new technology, telemedicine, telepsychiatry

Chapter 6: Telemedicine Technology

Telepsychiatry in the 21 Century: Transforming Healthcare with Technology Telepsychiatry in the 21 Century: Transforming Healthcare with Technology

This article describes the benefits and constraints of telemedicine, focusing primarily on the field of psychiatry in the United States with the current system of healthcare. Telepsychiatry is believed to provide better access and higher-quality care to patients who need psychiatric care and cost savings to providers of such care. Telemedicine has been successfully integrated into psychiatric f...

Lean-Technology Enabled Telemedicine Scenarios

We have developed a layered, component-based Secure Collaborative Telemedicine Architecture (SCTA) and its applications to three representative scenarios, which are being deployed in rural West Virginia. Our approach emphasizes maximumn utilization of low-cost "off-the-shelf' technologies (lean technologies) and the use of "Smartcards" as a primary means for authenticating the providers and pat...

Telepsychiatry: new perspectives and open issues.

Telepsychiatry, thanks to the continuous advance of technologies, is an area with excellent prospects to become an effective tool for assistance in psychiatry. Many studies evaluated the effectiveness of telepsychiatry in different psychiatric disorders like anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders and depression. Results showed that telepsychiatry seems to be promising in anxiety and depressive ...

Telepsychiatry in the 21(st) century: transforming healthcare with technology.

This article describes the benefits and constraints of telemedicine, focusing primarily on the field of psychiatry in the United States with the current system of healthcare. Telepsychiatry is believed to provide better access and higher-quality care to patients who need psychiatric care and cost savings to providers of such care. Telemedicine has been successfully integrated into psychiatric f...

Telepointer technology in telemedicine : a review

Telepointer is a powerful tool in the telemedicine system that enhances the effectiveness of long-distance communication. Telepointer has been tested in telemedicine, and has potential to a big influence in improving quality of health care, especially in the rural area. A telepointer system works by sending additional information in the form of gesture that can convey more accurate instruction ...