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Application of Telemedicine in Gansu Province of China
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 6, p e0158026 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Telemedicine has become an increasingly popular option for long-distance health care and continuing education. As information and communication technology is underdeveloped in China, telemedicine develops slowly. At present, telemedicine consultation centers are situated mainly in developed cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. In many less developed regions, such as northwest China, the conditions or related facilities are not available for the application of a better medical service. Accordingly, the aim of this paper was to introduce the construction and application of a telemedicine consultation center in Gansu Province in the northwest of China. In addition, the function of Gansu Provincial Telemedicine Consultation Center on emergency public events was introduced. As a whole, there was a great demand for telemedicine service in the local medical institutions. In the telemedicine consultation center, the telemedicine equipments and regulations were needed to be improved. The function of telemedicine service was not fully used, there was a large space to be applied and the publicity of telemedicine service was important. What is important was that telemedicine played a significance role in promoting the medical policy reform, improving the medical environment and launching the remote rescue in the emergency public events. This paper emphasizes the health care challenges of poor regions, and indicates how to share the high-quality medical service of provincial hospitals effectively and how to help residents in resource-poor environments.
- Subjects :
- Male
Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
020205 medical informatics
Medical Doctors
Health Care Providers
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Social Sciences
02 engineering and technology
Personal Satisfaction
Geographical Locations
0302 clinical medicine
Beijing
Surveys and Questionnaires
Health care
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Medicine and Health Sciences
030212 general & internal medicine
lcsh:Science
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Middle Aged
Hospitals
Telemedicine
Professions
Engineering and Technology
Female
Medical emergency
Publicity
Information Systems
Research Article
China
Asia
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Health Personnel
Equipment
Medical Services
03 medical and health sciences
Nursing
Physicians
medicine
Humans
Regulations
Service (business)
business.industry
Remote Consultation
lcsh:R
medicine.disease
Health Care
Information and Communications Technology
People and Places
lcsh:Q
Population Groupings
Law and Legal Sciences
Rural area
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d6c5aec7e9da9467f8d57decf78f2c4