Telemedicine in Developing Countries

Telemedicine is more and more regarded as a viable method to provide expertise knowledge to unprivileged regions of our world. However, there is very few literature and only a few trials have been carried out. A major problem is the lack of a platform to conduct such experiments. As iPath is released free and with open source, it is easily adaptable to new applications and not imposing high operating costs. iPath could be an ideal platform to carry out such experiments and to establish telemedicine services for developing countries. Additionally, we think that such a collaborative project could also be interesting as an information technology project for developing countries. With its minimal infrastructure requirements, it could be implemented by a developing country on its own without depending on the "first world".