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 …

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summary Between 1996 and 2003, a network of 85 telehealth videoconference sites was
implemented in Western Australia (WA), together with 19 teleradiology facilities. Telehealth …

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 …

Physicians, hospitals and medical schools have been exploring the uses of telemedicine
since 1964, primarily in the area of medical education. While the explosion of interest in …

While telemedicine programme objectives, technologies and even philosophies will differ,
certain common factors that enhance programme success can be identified. For example, a …

Telemedicine is a technology of the future, available today. Here, we describe successful
telemedicine systems used across Australia and review barriers to further implementation …

It is recognized that health care in rural communities could be improved significantly with the
assistance of telehealth, the term by which the combined application of computer and …

A national telemedicine system for South Africa was planned in 1998. In the first phase,
starting in 1999, 28 pilot sites were established in six provinces. The initial applications were …

Objective. A literature review was conducted to identify the reported benefits attributed to
telehealth for people living and professionals working in rural and remote areas of Australia …