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Nowadays, worldwide communications are vastly available, being a common support in all technologically developed countries as Web connections and mobile phones. Besides, GSM and satellite connections are becoming widely available also in developing and the least developed countries, with many portable solutions already under implementation.
Those technologies can be an affordable way to improve patients’ care. Yet the assessment of the real needs and of the restraints that lie in the nature of the final users (in this case the child) has to be properly considered. A layer of complexity can be created in order to offer different solutions for different users, without compromising the nature of the communication or of the contents.
Any device intended for children has to consider the peculiarities appropriate for this group of users and also consider the wide variability among the different age groups.
The technical limitations of the setting those devices are intended for have to be carefully evaluated in order to avoid a waste of resource and the introduction of impracticable models that are due to delay the proper implementation of telehealth systems.
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e.g. the waste of data traffic for improper use as unauthorized downloading of multimedia contents from the net, so that the weekly or monthly ceiling (commonly applied for disadvantaged connection, as the ones in rural and extreme rural areas, especially in developing settings) is reached before the time. Professional use of the connection system becomes thus compromised.
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A command-line interface (CLI) is a coding console where the user types commands to achieve desired results: this is a kind of programming, and it could be very hostile. Its counterpart is the graphical user interface, where almost everything is a graphical object, the most common being a WIMP (windows, icons, mouse, menus, and pointers) environment.
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Naimoli, A.E. (2014). Connectivity, Devices, and Interfaces: Worldwide Interconnections. 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_6
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