This paper discusses the value of identifying the expanding interdisciplinary scholarly literature on the topic of (tele)presence, proposes a detailed procedure for doing so, and presents a list of 1,831 journal articles, books and other publications that constitute the (tele)presence literature as of May 2007.

Healthcare is important to people, especially to elderly people who lives independently. Since Internet services are getting reliable and stable, the tele-healthcare systems built on the Internet can be good supports to the traditional home healthcare centres and hospitals. The Internet-based tele-healthcare systems use Internet and specific modules can decrease the healthcare costs for patient...

Purpose: Veneto Region is currently achieving the integration of health and social services by integrating the tele-surveillance (detection of emergencies) already provided to ‘socially frail’ people with tele-monitoring, addressed to patients affected by chronic diseases. Theory: This strategy is guided by the idea that a better integration between the different levels of assistance is capable...

The aim of this paper is to describe patients' attitudes towards tele-rehabilitation in the Danish TELEKAT (for Telehomecare, Chronic Patients and the Integrated Healthcare System) project, in order to better understand patients' behavior when performing tele-rehabilitation activities in home surroundings. A total of 111 COPD patients were included in the study, and they were randomized into an...

PURPOSE To report low-income homebound older adults' experience of telehealth problem-solving therapy (tele-PST) and aging-service case managers' (CMs') experience/perception of client-level personal barriers to accessing psychotherapy in general and PST specifically. DESIGN AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 42 homebound older adults who participated in the feasibility and efficacy tr...

In tele-assistance a robot operates partly guided by a human and partly autonomously. Tele-assistance thus fills in the gap between full autonomy, and direct control by a human tele-operator. Instead of directly controlling the motor actions of a robot, in tele-assistance the human interacts with the robot using a deictic high level language. Pook and Ballard have implemented such a system usin...

s identified through the search strategy were entered in Reference Manager and were grouped into ten subject areas: Paediatric telehealth First Nations telehealth Geriatric telehealth Tele-homecare Tele-mental health Teleradiology and Tele-ultrasound Renal Dialysis telehealth Rural & Remote telehealth Telerehabilitation It was decided that the subject areas of teleradiology and tele-ultrasound ...

UNLABELLED Tele-health is more than an innovative alternative; it is an excellent tool that enables access to health and education in health, making it possible to minimize distances, optimize time and reduce costs. Based on these advantages, some Brazilian Universities have used these actions in strategies of education, research and extension, aiming at the application of Tele-health in Brazil...

BACKGROUND Telemonitoring of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) is an emerging concept to detect early warning signs of impending acute decompensation in order to prevent hospitalization. OBJECTIVE The goal of the MOBIle TELemonitoring in Heart Failure Patients Study (MOBITEL) was to evaluate the impact of home-based telemonitoring using Internet and mobile phone technology on the outc...

Tele-sağlık hem uzun de kısa mesafelerde hizmet sağlayıcıları ve / veya alıcılar arasında fiziksel bir ayrımın olduğu durumlarda sağlık hizmetleri sunmak için bilgi iletişim teknolojilerinin kullanılması olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Tele-sağlık, hizmetlerinin tanı, tedavi, önleyici iyileştirici yönlerini kapsamakta alıcıları, birincil diğer bakıcıları, uzmanları eğitimcileri içermektedir. Günümüzde...