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...

When designing a facility for telemedicine, there are several things to consider from a human factors point of view, as well as from a practicality point of view. Although the future practice of telemedicine is likely to be more of a mobile-based practice and centered more in the home than it is now, it is still very important to consider ways to optimize the design of clinic-based telemedicine...

At the University of Missouri, our long involvement in telemedicine has been motivated not only by academic curiosity but also by a very practical desire to find out whether and how telemedicine can help deliver better rural health care in the growing number of communities we serve. Although studies of focused applications are valuable, our questions involved the feasibility and value of teleme...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored two telemedicine research reviews. The latest review concluded that telemedicine is most relevant to specialties, such as psychiatry and neurology, where high levels of patient interaction are crucial to assessment. Telemedicine research studies cited in the reviews having positive findings in the specialties of ophthalmology, otolaryngol...

Received Dec 3, 2013 Revised Jan 7, 2014 Accepted Feb 3, 2014 The merits of 802.11s as the wireless mesh network standard provide a low cost and high independent scalability telemedicine infrastructure. However, challenges in degradation of performance as hops increase and the absent of Quality of Service (QoS) provision need to be resolved. The reliability and timely manner are the important f...

Telemedicine-the use of technology to deliver care at a distance-is rapidly growing and can potentially expand access for patients, enhance patient-physician collaboration, improve health outcomes, and reduce medical costs. However, the potential benefits of telemedicine must be measured against the risks and challenges associated with its use, including the absence of the physical examination,...

According to the literature, Denmark has a leading position in the dissemination and use of health informatics. However, there is a lack of systematically collected and documented experience of telemedicine solutions in Denmark. This evidence is being established with a new project, which maps out all telemedicine initiatives in Denmark. Data on all the initiatives is collected in a single data...

Telemedicine is lying between fading and future. Several clinical studies and critical reviews have been published recently, but the results are inconclusive and the adoption of telemedicine interventions in clinical practice is slow. This article discusses some of the current problems related to the adoption of telemedicine systems and focuses on the information technology solutions that appea...

In recent years, the shortage of medical specialists and access to medical information has necessitated a growing interest for cost effective and efficient telemedicine tools for healthcare delivery. Mobile telemedicine applications are aimed at meeting the mobility requirements of patients and doctors by integrating wireless communications for different health care services and education.Altho...