On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Paul Heinzelmann wrote: > I sense that there are a lot of new and yet-to-be-discovered ways to use > these kind of low-bandwidth capabilities for health (including consultation, > collaboration, and education). The perceived value of these will always be > user-dependent and likely require a trial and error approach. > > In terms of a role for clinical consultation: The tough sell, in my > opinion, is to engage specialists who are expected to diagnose. The more > appropriate role for video function may be to simply triage patients and > make simple decisions rather than definitively diagnose or assess patients.
the key thing to remember is that in many cases the alternative isn't a in-person visit to the specialist, it's going without professional diagnosis entirely. David Lang > Just food for thought. Best wishes > > Paul > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> 2008/10/14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> but those are not all cases. >> >> exactly. There's a lot of fun to be had, and a lot to learn with this. >> Might be useful in some cases (perhaps growing number of cases, if >> connectivity improves over time) and more things become viable. >> >> For health purposes, it will probably not be useful, except for a tiny >> % of cases. If people want health tools, that's a different project. >> >> Let's refocus that camera on collaboration and education. >> >> >> >> m >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect >> - ask interesting questions >> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel