| Author | Siriwan Suebnukarn |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.IM-01-11 |
| Subject(s) | Telecommunication in medicine
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Science, School of Advanced Technologies
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| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. IM-01-11 |
| Abstract | In most countries public health is stepping towards an economic cns1s. Extensive
competition thus challenges healthcare organizations to redesign their business. Ecollaborative telemedicine has the potential to offer new distribution channels to healthcare
services. At present, there are several applications of collaborative telemedicine already in
the market. However, most of the previous work has focused on either synchronous (all the
physicians interact simultaneously) or asynchronous (non-simultaneous interaction)
collaborative communication, and designed only for intra-hospital communication through
LANs. The challenge now is to extend these systems on a national or continental Health
Care System, which includes not only a few big hospitals but also several regional and
local ones. The main contribution of this work is in building the system for teleconsultation
through synchronous and asynchronous collaborative communication. The system is a Java
client/server combination, which can be used for teleconsultation over the Internet or local
networks. The system has been designed with structure and technologies that make it
platform-independent and user-friendly. Finally, it should be pointed out from the
prototype implementation that the reduction of the consultation time and the patient
waiting time for operation gives immediate feedback of the augmented quality of
healthcare service. |
| Year | 2001 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. IM-01-11 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Information Management (IM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Vatcharaporn Esichaikul; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Haddawy, Peter;Sadananda, Ramakoti ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Thammasat University ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2001 |