Telehealth: The Need for Evaluation
Open Access
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Vol. 4 (1) , 69-70
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jamia.1997.0040069
Abstract
This issue of the Journal presents reports of five health care telecommunications projects that span a wide range of methods, applications, and users. One clearly discernible theme joining these projects is the celebration of the technical feasibility of conveying health-related information and direct patient services at a distance. For example, London et al. describe a demonstration project to improve cancer-related communications between a university cancer center and its affiliated community hospitals.1 Their information system components include use of the World Wide Web to communicate content and eligibility information for cancer clinical trials—an approach shared and expanded upon by Afrin et al., also in an oncology context2—and a low-cost teleconsultation system built on commercially available teleconferencing software and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) phone service.Keywords
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