Experience of Supporting Telemedicine Networks With the Collegium System: First 6 Years.

ABSTRACT: The Collegium system was first made available in 2012 to support organizations conducting humanitarian or non-commercial telemedicine work in low resource settings. It provides the technical infrastructure necessary to establish a store-and-forward telemedicine service. During the subsequent 6 years a total of 46 networks were established, based on the Collegium infrastructure. The majority of the networks were set up to provide a clinical service (33), with six designed for education and training, and the remainder for test or administrative purposes. Of the potentially operational networks which were set up (i.e., those established for clinical or educational purposes), 15 networks (38%) were stillborn and did not handle a single case after being established. In contrast, the two most ac

SUBMITTER: Wootton R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712066 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature