The Alaska telemedicine testbed project (1996-2001): digital healthcare in a narrow bandwidth environment

Introduction: Hundreds of physicians go to remote places to provide service once in a week in district and sub district private health centers, rest of the days patients wait for their physicians for the next visit after 1week. There are no specialist ...

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 telemedicine over the past five or six years has seen an increase in the ...

Information and telecommunication technologies are called to play a major role in the changes that healthcare systems have to face to cope with chronic disease. This paper reports a telemedicine experience for the home care of chronic patients suffering ...