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...

OBJECTIVE To identify the barriers and facilitators for sustainability of tele-homecare programs implemented by home health nursing agencies for chronic disease management. DATA SOURCES English-language articles on home telehealth in the CINAHL, PubMed/MEDLINE, PsychInfo, Web of Science, and Cochrane Reviews databases published from January 1996 to December 2013. STUDY DESIGN We performed a...

BACKGROUND Worldwide ultrasound equipment accessibility is at an all-time high, as technology improves and costs decrease. Ensuring that patients benefit from more accurate resuscitation and diagnoses from a user-dependent technology, such as ultrasound, requires accurate examination, typically entailing significant training. Remote tele-mentored ultrasound (RTUS) examination is, however, a tec...

the tele-connection patterns are the major constituents of climate at global and regional scale(s). the karoon basin is of a vital stance in providing natural water supply and hydroelectric; this basin is facing major fluctuations in rainfall regime. identifying the effect of tele-connection on great karoon basin rainfall regime is the subject of this study. to accomplish this objective the sea...

This paper describes an overview of telemedicine applications in ophthalmology and at the same time to provide background information on new tele-ophthalmological applications and the use of tele-Ophthalmology. Few urban areas for their population, no access/ very less access to tertiary eye care. In order to make eye care services accessible to every one, the concept called “Teleophthalmology”...

Due to the rise of aging population, effective utilization of healthcare resources has become an important issue. With the advance of ICT technology, the application of tele-healthcare service has received more attention than ever. The main purpose of this research is to investigate how to conduct innovative design for tele-healthcare service based on user’s perspectives. First, the healthcare ...

World is now moving in the era of high information and communication technology. Under term telemedicine tele-cooperation research series are carried out presently, intended to enable expand a distributed, group-related cooperative work within area medicine. For this purpose, applications needed, which support real-time control processes, distributed applications, cooperation technology, repres...

BACKGROUND Infants who do not pass their newborn hearing screen require diagnostic follow-up visits but often face access barriers such as travel distance and shortage of pediatric audiologists. Telemedicine (tele-audiology) is a potential solution to provide diagnostic hearing evaluations for families of infants facing access barriers. We determined the feasibility and impact of a tele-audiolo...

Tele-forensic interviewing (tele-FI;e g , via video-conferencing software) may be an effective way of increasing the accessibility skilled interviewers for children who are questioned as part a criminal or care and protection investigation The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted how critical it is that we have evidence-based procedures to draw upon when traditio...

BACKGROUND Doctors' verbal and non-verbal communication skills have an impact on patients' health outcomes, so it is important for medical students to develop these skills. Traditional, non-verbal communication skills training can involve a tutor manually annotating a student's non-verbal behaviour during patient-doctor consultations, but this is very time-consuming. Tele-conference systems hav...