Document Type : مقاله مروری نقلی
Authors
1 PhD Student, Medical Informatics, faculty of paramedicine.Shahid Beheshti Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Medical Informatics Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Abstract
Over the last decade telemedicine services particularly in dermatology domain has seen significant advances and it became as routine medical services in many parts of the world. In Iran although it is not being used in usual practice but many research projects have been conducted on this issue. The main and important point that has not yet been paid enough attention is meeting standard guidelines in telemedermatology services. Ignoring these points can result in misdiagnosis by medical specialists. The value of this matter is that important that American Telemedicine Association has suggested a comprehensive standard guideline about it. Having considered that any similar paper has not yet been published in Iran, this paper aims to conduct a comprehensive review on available resources and guidelines and published papers between 1997-2013 in Teledermatology domain such as the minimum requirements for photography in teledermatology , skin lesions photography techniques , distances, resolution, macro imaging , use of flash, compression, attention to balance between image size and the quality of images for a Teledermatology consultation service.
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