AIMC Topic: Rural Health Services

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The Use of Remote Presence Robotic Tele-Presentation in Rural and Remote Canada: A Systematic Review.

Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
One potential solution to limited health care in rural and remote regions is remote presence robotic tele-presentation to allow health care providers to care for patients in their home community via a robotic interface. We synthesized evidence regar...

Forecasting care seekers satisfaction with telemedicine using machine learning and structural equation modeling.

PloS one
Many individuals visit rural telemedicine centres to obtain safe and effective health remedies for their physical and emotional illnesses. This study investigates the antecedents of patients' satisfaction relating to telemedicine adoption in rural pu...

Deep learning of HIV field-based rapid tests.

Nature medicine
Although deep learning algorithms show increasing promise for disease diagnosis, their use with rapid diagnostic tests performed in the field has not been extensively tested. Here we use deep learning to classify images of rapid human immunodeficienc...

Mobile Robotic Telepresence Solutions for the Education of Hospitalized Children.

Perspectives in health information management
Hospitalization affects children's school attendance, resulting in poor academic and sociodevelopmental outcomes. The increasing ubiquity of mobile and tablet technology in educational and healthcare environments, and the growth of the mobile robotic...

Remote Sonography in Routine Clinical Practice Between Two Isolated Medical Centers and the University Hospital Using a Robotic Arm: A 1-Year Study.

Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
BACKGROUND: A robotic arm was developed by our laboratory for tele-operated echography on patients in locations isolated from a trained sonographer. The objective of the study was to evaluate, over a 1-year period, the use of the robotic arm for tele...

The Quebec rural emergency department project: a cross-sectional study of a potential two-pronged strategy in the knowledge transfer process.

PloS one
INTRODUCTION: Health services research generates useful knowledge. Promotion of implementation of this knowledge in medical practice is essential. Prior to initiation of a major study on rural emergency departments (EDs), we deployed two knowledge tr...

When One Size Does not Fit All-Artificial Intelligence in Australian Rural Health.

The Australian journal of rural health
AIMS: Artificial intelligence (AI) is having an increasing impact on many aspects of our day-to-day lives. This change is also true in healthcare, with various tools being developed to hasten burdensome administrative tasks and increase overall healt...