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Quality Assurance and Risk Management

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Benchmarked guidelines, standards and quality management procedures for practicing teleconsultation have to be developed and adopted on a large scale. Successful teleconsultation services should be further transformed into a system of reliable and certified products and applications. Baseline, generic guidelines help ensure quality management across a broad range of different telemedicine services In order to reduce and avoid human, technical and logistic errors and pitfalls, checklists have to be integrated into the practice of telemedicine. An appropriate illumination is important to obtain usable and diagnosable images. Filters can be useful to prepare the image or to emphasize relevant image areas. Because of potential loss of information, lossless image compression should be preferred rather than lossy compression.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Division of General Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Barbara Hofer, Christian Scheibböck & Michael Binder

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  1. , Princess Alexandra Hospital, The University of Queensland School of, 199 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, 4102, Queensland, Australia

    Hans Peter Soyer

  2. Department of Dermatology, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, Vienna, 1090, Austria

    Michael Binder

  3. Royal Children's Hospital, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Corner of Bramston Terrace & Herston Road, Herston, 4029, Queensland, Australia

    Anthony C. Smith

  4. School of Medicine - Princess Alexandra, Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Ipswich Road 199, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Elisabeth M.T. Wurm

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Hofer, B., Scheibböck, C., Binder, M. (2012). Quality Assurance and Risk Management. In: Soyer, H., Binder, M., Smith, A., Wurm, E. (eds) Telemedicine in Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20801-0_20

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