Conventional telemedicine has limitations due to the existing time constraints in the response of a medical specialist. One major reason is that telemedicine based medical facilities are subject to the availability of a medical expert and telecommunication facilities. On the other hand, communication using telecommunication is only possible on fixed and appointed time. Typically, the field of t...

Evaluations of telemedicine have sought to assess various measures of effectiveness (e.g., diagnostic accuracy), efficiency (e.g., cost), and engagement (e.g., patient satisfaction) to determine its success. Few studies, however, have looked at evaluating the organizational impact of telemedicine, which involves technology and process changes that affect the way that it is used and accepted by ...

Telemedicine is part of the expanding use of communications technology in health care, or " telehealth, " being used in prevention, disease management, home health care, long-term care, emergency medicine, and other applications. The diversification of such applications and continued advances in communications technologies, including the Internet, are raising expectations for telemedicine. Howe...

BACKGROUND To examine the impact of telemedicine on access to acute stroke care and expertise in the state of Texas. METHODS Texas hospitals were surveyed using a standard questionnaire and categorized as: (1) stand-alone Primary Stroke Centers not using telemedicine for acute stroke care, (2) Primary Stroke Centers using telemedicine for acute stroke care, (3) non-Primary Stroke Center hospi...

OBJECTIVES To review papers reporting actual experience with telemedicine in developing countries and to summarize their findings, including the strength of the evidence. DESIGN A retrospective review was conducted. Study quality was assessed. SETTING Four commonly-used electronic databases. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Study quality scores. RESULTS From a total of 202 potential articles, 38 r...

The definition of health information is growing to include multimedia audio, video, and high-resolution still images. This article describes the telemedicine program at East Carolina University School of Medicine, including the telemedicine applications presently in use and the virtual reality applications currently under development' Included are the major design criteria that shape the teleme...

OBJECTIVES An official guideline must be prepared for legalizing the doctor-patient telemedicine system based on the evaluations of the ongoing telemedicine demonstration project performed by the Korean government. In this study, critical items of the Korean telemedicine guideline are suggested based on the guidelines of developed countries. METHODS To investigate the telemedicine guidelines ...

Background: Developing countries need telemedicine applications that help in many situations, when physicians are a small number with respect to the population, when specialized physicians are not available, when patients and physicians in rural villages need assistance in the delivery of health care. Moreover, the requirements of telemedicine applications for developing countries are somewhat ...

The Eastern Cape province of South Africa is one of the poorest provinces in the country with vast rural areas. A telemedicine system was implemented in the province in order to improve health care services. Despite large investments from the National Department of Health, only a third of telemedicine sites in the province are operational. Technology problems, such as unreliable electricity sup...

The health care industry in the United States has been experiencing substantial and ever increasing cost pressures. At the same time, many forces are revolutionizing the way health care is financed and delivered. Telemedicine, in this respect, offers significant potential for addressing some of the challenges faced by the health care industry. However, despite the fact that Telemedicine technol...