With the widespread deployment of the Internet nowadays and the increasing power and sophistication of network communication technologies, many collaborative systems have been proposed to support users in geographically dispersed areas in transmitting and sharing multimedia data (Huang et al., 2007; Li et al., 2004; Marsh et al., 2006). One area in which collaborative systems have found particu...

Taiwan is a heavily populated country, with a small land area and many mountains and isolated islands. Because medical resources are unequally distributed, high quality accessible medical care is a major problem in rural areas. Medical personnel are unwilling to practice in rural areas because of fear of isolation from peers and lack of continuing medical education (CME) in those areas. Telemed...

BACKGROUND Teleconsultation is a guarantor for virtual supervision of clinical professors on clinical decisions made by medical residents in teaching hospitals. Type, format, volume, and quality of exchanged information have a great influence on the quality of remote clinical decisions or tele-decisions. Thus, it is necessary to develop a reliable and standard model for these clinical relations...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is considered a health service solution. Teleconsultation an innovation that makes it easy for patients to consult with specialist physicians without having face-to-face meeting. This study aims determine developments related research on effectiveness of teleconsultation in effort increase patient satisfaction. The results can be implemented improve po...

This poster presents an innovative real-time Teleconsultation System for synchronized navigation of the pages of a web-based Oncological Electronic Medical Record, designed to provide clinicians a cooperative work tool supporting the oncologic patient management between different hospitals. The system embeds additional tools supporting the discussion: digital whiteboard, chat and a digital audi...

BACKGROUND Image-based teleconsultation between medical experts and healthcare staff at remote emergency centres can improve the diagnosis of conditions which are challenging to assess. One such condition is burns. Knowledge is scarce regarding how medical experts perceive the influence of such teleconsultation on their roles and relations to colleagues at point of care. METHODS In this quali...

We have previously proposed a method for assessing the quality of individual teleconsultation cases; this paper proposes an additional step to allow the long-term monitoring of quality. The basic scenario is a teleconsultation system (aka an e-referral system or a tele-expertise system) where the referrer posts a question about a clinical case, the question is relayed to an appropriate expert, ...