Telehealth technology: Potentials, challenges and research directions for developing Countries

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 63, Issue , 2018, Pages 523-528

  Raza, M ^a   Hoa Le, M ^a   Aslam, N ^a   Hieu Le, C ^b   Tam Le, N ^c   Ly Le, T ^d  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Internet of things; Medical technology; Telehealth; Video encoding

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEALTH CARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET OF THINGS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPLEX SIGNAL PROCESSING; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; TELEHEALTH; TELEHEALTH TECHNOLOGIES; VIDEO ENCODINGS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 85030833280     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4361-1_89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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