Collaborative Telepathology in a Statewide Telemedicine Environment - First Tests in the Context of the Brazilian Public Healthcare System
| Autor: | Maria Inês Meurer, Dirk Krechel, Vinícius Andreóli Petrolini, Eduardo Beckhauser, Aldo von Wangenheim, Alexandre Savaris |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Telemedicine
Multimedia Learnability Process (engineering) Computer science 05 social sciences Context (language use) Telehealth computer.software_genre 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Videoconferencing 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Telepathology computer 050107 human factors Virtual microscopy |
| Zdroj: | CBMS |
| Popis: | Telepathology systems (TPS) can improve and accelerate the process of diagnosis, particularly in those complex cases where the second expert/specialized opinion is required. To support scenarios involving complex cases, a TPS must provide collaborative virtual microscopy and communication between pathologists to accelerate and improve the process of reporting, while guaranteeing a good degree of image quality in order to enable the evaluation of microscopic details. The development of TPSs in large telemedicine environments has not yet been addressed properly. With this problematic in mind, we developed a TPS within the Santa Catarina State Integrated Telemedicine and Telehealth System (STT/SC), that allows pathologists to report pathology cases employing a collaborative environment with audio/video conferencing and that simulates a virtual multi-headed microscopy. To prove the concept of our system we performed a case study with pathologists from different institutions countrywide and applied an evaluation using the AdEQUATE Model. Our system scored good results, especially regarding its effectiveness, learnability, and comfort. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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