Telemedicine

Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care

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.

"It is extremely useful as a general, relatively nontechnical, but thorough overview of the assessment of telemedicine technology." Booklist

"An important source for anyone participating in these endeavors." CHOICE

	FRONT MATTER	i-x
	CONTENTS	xi-xvi
	SUMMARY	1-15
	1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND	16-33
	2 EVOLUTION AND CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF TELEMEDICINE	34-54
	3 THE TECHNICAL AND HUMAN CONTEXT OF TELEMEDICINE	55-82
	4 THE POLICY CONTEXT OF TELEMEDICINE	83-115
	5 PAST AND CURRENT EVALUATIONS OF TELEMEDICINE	116-136
	6 A FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING AND IMPROVING EVALUATIONS OF TELEMEDICINE	137-161
	7 EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF TELEMEDICINE ON QUALITY, ACCESS AND COST	162-193
	8 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS	194-208
	REFERENCES	209-225
	APPENDIXES	226-228
	A Examples of Federal Telemedicine Grants	229-238
	B Glossary and Abbreviations	239-252
	C Committee Biographies	253-258
	INDEX	259-271

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