Teleconsultation for endoscopic diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases--concepts and architecture of the service ENDOTEL
This paper introduces ENDOTEL as a new project in telemedicine, aiming to reduce local disadvantages in medical health care in rural areas. The progressing specialization in medicine results in a concentration of experts in few medical centers and to deficits of expert knowledge in rural areas, whic...
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Published in | Studies in health technology and informatics Vol. 68; p. 234 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Netherlands
1999
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Summary: | This paper introduces ENDOTEL as a new project in telemedicine, aiming to reduce local disadvantages in medical health care in rural areas. The progressing specialization in medicine results in a concentration of experts in few medical centers and to deficits of expert knowledge in rural areas, which remain as a domain of unspecialized physicians. ENDOTEL expands the conventional synchronous telemedical communication, which usually means videoconference, by an asynchronous multimedia communication and its resulting advantages. ENDOTEL breaks up with the need that participants have to be present simultaneously. |
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ISSN: | 0926-9630 |
DOI: | 10.3233/978-1-60750-912-7-234 |