Information security within healthcare is paramount and telemedicine applications present unique security challenges. Technology is giving rise to new and advanced telemedicine applications and understanding the security threats to these applications is needed to ensure, among other things, the privacy of patient information. This paper proposes a threat table approach to assess security threat...

s and Short Papers Standardization in Telemedicine in India: Initiatives and Policy Issues B.S.Bedi 189 Taking Telemedicine To Indian Villages The Wimax Way D. Lavanian 190 Teleradiology Clinical Experience and Education R.B. Gujral , Archna Gupta 192 Telemedicine for Disaster Mitigation in Health A Ayyagari, Ujjala Ghoshal 193 Tele-Consultancy in Specialty Medicine Bidyut Das 194 Tele-Cme for ...

Internet-based telemedicine is becoming an effective tool to deliver home-healthcare services and health information on demand, especially in rural areas, where there is often a large elderly population with greater rates of preventable chronic diseases. However, the designs of current interfaces for these internet-based telemedicine systems do not take elderly user characteristics into conside...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Telemedicine techniques can be used to address the rural-metropolitan disparity in acute stroke care. The Stroke Team Remote Evaluation Using a Digital Observation Camera (STRokE DOC) trial reported more accurate decision making for telemedicine consultations compared with telephone-only and that the California-based research network facilitated a high rate of thrombolysi...

OBJECTIVES In a district hospital in conflict-torn Somalia, we assessed (i) the impact of introducing telemedicine on the quality of paediatric care, and (ii) the added value as perceived by local clinicians. METHODS A 'real-time' audio-visual exchange of information on paediatric cases (Audiosoft Technologies, Quebec, Canada) took place between clinicians in Somalia and a paediatrician in Na...

Diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of vision loss in industrialized countries. Diabetic retinopathy has features which make it ideal for disease management by telemedicine. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has recently established consensus recommendations for ocular telemedicine for diabetic retinopathy, in cooperation with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. Th...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the continuous use of collaborative technologies over time. We conducted a case study on a major telemedicine network in the U.S. The analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data suggests that integration with the regular workflow, stable availability of professionals at remote locations, and the emergence of spontaneous k...

Information security within healthcare is paramount and telemedicine applications present unique security challenges. Technology is giving rise to new and advanced telemedicine applications and understanding the security threats to these applications is needed to ensure, among other things, the privacy of patient information. This paper presents a high level analysis of a telemedicine applicati...

Problems to implement and evaluate telemedicine may not be a surprise if the technology itself is more closely examined. It can be claimed that problems to develop a comprehensive and integrated use is a consequence of the technology’s openness. The analysis shows that we cannot speak about implementation in general, if telemedicine usage would have any impacts on organizational work routines. ...

OBJECTIVE A number of effective treatments for bulimia nervosa have been developed, but they are infrequently used, in part due to problems with dissemination. The goal of this study was to examine the cost effectiveness of telemedicine delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy for bulimia nervosa. METHOD A randomized controlled trial of face-to-face versus telemedicine cognitive behavioral th...