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Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused significant transformations in healthcare. Many countries began the rapid development and adoption of telemedicine to avoid the spread of the pandemic and created an innovative model for healthcare delivery. This study identified the critical antecedents that affected the considered healthcare outcomes via teleophthalmology in Eastern Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This study's participants included residents of five towns in Taitung County who had experience with teleophthalmology. This study analyzed the structured questionnaires completed by the participants to validate the proposed research framework. Statistical methods were used to verify the research models, including descriptive statistical analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. The date of this study was from 1 October 2020 to 31 July 2023. Results: The results of this study reveal that the average monthly use of teleophthalmology by individuals in rural areas increased annually. Females tended to utilize teleophthalmology services more than males. There were no significant differences across any of the constructs with respect to age or educational level. Additionally, the patients' awareness of healthcare accessibility via and the communication quality of teleophthalmology simultaneously affected teleophthalmology's adoption and service quality, which in turn jointly affected health outcomes. Both healthcare accessibility and communication quality were the antecedents of the healthcare outcomes. The health outcomes refer to the impact of teleophthalmology on the quality of the patients' health and well-being. Additionally, teleophthalmology's adoption and service quality acted as mediators. Conclusions: This study's findings are expected to increase attention to the healthcare outcomes and antecedents of teleophthalmology to promote better telemedicine practices and services for rural residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2005.01.003 Byline: Yao-Wen Huang (a)(b), Chung-Hung Tsai (b), Tsung-Po Lin (b), Shih-Kun Huang (a)(c), D.T. Lee (a)(b)(c), Sy-Yen Kuo (a)(b) Abstract: The rapid development phases and extremely short turnaround time of Web applications make it difficult to eliminate their vulnerabilities. Here we study how software testing techniques such as fault injection and runtime monitoring can be applied to Web applications. We implemented our proposed mechanisms in the Web Application Vulnerability and Error Scanner (WAVES) -- a black-box testing framework for automated Web application security assessment. Real-world situations are used to test WAVES and to compare it with other tools. Our results show that WAVES is a feasible platform for assessing Web application security. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan (b) Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan (c) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Article Note: (footnote) [star] Supported by the NCERT project (No. 910444) of Institute for Information Industry, sponsored by Ministry of Economic Affairs, and by the National Science Council under the grants No. NSC 92-2422-H-001-004, NSC-93-2213-E-002-122, NSC-93-2213-E-001-013, NSC-93-2422-H-001-0001, and NSC-93-2752-E-002-005-PAE.