The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to the way clinicians interact with patients, implementation of measures like personal protective equipment, social distancing, and triage facilities. These aim protect healthcare professionals minimize transmission infection. However, despite these precautions, medical personnel still face a high risk exposure, leading shortage essential wo...

A teleconsultation service for cardiologists and cardiosurgeons is described that is based on three-dimensional ultrasound images integrated with an animated virtual heart model (augmented reality). The design uses three input devices: a simulated transducer head to select relevant image slices, a pointing device to mark individual regions, and speech recognition for overall control. Such a sce...

BACKGROUND Fourteen years after the reform to Colombia's health system, the promises of universality, improved equity, efficiency, and better quality of care have not materialized. Remote areas remain underserved and access to care very limited. Recognizing teleconsultation as an effective way to improve access to health care and health information, a noncommercial open-access Web-based applica...

This paper presents the design related to the electronic system design of the respiratory signal, including phases for processing, followed by the transmission and reception of this signal and finally display. The processing of this signal is added to the ECG and temperature sign, put up last year. Under this scheme is proposed that in future also be conditioned blood pressure signal under the ...

Digital whole slide imaging (WSI) provides a complement to traditional histopathology assessments of glass tissue slides for toxicologic pathology. WSI allows users to view images of entire slide content, or selected fields at increasing magnifications, and to compare multiple slide images simultaneously. The technology incorporates robust image databases with metadata and search & retrieval ca...

The utilisation of distributed medical intelligence can contribute significantly to the continuous improvement of patient care and accelerates the qualification process of the medical staff. An efficient way of realisation is the use of satellite networks for telemedical applications, as satellite communication has some distinct advantages over terrestrial communication channels: mesh topology ...

BACKGROUND The use of telemedicine has grown across several medical fields, due to the increasing number of "e-patients". OBJECTIVE This narrative review gives an overview of the growing use of telemedicine in different medical specialties, showing how its use can improve medical care. METHODS A PubMed/Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus search was performed using the following keyw...

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne has been providing teleconsultations since 2011 using web-based videoconferencing. We reviewed telehealth activity over the first 30 months of the programme. The average consultation rate was 14 per month in 2012, 39 in 2013 and 49 per month in the first half of 2014. One-third of all activity (265 out of 852 consultations) was provided by only t...