Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway
‘A picture is worth more than a thousand words’ - (Mann & Colven, University of Washington Medical School), that simply can justify the necessity of teledermatology. In this paper, five information technology (IT) efforts in the field of teledermatology that based on skin image transmission proc...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Master Thesis |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Universitetet i Tromsø
2008
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/1456 |
id |
ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/1456 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/1456 2024-06-02T08:07:45+00:00 Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway Ali, Md. Eunus 2008-05-15 8453635 bytes 2063 bytes application/pdf text/plain https://hdl.handle.net/10037/1456 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø University of Tromsø https://hdl.handle.net/10037/1456 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_1232 openAccess Copyright 2008 The Author(s) VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Health service and health administration research: 806 Teledermatology North Norway Information infrastructure Actor-network theory TLM-3901 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2008 ftunivtroemsoe 2024-05-07T08:41:49Z ‘A picture is worth more than a thousand words’ - (Mann & Colven, University of Washington Medical School), that simply can justify the necessity of teledermatology. In this paper, five information technology (IT) efforts in the field of teledermatology that based on skin image transmission procedure and their historical transformations in context of the notions of information infrastructures and actor-network theory have been discussed. The main purpose of these efforts was to decentralize specialist’s services to the GP, nurses or district levels. Among the five efforts, only in one effort namely DMS Nord Troms, added telemedicine tool of the UNN creates virtual hospital, decentralized regional healthcare services. This thesis paper tries to figure out the contents of dermatologic e-health services in North Norway from the mid 1980s onwards; the problems involved in previously non-sustainable and related some dermatological heath care services. Some of these services have been quite successful, such as Videoconferencing among UNN and Kirkenes, Hammerfest, Nordeisa etc. The paper applies some notions of theoretical approach whether they may be helpful to address the challenges in establishing sustainable telemedicine services in case of dermatology. Furthermore, the paper points out the actual strategy for establishing teledermatological services from the perspectives of different historical transformation. In this interpretive study based thesis, fifteen interviews have been conducted to illustrate the five teledermatological efforts. Five teledermatological efforts were started with high motivation to reach their final goals. But four of them had not been sustainable due to finishing of funding or lacking control for the integrated nature of technology. The thesis concludes that e-health services of teledermatology should be very much linked into practice. The efforts should be evaluated through the lens of practice oriented processes or approaches such as information infrastructure or actor-network ... Master Thesis Hammerfest Kirkenes North Norway Troms University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive |
op_collection_id |
ftunivtroemsoe |
language |
English |
topic |
VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Health service and health administration research: 806 Teledermatology North Norway Information infrastructure Actor-network theory TLM-3901 |
spellingShingle |
VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Health service and health administration research: 806 Teledermatology North Norway Information infrastructure Actor-network theory TLM-3901 Ali, Md. Eunus Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway |
topic_facet |
VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Health service and health administration research: 806 Teledermatology North Norway Information infrastructure Actor-network theory TLM-3901 |
description |
‘A picture is worth more than a thousand words’ - (Mann & Colven, University of Washington Medical School), that simply can justify the necessity of teledermatology. In this paper, five information technology (IT) efforts in the field of teledermatology that based on skin image transmission procedure and their historical transformations in context of the notions of information infrastructures and actor-network theory have been discussed. The main purpose of these efforts was to decentralize specialist’s services to the GP, nurses or district levels. Among the five efforts, only in one effort namely DMS Nord Troms, added telemedicine tool of the UNN creates virtual hospital, decentralized regional healthcare services. This thesis paper tries to figure out the contents of dermatologic e-health services in North Norway from the mid 1980s onwards; the problems involved in previously non-sustainable and related some dermatological heath care services. Some of these services have been quite successful, such as Videoconferencing among UNN and Kirkenes, Hammerfest, Nordeisa etc. The paper applies some notions of theoretical approach whether they may be helpful to address the challenges in establishing sustainable telemedicine services in case of dermatology. Furthermore, the paper points out the actual strategy for establishing teledermatological services from the perspectives of different historical transformation. In this interpretive study based thesis, fifteen interviews have been conducted to illustrate the five teledermatological efforts. Five teledermatological efforts were started with high motivation to reach their final goals. But four of them had not been sustainable due to finishing of funding or lacking control for the integrated nature of technology. The thesis concludes that e-health services of teledermatology should be very much linked into practice. The efforts should be evaluated through the lens of practice oriented processes or approaches such as information infrastructure or actor-network ... |
format |
Master Thesis |
author |
Ali, Md. Eunus |
author_facet |
Ali, Md. Eunus |
author_sort |
Ali, Md. Eunus |
title |
Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway |
title_short |
Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway |
title_full |
Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway |
title_fullStr |
Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway |
title_full_unstemmed |
Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway |
title_sort |
twenty years with teledermatology in north norway |
publisher |
Universitetet i Tromsø |
publishDate |
2008 |
url |
https://hdl.handle.net/10037/1456 |
geographic |
Norway |
geographic_facet |
Norway |
genre |
Hammerfest Kirkenes North Norway Troms |
genre_facet |
Hammerfest Kirkenes North Norway Troms |
op_relation |
https://hdl.handle.net/10037/1456 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_1232 |
op_rights |
openAccess Copyright 2008 The Author(s) |
_version_ |
1800752875897356288 |