Telemedicine in developing countries

Telemedicine for Developing Countries

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 ...

Telemedicine and mobile health with integrative medicine in developing countries

Investigating Factors Influencing Telemedicine Usage in Developing Countries

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...

TeleMedMail: Free Software to Facilitate Telemedicine in Developing Countries

Telemedicine offers the potential to alleviate the severe shortage of medical specialists in developing countries. However lack of equipment and poor network connections usually rule out video-conferencing systems. This paper describes a software application to facilitate store-and-forward telemedicine by email of images from digital cameras. TeleMedMail is written in Java and allows structured...

Barriers Faces Telemedicine Implementation in the Developing Countries: toward Building Iraqi Telemedicine Framework

The Iraqi healthcare services are tussling get possession of lost momentum. Many professional physicians and nurses left Iraq because the current situation there. In spite of the plans of calling back the skilled health workforce but they still afraid of disadvantage of their return. Hence, technology plays a central role to take advantage of their profession through the use of telemedicine. Th...