DocumentCode :
472120
Title :
Mobile consultant: combining total mobility with constant access
Author :
Banitsas, Konstantinos A. ; Georgiadis, Pantelis ; Tachakra, Sapal ; Cavouras, Dionisis
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Design, Brunei Univ., London
fYear :
2006
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Firstpage :
5248
Lastpage :
5251
Abstract :
Minimizing the time required for a medical consultant to offer his/her expert opinion, can be viewed as a life-saving procedure. We have designed and tested an integrated system that will allow a medical consultant to freely move either within, or outside the hospital, while still maintaining constant contact with the patients via videoconferencing and high-resolution imaging. The above system is explained in this paper, along with its advantages and its potential limitations. Conclusively, we demonstrate that such a system further increases the mobility of the medical consultant, while improving the healthcare service
Keywords :
biomedical imaging; health care; medical computing; microcomputer applications; patient care; teleconferencing; telemedicine; expert opinion; healthcare service; high-resolution imaging; integrated system; life-saving procedure; mobile consultant; personal digital assistant; time minimisation; videoconferencing; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Cities and towns; Costs; Hardware; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Teleconferencing; USA Councils; Wireless networks;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
ISSN :
1557-170X
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260600
Filename :
4462988
Link To Document :
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