ArticleUpdates in surgery2018
A tele-ultrasonographic platform to collect specialist second opinion in less specialized hospitals.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Identifying enablers and barriers to teleultrasound use for remote settings: A scoping review.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2025Review
- Augmented Reality in Real-time Telemedicine and Telementoring: Scoping Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Article
- Perceptions About Augmented Reality in Remote Medical Care: Interview Study of Emergency Telemedicine Providers.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- vid-SAMGRAH: A PyTorch framework for multi-latent space reinforcement learning driven video summarization in ultrasound imaging.Software impacts · 2021Article
- Offshore telementored ultrasound: a quality assessment study.The ultrasound journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
In non-urban scenarios: rural areas or small cities, there is often a limited access to specialistic healthcare due to the inherent challenges associated with recruitment, retention, and access to healthcare professionals. Telemedicine is an economical and effective way to address this problem. In this research, we developed a framework for real-time communication during ultrasound examination that combines interaction via standard video conference protocols and basic AR functionalities (commercial) and a custom-developed application. The tele-ultrasonographic platform has been installed in a rural hospital in the Tuscan Apennines, and was tested on 12 patients. The study explores the utility of the system from the local and remote clinician perspectives. The results obtained provide valuable insight: the platform and the telemedicine paradigm can reduce the costs related to the necessity to move critical patients when there is a need for a specialist second opinion. Moreover, the possibility of having an expert guiding and commenting on the fly the diagnostic examination has also a didactic power, and thus allows the local less specialized clinicians to grow in competencies over time.
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