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Tele-Health application demonstrated over wireless network in Tsilitwa and Sulenkama, Eastern Cape |
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| An effective application of voice and video
communications was demonstrated by the clinic sister at the Tslitwa
clinic, and a doctor at the Sulenkama hospital. An Ethernet camera
was incorporated into the wireless link between the clinic (send site)
and the hospital (receive site). Basic training was given to both
the clinic sister and doctor on system usage.
A mountain obstructed the line-of-site between the clinic and the hospital, necessitating the need for a repeater site. |
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Tsilitwa Clinic sister |
Doctor at Sulenkama hospital |
| The patient, a mother with her baby, arrives at the
rural clinic in Tsilitwa. By prior arrangement, a time had been established
with the doctor at Sulenkama hospital for the tele-consultation.
The clinic sister switches on the web camera and asks the mother to lie the |
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Mother with patient (baby) |
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baby on the bed. The sister switches on the PC and opens Internet Explorer, which had been previously configured to operate the webcam software. Within seconds, the image of the baby is visible on the clinic sisters PC. She picks up the phone and calls the doctor over the wireless link at the Sulenkama hospital. |
| The doctor picks up the phone. She has
already switched on her PC and opened up Internet Explorer previously
configured with the webcam software. Instantly the picture of the
baby appears on her screen. The doctor talks to the clinic sister
and asks her to re-focus the camera on the baby. The clinic sister
does this with some difficulty holding the phone in one hand and adjusting
the camera with the other.
The doctor views the baby and a tele-consultation process begins with simultaneous voice and video communication between the doctor and sister. Note, that the doctor can see the clinic, but the clinic cannot see the doctor, as the video link is uni-directional one. |
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