6.6. Teledermatology in Switzerland

Cipolat, Claudio; Bader, Urs; Rufli, T; Burg, Günter

doi:10.1159/000067350

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“…[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Five studies were observational. 7,14-17 Six studies were analytic, one was a controlled intervention study, 13 and the other five were descriptive studies.…”

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“…Learning effect was not measured in a quantitative way, but the studies qualitatively described that a learning effect was experienced by the participants through, for example, the refreshing of old knowledge and the sharing of new concepts, 9 a dermatological quiz, 10 and the presentation and discussion of difficult cases. 7,11,14,17 Cost aspects were mentioned in five studies. No study performed a cost analysis.…”

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Tertiary Teledermatology: A Systematic Review

Heijden

Spuls

Voorbraak

et al. 2010

Telemedicine and e-Health

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Telemedicine is becoming widely used in healthcare. Dermatology, because of its visual character, is especially suitable for telemedicine applications. Most common is teledermatology between general practitioners and dermatologists (secondary teledermatology). Another form of the teledermatology process is communication among dermatologists (tertiary teledermatology). The objective of this systematic review is to give an overview of studies on tertiary teledermatology with emphasis on the categories of use. A systematic literature search on tertiary teledermatology studies used all databases of the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE (1966-November 2007) and EMBASE (1980-November 2007). Categories of use were identified for all included articles and the modalities of tertiary teledermatology were extracted, together with technology, the setting the outcome measures, and their results. The search resulted in 1,377 publications, of which 11 were included. Four categories of use were found: getting an expert opinion from a specialized, often academic dermatologist (6/11); resident training (2/11); continuing medical education (4/11); and second opinion from a nonspecialized dermatologist (2/11). Three modalities were found: a teledermatology consultation application (7/11), a Web site (2/11), and an e-mail list (1/11). The majority (7/11) used store-and-forward, and 3/11 used store-and-forward and real-time. Outcome measures mentioned were learning effect (6), costs (5), diagnostic accuracy (1), validity (2) and reliability (2), patient and physician satisfaction (1), and efficiency improvement (3). Tertiary teledermatology's main category of use is getting an expert opinion from a specialized, often academic dermatologist. Tertiary teledermatology research is still in early development. Future research should focus on identifying the scale of tertiary teledermatology and on what modality of teledermatology is most suited for what purpose in communication among dermatologists.

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Tertiary Teledermatology: A Systematic Review

Heijden

Spuls

Voorbraak

et al. 2010

Telemedicine and e-Health

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“…There is a high potential for training of medical personnel in less developed countries, which may have Internet access but no print media available. One of the programmes approved through many years is dermaNT in Switzerland, connecting between 10 and more than 50 specialists in Switzerland once a week at a given time [5, 18]. This programme was pioneered and promoted especially by Theo Rufli, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology in Basel over the past decade.…”

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Teledermatology: Just Cool or a Real Tool?

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Telemedicine is the practice of healthcare using interactive audio, visual and data communication. This includes healthcare delivery, diagnoses, consultation and treatment as well as education and transfer of medical data. The transmission of multimedia streams has remained a major challenge. Although the Internet remains basically insecure, technology allows today to define and implement complete security profiles for specific (medical) communities. Data security is a must as in all other areas of applied medicine. Teledermatology offers possibilities in consulting, continuous medical education or teleteaching. In the future, consulting and asking for a second opinion will be the gold standard of medical care. The quality of healthcare will be improved without saving direct costs. However, indirect costs such as time and effort for the patient and the citizen will be reduced.

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“…Compression to the Automatic Discrimination of Histological Images of Skin Lesions M. Wiltgen 1 , A. Gerger 2 , C. Wagner 1 , P. Bergthaler 2 , J. Smolle 2…”

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“…To improve and shorten the access of the dermatologist (which are often concentrated in a few medical centres) to patient information, teledermatology has been implemented in several countries [1][2][3]. In teledermatology the images are exchanged via a network, enabling physicians at remote sites to obtain support from specialists in medical centres.…”

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confidence: 99%