Abstract
The hospital is the natural place where healthcare can be delivered. Parents are keen to go to the hospital, also bypassing their family doctor, whenever their child presents a medical condition. Nonetheless, most health centers do not have adequate facilities, equipment, or trained personnel to deal with children.
The implementation of telemedicine systems, aimed to increase the level of care, connecting families, GP surgeries, hospital, and more advanced and specialist health centers, can create a net of communication, where expertise could be shared and tailored investigations and treatments can be fostered.
That is due to overcome the physical boundaries that restrain families coming from those areas without coverage of health specialists, but also to help major hospitals to optimize their resources.
Telemedicine implemented in the hospital system – which should not be disconnected to the community – can help in fact professionals to optimize their efforts, increasing the possibility of making an early diagnosis and selecting the best possible treatment; families to better face suffering, increasing the quality of care they can give to their children; and children to receive and seek better attention, reducing the burden.
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Webpages and Facebook pages already give a number of unproven information easily accessible. Some of those sources, yet, are not reliable, with some of the procedures suggested resulting untruthful, wrong, not fit to the purpose information, and armful or risky when not performed by professionals.
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This is the case of the centers for the management of acute poisonings that already give real-time advices also to major hospitals, with telephone and online consultations. This service offers an interesting model: a very limited number of very specialist and specific centers serving all the national health system, from the smallest health unit to the most advanced one, also offering a call line for private users and families.
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Capello, F., Pili, G. (2014). Telemedicine in Acute Settings and Secondary Care: The Hospital. In: Capello, F., Naimoli, A., Pili, G. (eds) Telemedicine for Children's Health. TELe-Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06489-5_3
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