Telemedicine and developing countries

Laouyane, Ahmed

doi:10.1258/1357633981932064

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“…Furthermore, they have specific rules and regulations about telemedicine. Although telemedicine could be an effective approach to receiving health services in developing countries, telemedicine studies are still limited in these countries ( 69 , 70 ).…”

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Review of Systematic Reviews in the Field of Telemedicine

Goharinejad

Hajesmaeel-Gohari

Jannati

et al. 2021

Med. J. Islam. Republ. Iran

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Background: Although the systematic reviews regarding telemedicine have increased in recent decades, no comprehensive studies have been conducted to review these systematic reviews. The present study aimed to review the published systematic reviews regarding telemedicine applications for the report and appraisal of several aspects. Methods: The literature search was performed in the PubMed database for the systematic reviews published during January 2010-June 2020 in the field of telemedicine using “telemedicine” Mesh terms. The extracted data from the selected articles were the year of publication, telemedicine specialty, clinical outcomes, cost evaluation, and satisfaction assessment. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics. Results: Among 746 retrieved articles, 191 cases were selected and reviewed. Most of the studies were focused on telemedicine (n=35; 18.3%), followed by telerehabilitation (n=22; 11.5%), tele-diabetes (n=18; 9.4%), telecardiology (n=16; 8.3%), home telecare (n=13; 6.8%), telepsychiatry (n=12; 6.3%), teledermatology (n=11; 5.7%), and teleneurology (n=9; 4.7%). The selected studies were primarily focused on clinical outcomes (72.7%), followed by cost-effectiveness (32.4%) and user satisfaction (29.3%). In addition, they mostly indicated that telemedicine services yielded acceptable clinical outcomes (72.5%), cost-effectiveness (67.7%), and healthcare provider/patient satisfaction (83.9%). Conclusion: Although telerehabilitation, tele-diabetes, telecardiology, home telecare, and telepsychiatry were studied further, there are still some specific specialties such as teleradiology, telepathology, and telepediatric that should be considered more. Moreover, investigation of various outcomes could result in a more comprehensive view of this field. Therefore, further investigations in this regard would improve telemedicine applications and encourage potential telemedicine providers to initiate these applications.

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Review of Systematic Reviews in the Field of Telemedicine

Goharinejad

Hajesmaeel-Gohari

Jannati

et al. 2021

Med. J. Islam. Republ. Iran

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“…Telemedicine has a considerable role in pain management and care in patients with multiple sclerosis, phantom limb pain, and chronic pain by primary care physicians and psychologists (14). The cost-effectiveness of this approach, particularly in remote and rural regions, is advantageous (15). Latifi et al concluded that telemedicine is an optimal, continuous, and low cost for rebuilding medical systems in developing countries (16).…”

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The Brief Review on Telemedicine: New Dream in Developing Countries

Farzin

Sakha

Eslahi³

2021

Interv Pain Med Neuromod

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: In the new modern world, technology has a remarkable role in human life and affects all aspects of it. Indeed, the need for rapid counteractions, especially in medical requirements, can lead to interesting innovations. Telemedicine was disregarded for being an unwieldy, unreliable, and unaffordable technology. Rapidly evolving telecommunications and information technologies have provided a solid foundation for telemedicine as a feasible, dependable, and useful technology. Telemedicine has been conceived as an integrated system of healthcare delivery that employs telecommunications and computer technology as a substitute for face-to-face contact between provider and client. It has the potential for ameliorating seemingly intractable problems in healthcare such as limited access to care among segments in the population, especially the geographically disadvantaged, uneven quality of care, and cost of inflation. Its true merit has yet to be determined by systematic empirical studies. In another survey, the authors defined telemedicine as a branch of e-health, which works by communication networks and delivers healthcare and medical educations from remote locations. The main aim of telemedicine is to overcome the improper distribution of human and fundamental resources. Telemedicine could be considered from the viewpoint of two basic conditions: (1) as an alternative way for emergency services in remote locations and (2) it is a better option rather than conventional health services; for example, teleradiology for rural hospitals. It can result in appropriate availability of health services and acceptable efficiency. However, this aspect of medicine was considered in the late 1990, and then, developing countries have a long way for research about it.

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“…In the most developing countries, the existing methods of brain volume quantification have limited application and accessibility in remote areas [13]. The radiological images are distributed in printed films as 2-dimenstional achieved images making it very difficult for distant clinicians to execute quantitative evaluation of brain volume status for their patients [14]. Compact disc(CD) and digital versatile disc (DVD) image achieving is another emerging modality of disseminating post processed radiological images [15].…”

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confidence: 99%