Telemedicine provides medical information and services using telecommunication technologies. It includes systems for remote clinical care and consultation through the use of electronic imaging equipment. In wireless telemedicine, broadband multimedia information that is a combination of video, audio and externally acquired images is transmitted. Emergency medicine helicopters take an important ...

Integrating store-and-forward telemedicine into the ANMC ENT practice for remotely located patients has improved access for care as well as the quality of care for our patients. The involvement of the ANMC ENT department in the design of the telemedicine system was critical. Yet building the telemedicine service required creative measures to encourage use and careful management of our capacity ...

Over 40 years of research has yielded a wealth of data about the cost effectiveness and efficacy of many telemedicine applications. PubMed a bibliographic database of medical research that is maintained by the National Library of Medicine includes over 12,000 citations of published works related to telemedicine or telehealth. Over 2,000 evaluative studies related to telemedicine have been publi...

Telemedicine refers to the delivery and provision of health care and consultative services to individual patients and the transmission of information related to care, over distance, using telecommunications technologies.Quality of service is a critical determinant of telemedicine performance. In addition, it can also be a critical factor in determining long-term viability of a telemedicine serv...

Over 40 years of research has yielded a wealth of data about the cost effectiveness and efficacy of many telemedicine applications. PubMed a bibliographic database of medical research that is maintained by the National Library of Medicine includes over 12,000 citations of published works related to telemedicine or telehealth. Over 2,000 evaluative studies related to telemedicine have been publi...

The use of telemedicine has recently undergone rapid growth and proliferation. Although the feasibility of many applications has been tested for nearly 30 years, data concerning the costs, effects, and effectiveness of telemedicine are limited. Consequently, the development of a strategy for coverage, payment, and utilization policy has been hindered. Telemedicine continues to expand, and press...

The awareness of health care providers, particularly physicians, towards telemedicine is pivotal to its development. In this study we distributed questionnaires among Libyan physicians attending a medical symposium on telemedicine, held in the period 28 February-1 March, 2005. The sample comprised 28 males and 13 females from different specialties and from different parts of the country. Most r...

Medicine in Hong Kong is a microcosm of Hong Kong itself—it is bustling, dynamic, go-ahead, state-of-theart. What is surprising, perhaps, is that Hong Kong should also be in the vanguard of the development of telemedicine, having formed the Hong Kong Telemedicine Association at an early stage in the development of the subject globally, contributed to a series of international telemedicine confe...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications for medical diagnosis and patient care. Telecommunication technology allows for the provision of medical services to sites that are physically separated from the provider. The telemedicine communication link usually involves standard telephone service through high speed, wide bandwidth transmission of digital signals in conjunction with computer enh...