Telehealth: improving maternity services by modern technology

Use of telehealth technology to extend child protection team services.

OBJECTIVE In response to increased referrals to Florida's Child Protection Teams and concern regarding statewide availability of medical expertise in the area of child abuse and neglect, Children's Medical Services of the Florida Department of Health established a telemedicine project to facilitate immediate expert medical evaluations of alleged child abuse or neglect. This article describes a ...

Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Breastfeeding Promotion in Maternity Services

Improving Quality of Services in Maternity Care Triage System

The main objectives in triage are to improve the quality of care and reduce the risks associated to the waiting time in emergency care. Thus, an efficient triage is a good way to avoid some future problems and how much quicker it is, more the patient can benefit. The most common triage system is the Manchester Triage System that is a reliable system focused in the emergency department of a hosp...

wHealth - Transforming Telehealth Services

A worldwide increase in proportions of older people in the population poses the challenge of managing their increasing healthcare needs within limited resources. To achieve this many countries are interested in adopting telehealth technology. Several shortcomings of state-of-the-art telehealth technology constrain widespread adoption of telehealth services. We present an ensemblesensing framewo...

Standards for Telehealth Services

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