Mobile phone support for rural health workers in Nepal through 'celemedicine'.
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Jan 1, 2013
This article describes a pilot mobile-phone-based support system (“celemedicine”) for mid-level rural health workers in Gulmi District, Nepal, enabling free calls to three general practitioner doctors at the district hospital. The intervention aims to improve appropriate referral and connectivity between peripheral…
New functions developed for ICU/CCU remote monitoring system using a 3G mobile phone and evaluations of the system.
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Jan 1, 2008
This conference paper describes development of new functions for an ICU/CCU remote monitoring system that uses a 3G mobile phone. The authors state that evaluations were performed on several different mobile phones and suggest the system has accuracy and real-time performance suitable for hospital adoption. The…
Chemotherapy side-effect management using mobile phones.
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Jan 1, 2008
This conference paper describes a mobile-phone telemedicine system for managing chemotherapy side-effects at home using symptom diaries and automated alerts to nurses. Six patients used the system for two cycles of oral chemotherapy. The abstract reports two instances where moderate symptoms deteriorated to more…