Evidence has shown that diagnosis of dementia is reliable via video conference, but uptake of telehealth in this field has been slow. The aim of this paper was to consider the feasibility of implementing a telegeriatric memory disorder consultation as a standard clinical service and to assess stakeholder satisfaction with such a service. Method: The focus was on patient population located some ...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical information and services. It may be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over the telephone, or as sophisticated as using satellite technology to broadcast a consultation between providers at facilities in two countries, using videoconferencing equipment. The first is used daily by most health profess...

A mobile telemedicine system, capable of transmitting video and audio simultaneously, was designed for consulting acute stroke patients remotely. It could use a wireless local area network (e.g. inside the hospital) or a mobile phone network (e.g. outside the hospital). When initiating a call, the sending unit chose a suitable encoding profile based on the measured data throughput, in order to ...

BACKGROUND Practice managers play an important role in the organisation and delivery of primary care, including uptake and implementation of technologies. Little is currently known about practice managers' attitudes to the use of information and communication technologies, such as email or text messaging, to communicate or consult with patients. OBJECTIVES To investigate practice managers' a...

INTRODUCTION: Although current research methods can realize the effective collection of human physiological signals in health monitoring system, they cannot obtain ideal detection effect due to influence communication performance system. OBJECTIVES: In order improve remote consultation, a sports injury consultation system based on wireless sensor network is designed. METHODS: The wearable senso...

Telemedicine facilitates consultation with the health care provider located in a remote location by using telecommunication technology. Information and communication technologies are the backbone in telemedicine to provide clinical services for patients. A vital component in the telemedicine process is the transfer of medical images in order to diagnose a disease. The large size of medical imag...

BACKGROUND Telepathology is an expanding technology in multiple fields for remote pathology diagnosis and consultation. The use of telepathology in Mohs surgery has been very limited. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical experience of using a telepathology system for intraoperative consultations on difficult frozen sections during Mohs surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Intraoperative consultatio...

OBJECTIVE To identify characteristics of consultations that do not conform to the traditionally understood communication 'dyad', in order to highlight implications for medical education and develop a reflective 'toolkit' for use by medical practitioners and educators in the analysis of consultations. DESIGN A series of interdisciplinary research workshops spanning 12 months explored the socia...

Background and Aim: Medical consultations have an important role in dental diagnosis and treatment planning, and are indicated for patients with uncertain medical histories. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the medical consultations conducted for a group of patients in need of dental treatments. Materials and Methods: in this cross-sectional study, 173 medical consultation r...