Teledentistry has gained an increasing popularity among dentists as alternative innovative solution to minimize the risk of transmission COVID-19 and other infections. Dentists at Bandung community health center have started implementing teledentistry since government issued a reference for dental oral services during pandemic. The purpose this study was analyze implementation in centers based ...

BACKGROUND: In Indonesia, the maternal mortality rate is still high and far from Sustainable Development Goals target of 305 compared to 70 per 100,000 live births. AIM: This study aims design mHealth concept improve quality antenatal care (ANC) with features that support service workers during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: The method used was literature conceptual mode...

The use of assistive technology and telemedicine is likely to continue to shape our medical practice in the future, notably in the field of sleep medicine, especially within developed countries. Currently, the number of people suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is increasing. Telemedicine (TM) can be used in a variety of ways in sleep medicine: telediagnostics, teleconsultat...

Background Fourteen African countries have no radiologists, and in others few radiologists work in rural areas. Teleradiology provides advice to doctors in remote settings but cost and poor internet connections limit its use. This study builds on several previous studies evaluating scanners and digital cameras for low-cost teleradiology. Digital camera images can be attached to emails and sent ...

The clinical effectiveness and costs of telemedicine in improving the referral process from primary to secondary care were examined in an eight-month prospective, comparative study with one-year follow-up. The internal-medicine outpatient clinics of two Finnish district hospitals were compared--Peijas Hospital (PH) with telemedicine and Hyvinkää Hospital (HH) without it. The three primary-care ...

BACKGROUND In April 2004, the US Army Medical Department approved the use of the Army Knowledge Online (AKO) electronic e-mail system as a teleconsultation service for remote teledermatology consultations from healthcare providers in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan to medical subspecialists in the United States. The success of the system has resulted in expansion of the telemedicine program to in...

BACKGROUND Optimal treatment of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) should be initiated immediately. System delay is considered an important indicator of quality of care in STEMI, and at the same time it is an independent predictor of clinical outcomes. It can be modified largely by introducing organisational changes. Although conditions have been created in Poland for common use...