BACKGROUND As the number of US burn centers has declined, access to burn care is increasingly limited. Inexperience in burn wound assessment by referring physicians often results in overtriage or undertriage. In an effort to improve access to burn care in our region, we instituted a program of telemedicine evaluation of acute burns. METHODS We created a telemedicine network linking our burn c...

Tele-Lab is a platform for e-learning in Internet security with a special focus on teaching by means of handson experience. A virtual laboratory is implemented for the provision of training environments for practical exercises. Tele-Lab uses virtual machine (VM) technology and virtual network devices. A VM is used to represent a physical computer in an exercise scenario. While every VM needs a ...

PURPOSE We investigated the effectiveness of tele-mentored ultrasonography between emergency medicine (EM) residents and remote experts in diagnosing acute appendicitis. METHODS This prospective observational study was performed in an academic emergency department. Beginning in June 2014, the EM residents performed the initial ultrasonography for suspected pediatric acute appendicitis; then, ...

application of ict in health (ehealth) has become an integral part of modern healthcare systems. elec­tronic health information management has proven useful in improving quality of health care, reducing costs and facilitating health research. however, the increasing complexity of healthcare and the growing demand for high quality healthcare delivery has created a need for ehealth systems with t...

Yutma bozukluğu birçok hasta grubunu etkileyebilen ve yarattığı komplikasyonlar nedeniyle erken dönemde sağlık hizmetlerine erişim gerektiren bir durumdur. Uzaklık, ekonomik kısıtlılıklar, hastalara ait hareket engeli, pandemi gibi bulaş riski yüksek durumlar yutma değerlendirmesi tedavisine erişimde engellere sebep olabilmektedir. Bu nedenle günümüzde, bozukluklarında tele-sağlık uygulamaların...

COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the entire health care system to a great extent and led development utilization of alternative approaches. Tele-oncology holds potential deliver cancer care. With use tele-oncology, physical distancing can be maintained. This will help patients as well oncologist other supporting staff from getting exposed virus. However, there are many challenges for starting t...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED Distance learning refers to use of technologies based on health care delivered on distance and covers areas such as electronic health, tele-health (e-health), telematics, telemedicine, tele-education, etc. For the need of e-health, telemedicine, tele-education and distance learning there are various technologies and communication systems from standard telephon...

Information and communication technology (ICT) empowers people with virtual accessibility to a wide range of activities reducing physical travel and traffic congestion. Since 1990, accessibility to ICT technologies, along with a drop in internet tariffs and prices of various devices like computers and mobile phones, has brought about a transformation of the activity travel behaviour of Indian e...