Initiative: The Tygerberg Children's Hospital and Rotary Telemedicine Project in South Africa links specialists from Tygerberg Hospital to doctors at regional community or "district" hospitals to improve healthcare in rural areas. The initiative has assembled its own telemedicine system using off-the-shelf computer equipment and software that is more affordable than commercial telemedicine syst...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Telemedicine is emerging as a potential timesaving, efficient means for evaluating patients experiencing acute stroke. In areas where local stroke care specialists are not available, telemedicine can link an emergency department physician with a specialist in a stroke treatment center. This consultation provides an opportunity for administration of thrombolytic drugs with...

The newly developing field of telemedicine has the potential to benefit pediatric care by increasing access to pediatric specialists and services. This report explores the current uses and limitations of telemedicine in pediatrics. Pediatrics 2004;113:e639–e643. URL: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/113/ 6/e639; telemedicine, pediatrics, access to care. ABBREVIATION. CMS, Centers for ...

Telemedicine is currently being used to bridge the physical distance between patients in remote areas and medical specialists around the world. Developing countries have had little experience or success with telemedicine, in part because of the prohibitively expensive equipment and connectivity costs involved. Developing countries require low-cost, sustainable telemedicine solutions for the loc...

BACKGROUND There is a critical shortage of pediatric rheumatologists in the US. Substantial travel to clinics can impose time and monetary burdens on families. The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost of in-person pediatric rheumatology visits for families and determine if telemedicine clinics resulted in time and cost savings. Factors associated with interest in telemedicine were also ex...

This paper analyzes the application of information communication technologies for the delivery of medical services, namely telemedicine. As an attempt to understand the working of telemedicine the Aaragonda project by Apollo hospitals has been studied. Various aspects of telemedicine such as implementation and infrastructure and possible lessons from the implementation of such a project have be...

This article outlines a pilot study using telemedicine to assess chest pain in a minor injury unit. It discusses how the pilot was set up and the benefits of telemedicine for both patients and staff. Bridgwater Community Hospital has recently won an award from the Community Hospitals Association for its use of cardiology telemedicine in its unit.

Fast-growing interest in telemedicine and increased investment in its enabling technology have made physician technology acceptance a growing concern for development and management of telemedicine. In this study, we used Theory of Planned Behavior to investigate technology acceptance by physicians who practiced in public tertiary hospitals in Hong Kong. Our data supported the investigated theor...

Telemedicine is a technological innovation that has increasingly interested IS researchers and practitioners. An emerging area largely driven by technologies and their clinical applications, telemedicine is still searching for coherent and directing frameworks to advance management practices and research. Findings and discussions offered by the papers accepted by this year’s minitrack are inter...

Introduction Advanced technology has increased the use of telemedicine and Information Technology (IT) in treating or rehabilitating diseases. An increased use of technology increases the importance of the ethical issues involved. The need for keeping patients' information confidential and secure, controlling a number of therapists' inefficiency as well as raising the quality of healthcare serv...