9781586038069
Current principles and practices of telemedicine and e-health.
Ed. by Rifat Latifi.
IOS Press
2008
287 pages
$161.00
Hardcover
Studies in health technology and informatics; no.131
R858
How is long-distance delivery of health care faring in developing
countries? In these 20 articles contributors help practitioners,
administrators, policy makers and technical professionals keep track of
current ideas and applications. Along with a narrative on the
development of a virtual hospital in the Balkans, topics include the art
of integrating telemedicine and e-health, what to do and what not to do
when establishing telemedicine and e-health facilities, last challenges
and barriers, creating telehealth networks from existing
infrastructures, satellite technology, changing to a paperless hospital,
telemedicine in extreme conditions such as disasters and war,
technologies for complex and critical care, intensive care telemedicine,
and clinical application s(including neurosciences, primary health care.
home health and the new patient, rehabilitation, wounds, pathology,
dermatology and oncology. Final articles cover medicine on the Internet
and telepresence and telemedicine in trauma and emergency.
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