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The Layout of Our Outpatient Internet, Web-Based System, Which Provides Telemedicine Connection for Patients by Skype in a Safe System
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Background: New approaches on outpatient control are required and need testing to motivate and give feedback to the patients
at home. Telemedicine has the capacity to achieve this, optimizing care through motivation and direct feedback adapted to milieu
of the patient and at the same time to keep the total cost at a reasonable level.
Objectives: We...
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... of clinically proven technologies in educa- tion include various types of Internet portals or web-based systems (7), mobile phones (5), computer game for teach- ing children with diabetes, small text-based patient termi- nals (2), and various telemedicine initiatives to ensure and improve communication between patient and therapist or between different therapists (Figure 1). Whether the focus is on telemedicine or not, medical informatics, IT-based ed- ucation or telemedicine treatment of complications; the majority of experimental studies conclude that technolog- ical interventions are feasible and accepted by patients and clinical staff (2,8). ...
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Diabetic retinopathy is prevalent among American adults with diabetes. Tight control of glycemic levels, BP, and lipids can help reduce patients' risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, which can lead to severe visual loss and blindness if not treated. Teleophthalmology done in primary care offi ces can increase the number of patients who are screened, saving patients' vision through early detection and treatment of diabetic retinopathy.
