This paper presents the experience of an Europe-Africa telemedicine network, focused on the pediatric area, and involving hospitals located in Luanda (Angola), Benguela (Angola), Praia (Cape Verde) and Coimbra (Portugal). In the scope of this network, the cooperation between these hospitals goes beyond the teleconsultation sessions. Tele-training, clinical experience exchange, patient transfer ...

Store and forward Voice-over-IP is a suggested solution for supporting Telemedicine at rural health clinics in developing countries. Solutions described to date are designed to support communication by establishing point-to-point connectivity between two sites. In this paper we present an approach for creating scalable Telemedicine networks based on Delay Tolerant Networking. This holds potenti...

On the background of an increasing importance of case-based learning and case-based reasoning for education and clinical practice the question of how to supply suitable cases becomes a crucial task. A generic approach for the publishing of clinical cases is described using the Unified Modeling Language UML with the oose.de methodology. The essential business processes in the scenario under cons...

Teledentistry is an exciting new area of dentistry that fuses electronic health records, telecommunications technology, digital imaging, and the Internet to link health providers in rural or remote communities. For the patient located in underserved or remote areas, teledentistry improves ready access to preventive dental care and teleconsultation with specialists. It allows the dentist in the ...

Telemedicine and teleconsultation are key areas that address the problem of shortage of medical professionals and experts in remote locations by leveraging remote expertise for local problems. Here in this paper we address a real time and nonreal time communication system simulataneously between health care professionals for providing expertise and informal/formal recommendations. Such computer...