Title: Social networks, apps and smartphones for telemedicine
Authors: Agostino Giorgio
Addresses: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione, Digital Electronic Systems and Applications Lab, Politecnico di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
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.
Keywords: telemedicine; Facebook; smartphone apps; smartphones; mobile devices; remote medical visits; social networks; healthcare technology.
DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2016.077436
International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2016 Vol.8 No.3, pp.183 - 195
Accepted: 24 Oct 2015
Published online: 30 Jun 2016 *