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Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1028
EAN: 9780309055314
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0309055318
Label: National Academies Press
Manufacturer: National Academies Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 08, 1996
Publisher: National Academies Press
Studio: National Academies Press
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Editorial Review:
Telemedicine--the use of information and telecommunications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants--is receiving increasing attention not only in remote areas where health care access is troublesome but also in urban and suburban locations.
Yet the benefits and costs of this blend of medicine and digital technologies must be better demonstrated before today's cautious decisionmakers invest significant funds in its development.
Telemedicine presents a framework for evaluating patient care applications of telemedicine. The book identifies managerial, technical, policy, legal, and human factors that must be taken into account in evaluating a telemedicine program. The committee reviews previous efforts to establish evaluation frameworks and reports on results from several completed studies of image transmission, consulting from remote locations, and other telemedicine programs.
The committee also examines basic elements of an evaluation and considers relevant issues of quality, accessibility, and cost of health care.
Telemedicine will be of immediate interest to anyone with interest in the clinical application of telemedicine.
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Rating: - A rare hybrid of disciplines
This book is a rare hybrid of policy, business, and technology perspectives on how to derive value from any service whcihcan be supported or delivered by information and communications technologies. Written by medical and health policy practitioners, who will remain by far the predominant audience for such a book, it is nonetheless also of more general interest to anyone who has to develop and articulate the multiple perspectives needed to succesfully design and implement large-scale IT applications ... Read More
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