QUESTION 14-1/2
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
PART 1 – Background
1 Terminology and scope: brief overview
1.1 Definition
1.2 Terminology
1.3 Scope
1.4 Telemedicine – charity or business
1.5 Some issues on ehealth/telemedicine policy for developing countries
1.6 From theory to practice
1.7 ITU e-health expert training course at Tokai University
2 Common e-health applications
2.1 Why is telemedicine expanding at this time?
2.2 Developments in telemedicine
2.3 Digital imaging in pathology
2.4 Teledermatology
3 Telecommunication infrastructure
3.1 Overview of telecommunication infrastructure for telemedicine
3.2 Satellite-based telemedicine practices
4 Standardization in ehealth and interoperability problems
4.1 Integrating telemedicine systems for e-health
4.1.1 Interoperability issues in telemedicine systems
4.1.2 Implementing distributed ehealth applications using HL7 and CORBA
4.1.3 Implementation strategy
4.1.4 The strategy selected
4.2 Interoperability considerations for ehealth in developing countries
4.3 Standardization activities
4.3.1 Current situation in ehealth standardization
4.3.2 ITU standardization activities in telemedicine
5 Project design for ehealth
6 How to make a telemedicine/ehealth project sustainable – The example of Japan
I Introduction
II Estimation method
III Cost-benefit analysis
IV Cost-sharing among parties
V Conclusion
PART 2 – Lessons learnt – Successful stories from developing countries and regions
1 Bangladesh
2 Bhutan
3 Bulgaria
4 Cambodia
5 Ethiopia – Telemedicine pilot project
6 Georgia
7 Greece – Maternity Telemedicine Services in the Aegean Islands
8 India
9 Indonesia
10 Kenya – Methodology applied by ITU for the development of the Telemedicine Project “The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria”
11 Kosova
12 Mali
13 Malta
14 Mozambique
15 Nepal
16 Pakistan
17 Papua New Guinea – “Connecting Rural PNG to Information Age through Sustainable Engineering Solution”
18 Peru – CARDIOCELL B138: Biomedical signal transmission via cellular mobile network
19 Russian Federation – A complex telemedicine system of the disasters medicine survey to provide medical relief to the population during the elimination of consequences of emergency situations
20 South Africa
21 Turkey
22 Ukraine – Experience and results of teleconsultations in daily clinical practice
Annex 1– Resolution 41 (ISTANBUL, 2002) – E- health (including telehealth/telemedicine)