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Title:
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UBIHEALTH: A UBIQUITOUS COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT TELEMEDICINE |
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Author(s):
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Felipe dos Santos, Cristiano André da Costa |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-16-6 |
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Editors:
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Bebo White and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2013 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Telemedicine, Ubiquitous computing, Mobile computing, Collaborative software. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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172 |
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Last Page:
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179 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Brazil lacks doctors to achieve a satisfactory provision of health services in all regions. Trying to mitigate this issue, this article describes a model of a telemedicine system named UbiHealth. The system is designed to support adoption of telemedicine, primarily seeking to improve the quality of diseases diagnosis in Brazil through collaboration between medicine professionals. The model is based on a client/server structure where clients are mobile devices that consider different forms of usability in order to integrate the system to the daily actions and behavior of professional in the most natural way possible. Besides improving the diagnosis of diseases the system also intend to bring benefits reducing cost and reducing the need from the people involved to travel. We also present a developed prototype for multiple mobile platforms. We evaluated UbiHealth by assessing usability, effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of its users. The results were encouraging and show the potential benefits of deploying UbiHealth in real medical environments |
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