Common topics for good follow-up methods were home visits by physicians, nurses and/or home care personnel, telephone support, video telephony, e-mail and Internet tools.
Five categories of communication technologies were identified: video-and tele-conferencing (n = 2); mobile telephony (n = 3); telephone support (n = 3); novel electronic communication devices for transferring clinical information (n = 10); and web-based discussion boards (n = 1).
This paper provides a detailed compatibility analysis for the main architecture and protocols that have been developed by standardisation bodies to support telephony over packet networks.
Ad supported telephony has been a bit of a hot topic in telephony.
"Windows NT was released with lots of support for telephony," he explains, referring to TAPI the Telephony Applications Programming Interface that first appeared with Windows 95. "We decided to build a PBX that ran on a PC and in the process we could offer most of the features of much more expensive dedicated voice mail, call distribution and telephony products".
The Symbian software provides the underlying features that are essential to a smartphone operating system, such as support for telephony, graphics, security and Internet access.
With ICQphone, ICQ can support IP telephony, allowing users to call other computers and telephones and even to carry out conference calls, all over the Internet.
It has an earphone jack, and it supports text telephony capability for people with hearing impairments.
These extensions enable PacketCable systems to provide a robust multimedia service platform supporting basic telephony and custom calling features.
An individualised two-line handset for the household, BeoCom 5 supports IP telephony and includes a cordless speaker phone, built-in phonebook and full-graphic display.
