Telehealth Technology: Potentials, Challenges and Research Directions for Developing Countries
Telehealth has been developed and successfully applied in clinical practices, gained a strong interest and demonstrated its usefulness for medical diagnosis, treatments and rehabilitation worldwide. The advent of high speed communication technology and co
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Abstract
Telehealth has been developed and successfully applied in clinical practices, gained a strong interest and demonstrated its usefulness for medical diagnosis, treatments and rehabilitation worldwide. The advent of high speed communication technology and complex signal processing techniques, and recent advancements in cloud and cognitive computing, has created a new wave of opportunities for delivering remote healthcare applications and services, where the cost-effective diagnosis and treatment solutions as well as healthcare services are important and need to be deployed widely. Nevertheless, there is still a significant challenge in fully adopting this technology due to asymmetry among the healthcare centers, hospitals and the user-ends, especially in developing countries. This paper provides an overview of the telehealth, then to addresses the possible telehealth technologies and applications that could be applied to improve the healthcare service performance, with the focus on the developing countries. The incorporation of different technologies in telehealth including, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud and cognitive computing, medical image processing and effective encoding is introduced and discussed. Finally, the possible research directions, challenges for the efficient telehealth, and potential research and technology collaborations are outlined. Keywords
Telehealth
Internet of things
1 M. Raza (&) M. Hoa Le N. Aslam Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle City Campus, 2 Ellison Pl, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK e-mail: [email protected] C. Hieu Le Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Kent, UK N. Tam Le IBM Cloud, IBM Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam T. Ly Le School of Biotechnology, International University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Video encoding
Medical technology
Introduction
Telehealth technology provides assistance for healthcare services that connect the inhabitants of rural areas to the provision of acceptable health care facilities. In the existing healthcare infrastructures, a conventional process for medical check-up is illustrated in Fig. 1. In this process, a patient needs to visit a clinic where the front desk registration and collection of vital signs (blood pressure, temperature etc.) takes place. Afterwards, the patient is assigned a time slot for doctor or specialist inspection, which results in medical prescription (including medicines, laboratory tests, revisits etc.) or further examinations. The patient’s medical records
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are also updated to the service databank. Nevertheless, the availability of qualified doctors/specialists and basic medical equipment is limited in rural areas of developing countries and likely one has to travel long distance to get proper medi
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