One of the factors for rural physicians to continue their rural practices is continuing professional development (CPD) [1]. In Japan, academic training has been reported to be the most common type of CPD, followed in descending order by participation in academic meetings, academic activities including doctor of philosophy programs [2]. The use of tele-education (remote-support systems using inf...

BACKGROUND Infants who do not pass their newborn hearing screen require diagnostic follow-up visits but often face access barriers such as travel distance and shortage of pediatric audiologists. Telemedicine (tele-audiology) is a potential solution to provide diagnostic hearing evaluations for families of infants facing access barriers. We determined the feasibility and impact of a tele-audiolo...

BACKGROUND Doctors' verbal and non-verbal communication skills have an impact on patients' health outcomes, so it is important for medical students to develop these skills. Traditional, non-verbal communication skills training can involve a tutor manually annotating a student's non-verbal behaviour during patient-doctor consultations, but this is very time-consuming. Tele-conference systems hav...

We propose a novel passivity-enforcing tele-driving control framework, which will enable a human operator to stably tele-control a unicycle-type wheeled mobile robot (WMR) over communication network with constant delays while having some useful haptic force-feedback. We consider both the case of kinematic and dynamic WMRs. Our main objective is to enable human users to tele-drive the WMR as the...

objectives: the aim of this research was to assess the level of awareness of rehabilitation professionals employed in academic rehabilitation centers in tehran with reference to tele-rehabilitation technology. methods: in this study, a descriptive cross-sectional research method was used. the research was implemented by using a researcher-designed questionnaire which was developed by the integr...

Tele-Immersion is the merging of audio and video conferencing with collaborative virtual reality, datamining and significant computation systems. As TeleImmersion often involves distantly located participants all interacting with each other in real-time, it relies heavily on the quality of the underlying networks used to distribute information between participants. This paper presents our preli...

Data standards play an important role to provide interoperability among different system. As other applications of telemedicine, the tele-radiology needs these standards to work properly. In this article, we conducted a review to introduce some data standards about tele-radiology. By searching PUBMED and Google Scholar database, we find more relevant articles about data standards in tele-radiol...

Tele-conferencing and tele-education are vital for a user-oriented service organization with national scope. The Web SlideShow is a slide support tool designed to provide a remote audience with access to viewgraph presentations. The World-Wide Web (WWW) media has been chosen for its flexibility and multi-platform capabilities. While the tool was at first meant for use in conjunction with standa...

Tele-echography may be an interesting alternative to conventional care when the medical expert is not close to the patient to be examined. In a system for tele-echography, medical expert proprioception and gesture feelings must be preserved to synchronize the ultrasound images with the motion made by the physician. It is why we develop a master-slave system for robotic tele-echography integrati...

PURPOSE To attempt to quantify the potential for success of tele-endoscopy as a component of the VTMEDNET Plus telemedicine implementation, a multi-part prospective study was undertaken by faculty of the Vermont Initiative for Rural Health Informatics and Telemedicine. METHOD The study was comprised of three separate parts, evaluation of image quality, cost analysis, and identification of ref...