Title page -- Preface -- Contents -- I. The Development of Telemedicine -- International Virtual e-Hospital: The Balkans Journey -- II. Creating and Integrating Telemedicine and e-Health Systems -- Integrating Telemedicine and Telehealth: Putting It All Together -- The Do's and Don't's when You Establish Telemedicine and e-Health (Not Only) in Developing Countries -- The Last Challenges and Barriers to the Development of Telemedicine Programs -- Creating Telehealth Networks from Existing Infrastructures -- Network Design for Telemedicine - e-Health Using Satellite Technology -- Changing from Paper to Paperless Hospitals in Busy Academic Centers -- III. Special Applications of Telemedicine -- Telemedicine in Extreme Conditions: Disasters, War, Remote Sites -- Technologies for Complex and Critical Care Telemedicine -- Intensive Care Telemedicine: Evaluating a Model for Proactive Remote Monitoring and Intervention in the Critical Care Setting -- IV. Clinical Telemedicine -- Telemedicine in Neurosciences -- Telemedicine in Primary Health Care -- Telemedicine for Home Health and the New Patient: When Do We Really Need to Go to the Hospital? -- Telerehabilitation: Current Perspectives -- Telemedicine and Wound Care -- Telemedicine for Pathology -- Tele-Dermatology in Australia -- Telemedicine in Oncology: European Perspective -- V. The Internet and Medicine -- The Authority and Utility of Internet Information -- VI. New Frontiers of Telemedicine -- Telepresence and Telemedicine in Trauma and Emergency -- Appendix -- Subject Index -- Author Index.