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The high costs and inconvenience of visiting a doctor for medical advice have deterred a sizable number of elderly and needy from seeking proper medical treatment promptly and this may cause their conditions to deteriorate and possibly resulting in a more severe impact on their daily lives. Thus, this application is designed with the aim to bring more convenience and health care services to these less privileged segments of the community. In this paper a secure multi-access cross-platform telemedicine application, known as MEETING ROOM, has been designed and developed to provide easily accessible health care services. The MEETING ROOM application adopts a web-based approach in general to provide the flexibility to run on cross-platform devices. Computing devices with network connectivity can be placed in clinics, day care centers, community centers or right at their homes so that they can easily access the application with those devices. It is a hybrid application, comprising of a web portal and a video conferencing application. The web portal is used to manage the system and the users in a secure manner while the video conferencing application provides a convenient communication platform for the patients to consult a doctor on their conditions and for the doctors to hold online meetings. A web-based version and mobile Android version of the video conferencing application are developed to provide the flexibility. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Use of telecommunication technology to tackle medical accessibility challenges, termed “Telemedicine”, is getting attention from researchers around the world. Realizing such a system in low bandwidth network is even more challenging; majorly due to the heavy data payload caused by video frames. This paper introduces some innovative features so that a regular video conferencing solution can be designed which will be able to function satisfactorily under low bandwidth networks. This work also focuses on categorizing the video transmission into different streaming priority classes based on parameters such as frame rate and resolution, which are important in varying medical applications, in order to achieve a minimum standard across all network speeds starting from as low as 128kbps. Analysis of these classes show that the innovative methods used in reducing the huge data payload of video data indeed are effective and help in making the telemedicine application in low-bandwidth networks a reality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]