{"title":"Social networks, apps and smartphones for telemedicine","authors":"A. Giorgio","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2016.077436","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with a telemedicine method for the execution of remote medical visits with mobile devices. To this aim, a new app has been developed by the author that uses the facilities of the well-known social network Facebook and other already existing smartphone's apps and web-apps. This paper describes how to use social network and smartphone apps for telemedicine purposes, the method capabilities and guidelines for a remote medical visit.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2016.077436","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper deals with a telemedicine method for the execution of remote medical visits with mobile devices. To this aim, a new app has been developed by the author that uses the facilities of the well-known social network Facebook and other already existing smartphone's apps and web-apps. This paper describes how to use social network and smartphone apps for telemedicine purposes, the method capabilities and guidelines for a remote medical visit.