TY - GEN
T1 - A new telemedicine framework handling the emergency room overload
AU - Fengou, Maria Anna S.
AU - Panagiotakopoulos, Theodor C.
AU - Fengos, Spyros L.
AU - Lazarou, Nikolaos G.
AU - Lymberopoulos, Dimitrios K.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Nowadays, the rate of people incoming to the emergency room pointing a health problem is steadily increased. This paper introduces a new telemedicine framework that addresses this problem. It allows medical experts to estimate the real health condition of conditional (c-) patients, and then consult them to visit a hospital or not. This framework combines elements such as an expanded electronic medical record enriched with real time acquired context data as well as several actor's profiles. The framework's concept has taken into consideration the medical practice followed by the experts while addressing patients suffering from certain disorders.
AB - Nowadays, the rate of people incoming to the emergency room pointing a health problem is steadily increased. This paper introduces a new telemedicine framework that addresses this problem. It allows medical experts to estimate the real health condition of conditional (c-) patients, and then consult them to visit a hospital or not. This framework combines elements such as an expanded electronic medical record enriched with real time acquired context data as well as several actor's profiles. The framework's concept has taken into consideration the medical practice followed by the experts while addressing patients suffering from certain disorders.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79951664179&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687740
DO - 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687740
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951664179
SN - 9781424465606
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB
BT - ITAB 2010 - 10th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine
T2 - 10th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine: Emerging Technologies for Patient Specific Healthcare, ITAB 2010
Y2 - 2 November 2010 through 5 November 2010
ER -