Telemedicine has the potential to help facilitate the delivery of health services to rural areas. In the right circumstances, telemedicine may also be useful for the delivery of education and teaching programmes and the facilitation of administrative meetings. In this paper reference is made to a variety of telemedicine applications in Australia and other countries including telepaediatrics, ho...

Background: Telemedicine has been used in different fields of medicine in the past 20 years. The main advantages of this technology include saving costs, improving quality of care, and increasing access to specialists. This study aimed to review telemedicine applications in treating burn patients.   Methods: In this systematized review study, related papers were searched using various d...

Changes in health care policies, demographics, and technology have presented new opportunities for the delivery of medical care services and information to rural communities. Telemedicine—the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distances separates the participants—is one technology that has impacted the efficiency of delivery of ...

BACKGROUND Canadian provinces boast one of the most sophisticated telemedicine infrastructures in the world. Feasibility of epilepsy care through telemedicine is established, but its use by practicing neurologists is unknown. The Canadian League against Epilepsy's telemedicine task force conducted this study to understand the perceptions, barriers and usage of telemedicine in epilepsy care. M...

Telemedicine has a strategic role in providing timely medical care and containing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite its importance, telemedicine is largely underdeveloped in developing countries. This paper attempts to explore the factors influencing telemedicine usage by conducting case studies in two Chinese hospitals. Based on a research model we proposed, factors are identified tha...

Tracks:  eHealth technology and devices  eHealth data records  eHealth information processing  eHealth systems and communications  Telemedicine/eHealth applications  Telemedicine/eHealth services  Social and financial aspects  Classical medicine and eHealth integration  Preventative eHealth systems  Challenges of large-scale, cost-effective eHealth systems  Nurse team applications  ...

Conventional development of telemedicine systems usually leads to a medical information driven paradigm that tends to fail in capturing suitable abstraction when developing conference-oriented telemedicine systems for assisting the proceeding of telemedicine practices. By reviewing publicly available telemedicine systems through commonality and variability analysis, we have identified common de...

Telemedicine is not medicine, but it is used to compute, to communicate and to deliver high-quality medical care regardless of location. It reduces cost, time and resources. Furthermore, wireless technologies play significant roles in telemedicine, and they are therefore called wireless telemedicine or mobile-health. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on wireless telemedicine, including...