title: Mobile consultant: combining total mobility with constant access.
abstract: Minimizing the time required for a medical consultant to offer his/her expert opinion, can be viewed as a life-saving procedure. We have designed and tested an integrated system that will allow a medical consultant to freely move either within, or outside the hospital, while still maintaining constant contact with the patients via videoconferencing and high-resolution imaging. The above system is explained in this paper, along with its advantages and its potential limitations. Conclusively, we demonstrate that such a system further increases the mobility of the medical consultant, while improving the healthcare service.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering & Design, E&CE, Brunel University, West London, England.
authors.forename: Konstantinos A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Banitsas
authors.forename: Pantelis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Georgiadis
authors.forename: Sapal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tachakra
authors.forename: Dionisis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cavouras
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D003253:Consultants; D004867:Equipment Design; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019114:Remote Consultation; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D019112:Teleradiology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D049269:Videoconferencing / Q000295:instrumentation*