This paper proposes an overview of a study that conceptually unify the fields of virtual reality and teleoperation, by analyzing the notion of “assistance” to the operator of a virtual reality or tele-operation system. This analysis demonstrates that cases of assistance that are usually considered to belong to virtual reality are not conceptually different from what has been done in tele-operat...

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...

There is an increasing interest on tele-medicine and tele-diagnostic solutions based on the remote inspection of volume data coming from multimodal imaging. Client-server architectures meet these functionalities. The use of mobile devices is sometimes required due to the portability and easy maintenance. However, transmission time for the volumetric information and low performance hardware prop...

Telemedicine for the intensive care unit (Tele-ICU) was founded as a means of delivering the clinical expertise of intensivists located remotely to hospitals with inadequate access to intensive care specialists. This was a retrospective pre- and postintervention study of adult patients admitted to a community hospital ICU. The patients in the preintervention period (n = 630) and during the Tele...

Backgraund: mobile devices are widely available and their computational performance increases, allowing them to enter new areas of application. In this situation, medicine should not be a failure: single-screen computers phones essential companions for telehealth professionals
 Aim: explore opportunities ultrasonic Tele-Ultrasound using smartphones single-plate computers.
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We propose a methodology for digitally fusing diagnostic decisions made by multiple medical experts in order to improve accuracy of diagnosis. Toward this goal, we report an experimental study involving nine experts, where each one was given more than 8,000 digital microscopic images of individual human red blood cells and asked to identify malaria infected cells. The results of this experiment...

An der Universität Trier wurde eine neue, drastisch vereinfachte Zugangstechnik für Online-Vorlesungen namens tele-TASK (Teleteaching Anywhere Solution Kit) [TELE] [MS02] mit Erfolg erprobt. Von der Wohnung oder vom Büro aus kann dadurch jeder PC-Nutzer mit geeignetem Internetanschluss ob interessierter Laie, Fachspezialist oder eingeschriebener Student Lehrveranstaltungen komfortabel mitverfol...

In this paper we present why tele-monitoring is a promising application domain for Ubiquitous Computing. We discuss how the characteristics of ubiquitous information systems can be applied in the design of tele-monitoring applications and what special conditions and problems have to be regarded. Finally, we present the results of the implementation of such an application realized in a joint res...

Tele-centres offer a low cost opportunity for the many who cannot afford their own phone or Internet connection. This paper presents a field study of tele-centres in Ghana and analyses how they contribute to universal access. 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.