In recent decades, the utility of cognitive tele-assessment has increasingly been highlighted, both in adults and in children. The present study aimed to present TeleFE, a new tool for the tele-assessment of EF in children aged 6–13. TeleFE con...
ADHD is a childhood neurodevelopmental disorder, but it can persist into adolescence and adulthood and become detrimental to the individual’s well-being. It is known that many individuals with ADHD manifest executive functioning problems that a...
Background: Tele-health has become a major mode of delivery in patient care, with increasing interest in the use of tele-platforms for remote patient assessment. The use of smartphone technology to measure hip range of motion has been reported previo...
Background/Objectives: Telemedicine has emerged as a valuable tool for overcoming access barriers in healthcare, particularly in rehabilitation. However, the validity and reliability of remotely conducted physical capacity assessments remain unclear....
Background: Shoulder injuries are highly prevalent in handball due to repetitive overhead actions and high mechanical demands, particularly in athletes with a history of previous injury who remain at increased risk of recurrence. Reliable monitoring...
A tele-assessed 6MWT (TL 6MWT) could be an alternative method of evaluating functional capacity in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2). This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of a TL 6MWT. The functional capacity of 28 patie...
The global pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has highlighted the need for remote healthcare services. This study aimed to evaluate the concurrent validity and reliability of tele-assessment using 3D motion analysis and video confere...
Background: About 15 million people suffer a stroke each year, of which 10–15% occur in people under 50 years of age. The clinical management of neurological disorders depends on reliable diagnostic tools to identify impairments and aid in the...
Background: Early interventions in high-risk children seek to improve prognosis, minimize developmental delays, and prevent functional deterioration. The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of agreement between the face-to-face assessme...
Remote tele-rehabilitation requires objective pain assessment, but existing approaches fail in two distinct ways. Self-report scales such as the Visual Analog Scale and the Numeric Pain Rating Scale are easy to falsify, opening a special case of the...
The increasing use of telerehabilitation has intensified the need for validated smartphone sensor-based tools capable of accurately capturing joint range of motion (ROM). This study examined the criterion validity of the PhysioMaster application comp...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurological progressive movement disorder, affecting more than 10 million people globally. PD demands a longitudinal assessment of symptoms to monitor the disease progression and manage the treatments. Existing as...
The use of haptic devices in the rehabilitation of impaired limbs has become rather popular, given the proven effectiveness in promoting recovery. In a standard framework, such devices are used in rehabilitation centers, where patients interact with...
In certain circumstances, speech and language therapy is proposed in telepractice as a practical alternative to in-person services. However, little is known about the minimum quality requirements of recordings in the teleassessment of motor speech di...
Over the past few years, software applications for medical assistance, including tele-rehabilitation, have known an increasing presence in the health arena. Despite the several therapeutic and economic advantages of this new paradigm, it is important...
9 June 2022
Validated tools to evaluate physical performance remotely with real-time supervision are lacking. We assessed test–retest and inter-rater reliability, as well as the feasibility of carrying out the five-repetition sit-to-stand (5RSTS), kneeling...
7 July 2020
A global pandemic of a new highly contagious disease called COVID-19 resulting from coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-Cov-2) infection was declared in February 2020. Though primarily transmitted through the respiratory system, oth...
Background/Objectives: New advances in technologies are opening the possibility to support functional evaluation and rehabilitation in the field of speech therapy. Among available systems, a virtual reality rehabilitation system (VRRS, Khymeia) is a...
Remote patient supervision and assistance play a vital role in modern healthcare, particularly in emergency scenarios where specialists may not be immediately available. To address this need, tele-assistance systems capable of delivering real-time me...
Significant developments in sensing technology have had many impacts, enhancing monitoring and assessment accuracy across diverse fields. In the field of physical therapy, sensing, which plays a pivotal role in tele-physiotherapy, rapidly expanded am...
AIM: In our radiation departments, all patients received psycho-oncological support during RT and during follow-up. Based on the latter, the aim of this retrospective analysis was to evaluate the role of tele-visits and in-person psychological suppor...
Background: Cognitive decline does not always occur; therefore, it is important to recognise the predictors in people over 60. The COVID-19 pandemic led to isolation to limit the spread of the virus, with older people being the most affected. Objecti...
Background: Because of the new pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the demand for telemedicine and telemonitoring solutions has been exponentially raised. Because of its special advantage to treat patients in an emergency wit...
23 July 2026
Telehealth has the potential to improve access to healthcare, but teleassessment usability may be influenced by contextual factors beyond technology access alone. This study investigated factors associated with teleassessment usability among individu...
Background/Objectives: The Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) are an integral part of the multidisciplinary team approach to rehabilitation of persons with aphasia (PWA). However, the efficacy of treatment provided by SLPs can vary due to several fac...
