Telepathology on the Solomon Islands—two years’ experience with a hybrid Web- and email-based telepathology system
| Autor: | G Phillips, R Jagilly, Martin Oberholzer, N Hurwitz, K.D. Kunze, Kurt Brauchli, H. Oberli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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business.product_category Electronic Mail 020205 medical informatics Referral business.industry Telepathology Health Informatics 02 engineering and technology Electronic mail Preliminary diagnosis World Wide Web 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Median time 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Internet access Humans Medicine The Internet Melanesia 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 10:14-17 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1109 1357-633X |
| DOI: | 10.1258/1357633042614249 |
| Popis: | The National Referral Hospital in Honiara, Solomon Islands, has used an Internet-based system in Switzerland for telepathology consultations since September 2001. Due to the limited bandwidth of Internet connections on the Solomon Islands, an email interface was developed that allows users in Honiara to submit cases and receive reports by email. At the other end, consultants can use a more sophisticated Web-based interface that allows discussion of cases among an expert panel. The result is a hybrid email- and Web-based telepathology system. Over two years, 333 consultations were performed, in which 94% of cases could be diagnosed by a remote pathologist. A computer-assisted ‘virtual institute’ of pathologists was established. This form of organization helped to reduce the median time from submission of the request to a report from 28 h to 8.5 h for a preliminary diagnosis and 13h for a final report. A final report was possible in 77% of all submitted cases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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