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• Making better access to healthcare services
  • Preface
  • Foreword by Makoto NAGAO
  • Foreword by Hamadoun TOURE
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • PART 1: Background
    • 1 Terminology and scope: brief overview
      • 1.1 Definition
      • 1.2 Terminology
      • 1.3 Scope
      • 1.4 Telemedecine-charity or business
      • 1.5 Some issues on e-health/telemedecine 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 telemedecine expanding at this time?
      • 2.2 Developments in telemedecine
      • 2.3 Digital imaging in pathology
      • 2.4 Teledermatology
    • 3 Telecommunication infrastructure
      • 3.1 Overview of telecommunication infrastructure for telemedecine
      • 3.2 Satellite-based telemedecine practices
      • 3.3 Successful usage of Communications Satellite for Supporting Medical Treatment in the Aftermath of Disasters
      • 3.4 A Decade History of PARTNERS Project
      • 3.5 Experiments on secure satellite communications for long distance image transmission
    • 4 Standardization in e-health and interoperability problems
      • 4.1 Integrating telemedecine systems for e-health
      • 4.2 Interoperability considerations for e-health in developing countries
      • 4.3 Standardization activities
        • 4.3.1 Current situation in e-health standardization
        • 4.3.2 ITU standardization activities in telemedecine
        • 4.3.3 TELEMEDECINE AND BIOMETRICS
        • 4.3.4 Metadata Standardization for Telemedecine
    • 5 Project Design for e-health
    • 6 How to make a telemedecine/e-health project sustainable
  • PART 2: CASE REPORT
    • 1 Bangladesh
    • 2 Bhutan
    • 3 Bulgaria
    • 4 Cambodia
    • 5 Ethiopia
    • 6 Georgia
    • 7 Greece
    • 8 India
    • 9 Indonesia
    • 10 Japan
    • 11 Kenya
    • 12 Kosovo
    • 13 Latvia
    • 14 Lithuania
    • 15 Mali
    • 16 Malta
    • 17 Mozambique
    • 18 Nepal
    • 19 The Pacific Open Learning Health Net
    • 20 Pakistan
    • 21 Papua New Guinea
    • 22 Peru
    • 23 Russian Federation
    • 24 Tanzania
    • 25 Turkey
    • 26 Ukraine
    • 27 Zambia
  • ANNEX 1: RESOLUTION 41 OF WTDC, ISTANBUL, 2002