Building an Information Quality Lab on e-health in the rural areas for healthcare education

Author

Su, Ying ; Soar, Jeffrey

Author_Institution

Inf. Quality Lab., Inst. of Sci. & Tech. Inf., Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

17-18 April 2010

Firstpage

332

Lastpage

335

Abstract

The Information Quality Lab (IQL) is planned to develop low cost movable/mobile community e-health system for rural area. The system is built on the wireless LAN technology known as WiFi, which is the standard developed by the IEEE 802 Committee. Research framework and implementation phases in the IQL will be described in this paper. The national survey and analysis on the telecommunications environment and the needs of rural communities of the developing countries conducted by IQL will be briefly introduced. The future perspective for the development of rural communications including the applications of e-health care will also be discussed.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; health care; public administration; wireless LAN; IEEE 802 committee; Information Quality Lab; WiFi; developing country; healthcare education; mobile community e-health system; movable community e-health system; rural area; rural communication; telecommunication environment; wireless LAN technology; Australia; Communication standards; Costs; Ecosystems; Educational technology; Electronic mail; Information systems; Medical services; Standards development; Wireless LAN; e-health; rural area; telecommunications; wireless LAN technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Health Networking, Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (EDT), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5514-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDT.2010.5496355

Filename

5496355