background: hospitals employing telesurgery need to be evaluated to determine whether they satisfy the international standards. the main goal of this research was to assess the software, hardware, telecommunication equipments, privacy and security methods, and staffing requirements for supporting and executing telesurgery in hospitals affiliated to tehran universities of medical sciences, tehra...

background: historically, operating room (or) has always been considered as a stand-alone trusted platform for surgical education and training.however, concerns about financial constraints, quality control, and patient safety have urged the surgical educators to develop more cost-effective, surgical educational platforms that can be employed outside the or. furthermore, trained surgeons need to...

Video is a powerful medium and is underused for patient safety in several areas: education, real-time consultation, process improvement, research, and workflow coordination. We illustrate this point through an overview of uses of video in health care by the authors and others in several institutions. These uses were in the context of team work training, operating room coordination, technical sk...

BACKGROUND Historically, operating room (OR) has always been considered as a stand-alone trusted platform for surgical education and training. However, concerns about financial constraints, quality control, and patient safety have urged the surgical educators to develop more cost-effective, surgical educational platforms that can be employed outside the OR. Furthermore, trained surgeons need to...

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO) is a telementoring program health professionals that uses adult learning techniques and interactive video technology to connect distal community providers with specialist multidisciplinary teams in real-time collaborative sessions. We examine the adoption, implementation, sustainability of ECHO programs at four academic medical centers ...