Background Developing countries need telemedicine applications that help in many
situations, when physicians are a small number with respect to the population, when …

The majority of the focus related to the modernization of medical records is placed on
developed countries. However, developing countries are also progressing from paper …

The rapid growth of investment in information technology (IT) by organizations worldwide
has made user acceptance an increasingly critical technology implementation and …

In rural and sparsely populated countries, telemedicine can be a vital and life-saving link to
health care, and in those regions where demands on hospitals are ever increasing, it can …

Telecommunications bring the potential to improve both the quality of and access to health
care in the remotest areas of the developing world. Telemedicine offers solutions for …

Telemedicine has the potential to help facilitate the delivery of health services to rural areas.
In the right circumstances, telemedicine may also be useful for the delivery of education and …

This article presents three studies dealing with information and communication needs in
rural primary health care from Peru and Nicaragua. Results show that primary health-care …

In July 1999, the Swinfen Charitable Trust in the UK established a telemedicine link in
Bangladesh, between the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Dhaka and …

While there are significant potential advantages and benefits fromtelemedicine, the
evidence of its cost-effectiveness and sustainability is meagre. This is because much of the …

The Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine Group of the Technical University of Madrid
and the nongovernmental organization engineering without frontiers are leading the" …