Telemedicine in Hospitals: Issues in Implementation

by Sherry Emery

Overview

This book looks at the history and development of telemedicine and its effect on the medical profession. It includes advances in telecommunications and medical technologies that greatly have increased the reliability, resolution, and speed of transmitting medical images, changes that are have been affected by changes in the national and global economies and the support to rural hospitals during the 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815332237
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/17/1998
Series:	Health Care Policy in the United States
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Telemedicine in Hospitals

Editorial Reviews

Directs attention to three crucial questions: whether telemedicine improves rural health delivery, what role it plays in the economics of the health-care industry, and how necessary effective telemedicine government programs are. Describes the technology's current diffusion and identifies keys to success, noting that it has not yet benefited rural health because small hospitals generally lack the necessary financial and technical expertise to adopt it. Revised from a Ph.D. dissertation about which no further information is provided. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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