tile-Ippokratis: The Experience of an Ehealth Platform for the Provision of Health Care Services in the Island of Chios and Cyprus

Tile-Ippokratis proposed an integrated platform for the provision of low-cost ehealth services to citizens in southeast Mediterranean area (Island of Chios and Cyprus). The aim of the paper is to present the architecture, the design, and the evaluation results of this platform. The platform based on already evaluated state-of-the-art mobile ehealth systems and using wireless and terrestrial tel...

Health informatics meets eHealth.

Health informatics develops methods and tools that should, when applied to health care, contribute to a high-quality, efficient care of individuals and populations [1]. The translation of health informatics research into practice can be seen as a “continuum” from IT development to healthcare problem solving [2], starting with developing and validating early solutions (tools, algorithms, technol...