| The Next Generation Internet (NGI) has been touted by both academic and industry as the conduit to new capabilities in health care, health education and health services by linking hospitals, clinics , practitioners' ooces, health professional specialists and universities. This paper introduces a web based telemedicine project, SWEAT, which is under development at Cairo University, Faculty of ...

PURPOSE To describe the United States Army Ocular Teleconsultation program and all consultations received from its inception in July 2004 through December 2009. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series. METHODS All 301 consecutive ocular teleconsultations received were reviewed. The main outcome measures were differential diagnosis, evacuation recommendations, and origi...

INTRODUCTION This study examines the delivery of psychiatric consultation services using videoconferencing technology to health and mental health workers in the Nunavut territory of Canada. The research provides insights into the TeleLink Mental Health Program and the delivery of professional-to-professional program consultations and continuing education seminars. METHODS Participant observat...

Anesthesiologist's involvement for the purpose of diagnostic and interventional procedures in cardiac catheterization laboratory has been evolving particularly since last two decades. Catheterization laboratory environment poses certain challenges for the anesthesiologist including unfamiliar remote location, exposure to radiation, limited help from colleagues and communication with cardiologis...

OBJECTIVE To compare health status and healthcare services use of rural, northern and urban Manitobans. METHOD Using anonymized administrative claims data derived from the Population Health Research Data Repository housed at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, four Manitoba regions were compared--Winnipeg, Brandon, Rural South and North--for 1996/97-2000/01. Indicators include mortality an...