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- Title
A review of seven years' telecardiology experience.
- Authors
Scalvini, Simonetta; Mazzù, Marco; Giordano, Amerigo; Zanelli, Emanuela; Piemontese, Carlo; Fedele, Francesco; Glisenti, Fulvio
- Abstract
We have reviewed a multidisciplinary, home-based, telecardiology service which has been used for follow-up of patients discharged early from hospital. In seven years of activity 12,576 calls have been received by 896 cardiac patients following the home based telecardiology programme: 239 patients with acute cardiac syndrome, 427 patients with chronic heart failure and 230 patients with arrhythmia. Follow-up ranged from 7–180 days. From the user's first contact with the call centre to the recording of the report took a mean time of 7–10 min. The telemedicine service is provided by a total of 14 service centre operators, 49 medical specialists, 39 nurses and 4 physiotherapists. In our experience, Web services are ideal to develop and to manage telemedicine services.
- Subjects
TELEMEDICINE; COMPUTER technical support; DATA processing service centers; MEDICAL specialties &; specialists; TELEMATICS
- Publication
Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare, 2007, Vol 13, Issue 5, p50
- ISSN
1357-633X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1258/135763307781644997