Telemedicine provides doctors with access to remotely-located resources and empowers diagnosis and consultation over a network connection. Key objectives of telemedicine are to decrease the cost and increase the efficiency of medical service. This thesis presents an example of an advanced telemedicine application. A prototype system for remote image diagnosis using an optical microscope was des...

PURPOSE The purpose of this report was to develop a learning consultation program to help medical students adjust to studying. Also, it investigated students with learning difficulties and determined their learning needs. METHODS Four hundred forty-two medical students from 2 medical schools in Korea were surveyed with regard to learning difficulties and learning consultation needs. Of the re...

In this paper we want to represent the integration of two different and independent remote monitoring medical systems with a consultation system for physicians Internet Medical Consultant (IMC). The first system is Critical Homecare System (CHS) and the other one is Heartbeat Tracker (HT). The CHS systems monitors the vital signals for chronically ill, convalescents or elderly people with high ...

INTRODUCTION As for many health professionals, distance presents an enormous challenge to pharmacists working in rural and remote Australia. Previous studies have identified issues relating to the size of the rural and remote pharmacist workforce, and a number of national initiatives have been implemented to promote the recruitment and retention of pharmacists in rural and remote locations. The...

BACKGROUND The growing cost of health care and lack of specialised staff have set e-Health high on the European political agenda. In a prospective study we evaluated the effect of providing images for remote consultation through an iPad on the number of in-hospital orthopaedic consultations for children with bone fractures. METHODS Children from 0 to 18 years diagnosed with a bone fracture by...

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND US Associated/Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) include three freely associated states: Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and three Territories: American Samoa, Guam, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. OBJECTIVE The Pacific Island Health Care Project (PIHCP) provides humanitarian medical referral/consultation/care to >500,000 indi...

BACKGROUND Patients with complex medical comorbidities travel for protracted periods to remote destinations, often with limited access to medical care. Few descriptions are available of their preexisting health burden. This study aimed to characterize preexisting medical conditions and medications of travelers seeking pre-travel health advice at a specialized travel medicine clinic. METHODS R...

The need for a new healthcare system that is usable anytime and anyplace is growing due to paradigm shift from health supervision to health preservation, the increasing number of the elderly. Activities in this field include acquiring, man aging, and using biomedical information from personal to global level, to enhance quality and efficiency of medical care and the response to widespread publi...

Between 2020-21, BAPIO through its arms length Institute for Health Research (BIHR) and partners in the Alliance Equality Healthcare Professions, undertook a comprehensive, thematic synthesis of differential attainment as affecting lifecycle health professional from entry to exit profession. This was followed by series consensus building workshops involving triumvirate grassroots professionals,...