• 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