Introduction: Teledentistry is an emerging tool to exchange medical information and clinical images to facilitate the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of oral diseases and patient assurance and education. Considering the shortage of oral medicine...
Today, in rural isolated areas or so-called ‘medical deserts’, access to diagnosis and care is very limited. With the current pandemic crisis, now even more than ever, telemedicine platforms are gradually more employed for remote medical...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the demand for utilising telehealth as a major mode of healthcare delivery, with increasing interest in the use of tele-platforms for remote patient assessment. In this context, the use of smartphone...
5 October 2021
Quality of life (QoL) is a core patient-reported outcome in healthcare research, alongside primary clinical outcomes. A conceptual, operational, and psychometric elaboration of QoL in the context of TM is needed, because standardized instruments to a...
Wearable sensors provide a tool for at-home monitoring of motor impairment progression in neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). This study examined the ability of deep learning approaches to grade the motor impairment severi...
Background/Objectives: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder frequently associated with cognitive impairment. In the context of increasing interest in remote healthcare solutions, particularly after the COVID-19 p...
Spasticity is a frequently observed symptom in patients with neurological impairments. Spastic movements of their upper and lower limbs are periodically measured to evaluate functional outcomes of physical rehabilitation, and they are quantified by c...
Background and aims: Digital food viewing is a vital skill for connecting dieticians to e-health. The aim of this study was to integrate a novel pedagogical framework that combines interactive three- (3-D) and two-dimensional (2-D) food models into a...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic imposes an unprecedented lifestyle, dominated by social isolation. In this frame, the population to pay the highest price is represented by demented patients. This group faces the highest risk of morta...
Background: The Telemechron project addresses critical needs in telemedicine by evaluating technology assessment frameworks and key performance indicators (KPIs), among other objectives. Effective frameworks and KPIs are crucial for assessing telemed...
The Prechtl General Movements Assessment (GMA) has become a clinician and researcher toolbox for evaluating neurodevelopment in early infancy. Given that it involves the observation of infant movements from video recordings, utilising smartphone appl...
In recent years, the use of inertial-based systems has been applied to remote rehabilitation, opening new perspectives for outpatient assessment. In this study, we assessed the accuracy and the concurrent validity of the angular measurements provided...
The field of technology assessment in telemedicine is garnering increasing attention due to the widespread adoption of this discipline and its complex and heterogeneous system characteristics, making its application complex. As part of a national tel...
This paper addresses the industrial adoption gap of 5G/6G by presenting a novel, vertical-agnostic Methodological Assessment Framework (MAF). The MAF bridges the Network Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of 5G networks with user-centric User-KPIs and...
Background: Digital health has accelerated telehealth uptake, yet evidence comparing video-based musculoskeletal assessment with traditional in-person examination is limited. This study evaluated the concurrent validity and interrater reliability of...
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly influencing the assessment and delivery of movement and exercise, yet its role within adapted physical activity (APA) for individuals with chronic conditions has not been comprehensively synthesized. ML-based app...
Objectives: Virtual reality (VR) enables controlled, interactive, and ecologically valid visual tasks, offering potential advantages over static clinical tests. This systematic review synthesized current evidence on the use of VR technologies for ass...
Strict adherence to a diet is an essential pillar of long-term treatment for many inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs). Tools that educate patients about dietary management can positively condition adherence and prevent morbidity. We designed a free on...
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of telemedicine and revealed persistent barriers in rural primary healthcare, especially among older adults and caregivers. This study proposes an LLM-mediated smart tele-primary-care framework to support res...
Although guidelines surrounding COVID-19 have relaxed and school-aged students are no longer required to wear masks and social distance in schools, we have become, as a nation and as a society, more comfortable working from home, learning online, and...
Once the WHO declared the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, the world had to reprogram numerous clinical activities, particularly those related to highly disabling diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). In this study, 1083 IBD patients were assessed...
Tele-dentistry is a rapidly growing field, especially in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote services are of increasing interest to both patients and dental personnel. They allow for reduced person-to-person contact...
16 June 2025
Background: Tele-practice, as an evidence-based practice, has gained momentum over the last two decades. However, routine clinical adoption is not spontaneous. Implementation science facilitates stakeholder engagement and the assessment of needs and...
20 May 2021
This study aimed to examine the effect of a multidisciplinary tele-rehabilitation program on functional recovery of older adults with hip fracture compared with home-based in-person rehabilitation. In this single-blinded, non-randomized clinical tria...
The T-Rehab System delivers a semi-immersive tele-rehabilitation experience by integrating Affective Computing (AC) through facial expression analysis and contactless heartbeat monitoring. T-Rehab closely monitors patients’ mental health as the...
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