Objectives Customer discovery (CD) is a method to determine if there are actual customers for a product/service and what they would want before actually developing the product/service. This concept, however, is rather new to health information technology (IT) systems. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to demonstrate how to use the CD method in developing a comprehensive health IT service for...

In this paper the evaluation of a novel haptic macro-micro telemanipulation system is presented. The system includes an interface between a haptic mechanism and a mobile microrobotic platform driven by two centripetal force actuators. The unique characteristics and challenges that arise during the haptic micromanipulation using the specific microrobotic platform are described. The tele-manipula...

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder patients frequently present recurrent episodes and often experience subsyndromal symptoms, cognitive impairment and difficulties in functioning, with a low quality of life, illness relapses and recurrent hospitalization. Early diagnosis and appropriate intervention may play a role in preventing neuroprogression in this disorder. New technologies represent an opportun...

Recent advances in telemedicine and robotically assisted telesurgery may offer advanced surgical care for the geographically remote patient. Similar advances in tele-anesthesia will be necessary to optimize perioperative care for these patients. Although many preliminary investigations into tele-anesthesia are underway, none involves remote performance of anesthesia-related procedures. Here we ...

This study demonstrated a method to train medical students at Hanoi Medical School in airway management from Omaha, Nebraska, using tele-mentoring techniques. Correct placement of the endotracheal tube was documented by tele-broncoscopy following intubation. This technology may increase medical training capabilities in remote or developing areas of the world. Medical care delivery could be perf...

The paper presents a demand-based engineering method for designing urban wireless networks. We present an integrated approach to include the effects of both tele-traffic and radio signal coverage for cellular network planning. The novelty of our scheme is an application of clustering technique to determine the cell and base-station locations. We model the cell planning problem as a clustering p...

In this paper we summarize the results we have obtained in building a testbed for tele-collaboration. It is based on a highly accurate and precise stereo algorithm. The results demonstrate the live (on-line) recovery of 3-D models of a dynamically changing environment and the simultaneous display and manipulation of the models. Virtual tele-collaboration may soon change completely our way of co...

To obtain a natural view of the operation room and autonomous image selection and transformation during tele-surgical operation, we propose a telemonitoring system which is composed of two types of camera systems. One is an active camera system controlled by surgeon’s gesture and gaze direction to obtain natural view image. Another is a fixed camera system that is composed of multiple cameras a...

This paper discusses the state of the art in networking, and explains the way existing networks can support tele-education applications. Chapter 1 identifies which tele-education parameters have the biggest impact upon the underlying network, and proposes a classification of teleeducation applications. Chapter 2 discusses the various networks that are used for tele-education purposes: Local Are...

This paper presents hybrid control of displacement and force in a Medical TeleAnalyzer by disturbance observer-based controller which is robust to internal and external disturbances; model uncertainty, load, and friction for instances. The developed Medical TeleAnalyzer consists of 2 subsystems; doctor-side subsystem and patient-side subsystem. In the doctor side subsystem, an array of displace...