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

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32046699

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.