BACKGROUND In recent years, a number of technological advancements started to modify the long standing appearance and functionalities of traditional optical microscopes used in Pathology and other medical fields. In fact, at present many new tools for microscopical visualization exist that are based on digital imaging, robotization, and remote communication. Such tools are typically adopted in ...

Early Intervention (EI) services for children birth through two years of age are mandated by Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); however, personnel shortages, particularly in rural areas, limit access for children who qualify. Telerehabilitation has the potential to build capacity among caregivers and local providers as well as promote family-centered services thro...

We report here on applying a complementary tracking and twohanded interaction paradigm to remote medical consultation using a mobile hand-held device. The basic idea is to track the relative pose between the mobile device and an integrated but detachable “patient surrogate” such as the device cover, enabling 6 DOF visualization of streaming vision-based 3D reconstructions of a remote patient. T...

Telemedicine provides the opportunity to bring medical expertise to the bedside, even if the medical expert is not physically near the patient. Internet technology has facilitated telemedicine allowing for voice, video and other data to be exchanged between remote locations. To date, applications of telemedicine to anesthesia (Teleanesthesia) have been limited. Previous work by Cone et al., (An...

BACKGROUND Teleconsultation is a guarantor for virtual supervision of clinical professors on clinical decisions made by medical residents in teaching hospitals. Type, format, volume, and quality of exchanged information have a great influence on the quality of remote clinical decisions or tele-decisions. Thus, it is necessary to develop a reliable and standard model for these clinical relations...

I read Salisbury’s article on remote consultations with interest.1 The value many patients place their doctor’s ability to diagnose based clinical examination is interesting. have been the other side of consultation, hearing my relatives complain when “the doctor didn’t even examine me.” It a lesson all medical students: reassure after exam, not before. exam itself might …

The scandal of medical witnesses being retained on opposite sides in courts of law and crivin" what looks like partisan evidence is often the subject of remark and sneer, and it is mooted that if medical men cited as witnesses by opposing litigants were to meet in consultation before thecase came into court and were to arrive at some sort of agreement regarding the fact and the opinion founded ...