Telemedicine is changing the practice of medicine. It is part of the ever-growing use of communications technology in health care being used in prevention, disease management, home health care, long-term (chronic) care, emergency medicine, remote medical imaging, and many other applications. The pace at which telemedicine is being adopted and integrated into the healthcare enterprise is exponen...

Many governments the world over ratified the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which seek to improve the general wellbeing of people (UNDP, 2010). These MDGs touch on health among other things. The sixth MDG seeks to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by year 2015. In tandem with this MDG, our study sought to develop and use an integrated mobile health system to curb malaria disease control. The ...

For the first time, a complete wireless and mobile emergency TeleOrthoPaedics system with field trials and expert opinion is presented. The system enables doctors in a remote area to obtain a second opinion from doctors in the hospital using secured wireless telecommunication networks. Doctors can exchange securely medical images and video as well as other important data, and thus perform remot...

Inevitably, healthcare goes mobile. Recently developed mobile healthcare (i.e., m-health) services allow healthcare professionals to monitor mobile patient’s vital signs and provide feedback to this patient anywhere at any time. Due to the nature of current supporting mobile service platforms, m-health services are delivered with a best-effort, i.e., there are no guarantees on the delivered Qua...

Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 male physicians observed over the period 1993-1997. The methods of...

AbstrAct Building context-aware mobile healthcare systems have become increasingly important with the emergence of new medical sensor technologies, the fast adoption of advanced mobile systems, and improved quality of care required by today's patients. A unique feature of our mobile healthcare system is a distributed processing paradigm whereby a set of bio-signal processing tasks is spread acr...

Partnerships among health care and information technology researchers and designers worldwide are creating mobile health tools tailored to local community needs and resources. Much of the hardware and infrastructure comes from developed countries of the so-called global North. From both these countries as well as developing countries in the global "South" are coming applications that enable hea...

Julia C.M. van Weert PhD. Senior Researcher, NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands Bienke M. Janssen MA. Researcher, NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands Alexandra M. van Dulmen PhD. Research Coordinator, NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands Peter M.M. Spre...