Telemedicine has seen a recent surge in utilization with the current global Coronavirus pandemic. Prior to this increase in use, its application has been proven to be both safe and effective in primary care and surgical medicine. Its value has been demonstrated for utilization in both initial consultation and post-operative evaluation of orthopedic surgery patients, especially those with pathol...

INTRODUCTION This study investigated whether increased numbers of primary healthcare clinical consultations in Indigenous communities in some remote areas of Australia are associated with the reduced need for urgent medical evacuations and remote telephone consultations. METHODS A retrospective comparison study of routinely collected data utilising correlation analysis was conducted. Statisti...

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth living in far north Queensland in relation to sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and safe sex. METHODS Community consultation followed by local recruitment of a sample of young people who, in a facilitated same gender focus group setting, completed a questionnaire followed ...

The system has been specifically developed to manage nursing operation of a multi ward cardiology department. Main characteristics of the system are: internet access technology; data integration in the Hospital Information System by using a specific middleware; local or remote DBMS enquired by SQL. The system is based on a "Client-Server" architecture referring to a centralized data base, insta...

In order to meet the needs of modern agriculture, with the internet of things and related technologies, the author has developed a set of agricultural condition monitoring and diagnosing of integrated platform for experiment. The platform used the client and server mode, include environmental factor of monitoring platform, intelligent decision sub platform and expert remote science and technolo...

BACKGROUND Teleophthalmology, particularly real-time video consultation, holds great potential in Australia and similar countries worldwide, where geography, population and medical workforce distribution make it difficult to provide specialist eye services outside of major cities. Assessment and referrals from rural optometrists are vital to the success of teleophthalmology. While there is good...

In this paper we present the design and the implementation of an interactive environment for cooperative teleworking. Telemathea ooers tools that support the communication and the teleworking between tutor and trainee, who may reside in remote geographical regions. This environment ooers audio communication over the network as well as support for joint editing of text documents and still images...

Background China has the largest numbers of cancer patients worldwide but has limited pathology resources. According to a survey done by Chinese Pathologists Association, a large number of pathologists in clinical practice in China has only one year of formal or informal training. Only in recent year, formal pathology residency programs similar to those of Western countries are available in a c...