BACKGROUND Telemedicine appears to be ready for wider adoption. Although existing research evidence is useful, the adoption of routine telemedicine in healthcare systems has been slow. OBJECTIVE We conducted a study to explore the current use of routine telemedicine in Norway, at national, regional, and local levels, to provide objective and up-to-date information and to estimate the potentia...

ABSTRAK Dengan mewabahnya COVID-19 dan menyebar sangat cepat lebih dari 190 negara maka ditetapkan sebagai pandemik oleh WHO. Dalam menghadapi lonjakan kasus penyakit COVID-19, petugas kesehatan sistem pelayanan di seluruh dunia mengadopsi pendekatan pengobatan melalui virtual tanpa pertemuan fisik antara pasien kesehatan. Pelayanan ibu hamil, bersalin, nifas bayi baru lahir masa pandemic disel...

PURPOSE To evaluate teleconsultation's efficacy for hearing aid fitting. METHODS Fifty hearing impaired individuals with ages ranging from 39 to 88 years and mean audiometric thresholds between 30 and 68.75 dBHL participated in this study. Participants were divided into two groups (stratified randomization): control group (n=25), submitted to face-to-face procedures, and experimental group (n...

The latest population-based studies in the medical literature worldwide indicate that acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients still experience prolonged delay to be rescued, which often results in morbidity and mortality. This paper reports from a technological standpoint a teleconsultation and monitoring system named AToMS. This system addresses the problem of prehospital delivery of thromb...

BACKGROUND Recently, a revised telehealth legislation that allows direct doctor to patient teleconsultation was proposed in Korea. However, there have been some debates. This study aimed to examine the attitude of primary care physicians towards telehealth. METHODS A questionnaire asking attitude towards telehealth and revised telehealth legislation was self-administered to 1,988 registered m...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is crucial for the acceptance, use, and adherence to recommendations from teleconsultations regarding health care requests and triage services. OBJECTIVES Our objectives are to systematically review the literature for multidimensional instruments that measure patient satisfaction after teleconsultation and triage and to compare these for content, reliability, v...

RATIONALE Stroke is a time-critical medical emergency requiring specialized treatment. Prehospital delay contributes significantly to delayed or missed treatment opportunities. In-ambulance telemedicine can bring stroke expertise to the prehospital arena and facilitate this complex diagnostic and therapeutic process. AIMS This study evaluates the efficacy, safety, feasibility, reliability and...

An effective, integrated telemedicine system has been developed that allows (a) teleconsultation between local primary health care providers (primary care physicians and general radiologists) and remote imaging subspecialists and (b) active patient participation related to his or her medical condition and patient education. The initial stage of system development was a traditional teleradiology...