Open AccessSurvey on issues concerning eHealth and telemedicine in Wound Care
Author(s) -
Ciro Falasconi,
Vincenzo Amalfi,
Patrizia Baroni,
Giovanni Vito Corona,
Corrado Maria Durante,
Paola Fanin,
Caterina Favaro,
M Fornaciari,
Alessandro Farris,
Manuela Galleazzi,
Francesco Giacinto,
Giorgio Guarnera,
Vincenzo Lauletta,
Mario Marazzi,
Marco Masina,
Vincenzo Mattaliano,
Giovanni Mosti,
Giuseppe Nebbioso,
Francesco Stanganello,
Francesco Petrella
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
italian journal of wound care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2611-6626
DOI - 10.4081/ijwc.2017.4
Subject(s) - the internet , telemedicine , internet privacy , ehealth , order (exchange) , social media , business , mobile internet , world wide web , information and communications technology , mobile device , wound care , health care , multimedia , computer science , medicine , political science , surgery , finance , law
In the three months period between March and June 2016 we launched a survey on the AUIC website, open to the contribution of all members, to evaluate the dissemination and use of modern information technology in the treatment of Chronic Skin Lesions (CSL). The now ubiquitous diffusion of desktop and portable computers and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets has confirmed the World Wide Web (“the Internet”) as a tool for communication and sharing of information and knowledge. With the current daily use of the Internet and the advent of social media there are no longer any limits to communication in all social and employment contexts. In our view, it is clear that the world of wound care could, or rather should, use these important tools in order to improve the standards of care offered to patients on a daily basis. In addition, the entry of a new generation of “digital natives” in the labor market will make the use of these technologies no longer an exception, but the most absolute normality.