BACKGROUND Decentralised services using outreach clinics or modern technology are methods to reduce both patient transports and costs to the healthcare system. Telemedicine consultations via videoconference are one such modality. Before new technologies are implemented, it is important to investigate both the quality of care given and the economic impact from the use of this new technology. The...

OBJECTIVE Early studies of plastic surgery patient triage using telemedicine are descriptive and deal with feasibility rather than accuracy. The inpatient study arm compares on-site wound-evaluation accuracy with remotely viewed digital images. The outpatient arm prospectively compares on-site and remote diagnosis, management, and outcomes in a busy, urban, reconstructive-surgery clinic. The co...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is a test to measure the electrical activities of the heart by applying electrical impulses. This paper proposed a remote ECG simulation to assisting vital signs in healthcare, namely ECG Simulation using Fourier Series approximation. A single period of an ECG signal that contains P, Q, R, S, T and U waves is in sinusoidal/triangular shapes, periodic and satisf...

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 ...

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...

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...