Google Glass is a wearable sensor presented to facilitate access to information and assist while performing complex tasks. Despite the withdrawal of Google in supporting the product, today there are multiple applications and much research analyzing the potential impact of this technology in different fields of medicine. Google Glass satisfies the need of managing and having rapid access to real...

Medical consultation (patient-doctor encounter), consisting of history taking, physical examination and treatment, is the starting point of any contact between doctor and patient. Learning to conduct a consultation is a complex skill. Both communicative and medical contents need to be applied and integrated. Conducting an adequate consultation is a skill which is gradually learned and perfected...

Because of the continuously growing elderly population and annually declining birth rate, the population structure faces major changes, creating problems regarding medical care and healthcare. To address these problems, this study proposes a tele-homecare system that combines wireless sensors and transmission technologies to provide simple physiological data analysis and remote health managemen...

BACKGROUND Patients scheduled for major elective noncardiac surgery frequently undergo preoperative medical consultations. However, the factors that determine whether individuals undergo consultation and the extent of interhospital variation remain unclear. METHODS The authors used population-based administrative databases to conduct a cohort study of patients, aged 40 yr or older, who underw...

The consultation has been described as the most important part of Medicine. The Doctor-Patient Relationship is considered to depend on the trust of the patient in the doctor. This paper seeks to explore fundamental requirements of the consultation by exploring empathy, integrity, and the understanding of the human self, using concepts taken from Neuroscience, Group Analysis, Philosophy and Theo...