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• QUESTION 14-1/2
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• PART 1 – Background
  • 1 Terminology and scope: brief overview
    • 1.1 Definition
    • 1.2 Terminology
    • 1.3 Scope
    • 1.4 Telemedicine – charity or business
    • 1.5 Some issues on ehealth/telemedicine policy for developing countries
    • 1.6 From theory to practice
    • 1.7 ITU e-health expert training course at Tokai University
  • 2 Common e-health applications
    • 2.1 Why is telemedicine expanding at this time?
    • 2.2 Developments in telemedicine
    • 2.3 Digital imaging in pathology
    • 2.4 Teledermatology
  • 3 Telecommunication infrastructure
    • 3.1 Overview of telecommunication infrastructure for telemedicine
    • 3.2 Satellite-based telemedicine practices
  • 4 Standardization in ehealth and interoperability problems
    • 4.1 Integrating telemedicine systems for e-health
      • 4.1.1 Interoperability issues in telemedicine systems
      • 4.1.2 Implementing distributed ehealth applications using HL7 and CORBA
      • 4.1.3 Implementation strategy
      • 4.1.4 The strategy selected
    • 4.2 Interoperability considerations for ehealth in developing countries
    • 4.3 Standardization activities
      • 4.3.1 Current situation in ehealth standardization
      • 4.3.2 ITU standardization activities in telemedicine
  • 5 Project design for ehealth
  • 6 How to make a telemedicine/ehealth project sustainable – The example of Japan
    • I Introduction
    • II Estimation method
    • III Cost-benefit analysis
    • IV Cost-sharing among parties
    • V Conclusion
• PART 2 – Lessons learnt – Successful stories from developing countries and regions
  • 1 Bangladesh
  • 2 Bhutan
  • 3 Bulgaria
  • 4 Cambodia
  • 5 Ethiopia – Telemedicine pilot project
  • 6 Georgia
  • 7 Greece – Maternity Telemedicine Services in the Aegean Islands
  • 8 India
  • 9 Indonesia
  • 10 Kenya – Methodology applied by ITU for the development of the Telemedicine Project “The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria”
  • 11 Kosova
  • 12 Mali
  • 13 Malta
  • 14 Mozambique
  • 15 Nepal
  • 16 Pakistan
  • 17 Papua New Guinea – “Connecting Rural PNG to Information Age through Sustainable Engineering Solution”
  • 18 Peru – CARDIOCELL B138: Biomedical signal transmission via cellular mobile network
  • 19 Russian Federation – A complex telemedicine system of the disasters medicine survey to provide medical relief to the population during the elimination of consequences of emergency situations
  • 20 South Africa
  • 21 Turkey
  • 22 Ukraine – Experience and results of teleconsultations in daily clinical practice
• Annex 1– Resolution 41 (ISTANBUL, 2002) – E- health (including telehealth/telemedicine)