Online Collaboration Environments in Telemedicine Applications of Speech Therapy

Author

Pierrakeas, C. ; Georgopoulos, V.C. ; Malandraki, G.A.

Author_Institution

Laboratory of Educ. Material & Educ. Methodology, Hellenic Open Univ., Patras

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2183

Lastpage

2186

Abstract

The use of telemedicine in speech and language pathology provides patients in rural and remote areas with access to quality rehabilitation services that are sufficient, accessible, and user-friendly leading to new possibilities in comprehensive and long-term, cost-effective diagnosis and therapy. This paper discusses the use of online collaboration environments for various telemedicine applications of speech therapy which include online group speech therapy scenarios, multidisciplinary clinical consulting team, and online mentoring and continuing education

Keywords

medical computing; patient treatment; speech; teleconferencing; telemedicine; continuing education; multidisciplinary clinical consulting team; online collaboration environments; online mentoring; rehabilitation services; speech therapy; telemedicine; Auditory system; Bandwidth; Costs; Hardware; Medical treatment; Natural languages; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Speech analysis; Telemedicine; Videoconference; Online Collaboration Environments; Telemedicine; speech therapy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616895

Filename

1616895