Will applications on smartphones allow a generalization of telemedicine?
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Date publication
février 2020
Journal
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr QUANTIN Catherine
Tous les auteurs :
Allaert FA, Legrand L, Abdoul Carime N, Quantin C
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Résumé
Telemedicine is one of the healthcare sectors that has developed the most in recent years. Currently, telemedicine is mostly used for patients who have difficulty attending medical consultations because of where they live (teleconsultation) or for specialist referrals when no specialist of a given discipline is locally available (telexpertise). However, the use of specific equipment (with dedicated cameras, screens, and computers) and the need for institutional infrastructure made the deployment and use of these systems expensive and rigid. Although many telemedicine systems have been tested, most have not generally gone beyond local projects. Our hypothesis is that the use of smartphones will allow health care providers to overcome some of the limitations that we have exposed, thus allowing the generalization of telemedicine.
Mots clés
Cost effectiveness, Smartphones, Telemedicine
Référence
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2020 Feb 11;20(1):30