BACKGROUND Audio/video-mediated communication between patients and clinicians using videoconferencing over telecommunication networks is a key component of providing teletreatments in rehabilitation. OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to (1) document the conditions of use, performance, and reliability of videoconferencing-based communication in the context of in-home teletreatment (T...

Many studies have indicated that computing technology can enable off-site cardiologists to read patients' electrocardiograph (ECG), echocardiography (ECHO), and relevant images via smart phones during pre-hospital, in-hospital, and post-hospital teleconsultation, which not only identifies emergency cases in need of immediate treatment, but also prevents the unnecessary re-hospitalizations. Mean...

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Using the practice of embedded librarianship, a professor from Graduate School Education and Librarian at Rutgers, The State University New Jersey collaborated to investigate its impact on inherent transactional distance that exists in an online graduate course. Michael G. Moore’s three relational distances existing environment—“teacher-student,” “student-student,” “student-course content”—the ...

PURPOSE To evaluate a tele-education system developed to improve diagnostic competency in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) by ophthalmologists-in-training in Mexico. DESIGN Prospective, randomized cohort study. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-eight ophthalmology residents and fellows from a training program in Mexico consented to participate. Twenty-nine of 58 trainees (50%) were randomized to the educa...

Function and evolution of tele-enhancers ABSTRACT We investigated discriminating features between enhancers separated from their target genes by at least one intermediate gene/exon (named tele-enhancers in this study) and enhancers residing inside the target gene locus. In this study, we used genome-scale enhancer maps and whole-genome gene expression profiles to establish a large panel of hear...

Telemedicine itself is not the medical profession, it is not a medical specialty, but the way in which the medical profession conduct its activity. Therefore we are talking about tele otorhinolaryngology, tele cardiology or tele pathology. In the definition of a multitude of telemedicine that can be found in the literature is the following: Telemedicine is a system that supports the process of ...