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Telemedicine : a Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staff, Institute of Medicine
Otros Autores: Field, Marilyn J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : National Academies Press, 1900.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Telemedicine""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Telemedicine""; ""Summary""; ""TELEMEDICINE PAST AND PRESENT""; ""CHALLENGES IN EVALUATING CLINICAL TELEMEDICINE""; ""A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATION""; ""BASIC EVALUATION QUESTIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE QUALITY, ACCESSIBILITY, COST, AND ACCEPTABILITY OF TELEMEDICINE""; ""Evaluating Quality of Care and Health Outcomes""; ""Evaluating Access to Care""; ""Evaluating Health Care Costs and Cost-Effectiveness""; ""Evaluating Patient Perceptions""; ""Evaluating Clinician Perceptions""
  • ""1 Introduction and Background """"TELEMEDICINE IN CONTEXT""; ""THE DEMAND FOR EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS""; ""STUDY ORIGINS AND APPROACH""; ""TERMS AND DEFINITIONS""; ""Telemedicine""; ""Classifying Clinical Applications of Telemedicine""; ""Evaluation""; ""STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT""; ""2 Evolution and Current Applications of Telemedicine""; ""EVOLUTION OF DISTANCE COMMUNICATION""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF TELEMEDICINE""; ""CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF TELEMEDICINE""; ""Growth and Diversity""; ""Teleradiology""; ""Care in the Home and Other Nonclinical Sites""; ""Telemedicine for Prison Populations""
  • ""Rural Telepsychiatry""""Postsurgical Monitoring in an Urban Nursing Home""; ""Telemedicine in a Managed Care System""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3 The Technical and Human Context of Telemedicine""; ""THE TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""Variation in User Needs and Circumstances""; ""Variety and Complexity of Technologies""; ""Information Carrying Capacity""; ""Information Transmission Media""; ""Information Restructuring and Digital Technologies""; ""Making the Pieces Work Together""; ""Standards for Hardware and Software""; ""Managing the Old and the New""
  • ""HUMAN FACTORS AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF TELEMEDICINE""""Growing Recognition of Human Factors""; ""Practical Human Factors""; ""Problems Related to Equipment""; ""Difficulty of Incorporating Telemedicine into Existing Practice""; ""Inadequate Assessment of Needs and Preferences""; ""Cultural and Socioeconomic Factors""; ""Professional Culture and Image""; ""Lack of Documented Benefit""; ""Lack of Payment for Telemedicine Services""; ""Health Care Restructuring""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""4 The Policy Context of Telemedicine""; ""NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY""
  • ""STATE PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES""""PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND DISTANCE MEDICINE""; ""Current Policies""; ""Issues""; ""Policy Options""; ""A Note on Credentialing""; ""MALPRACTICE LIABILITY""; ""Current Policies""; ""Issues""; ""Policy Options""; ""PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND SECURITY""; ""Current Policies""; ""Issues""; ""Policy Options""; ""Technical and Administrative Options""; ""PAYMENT POLICIES FOR TELEMEDICINE""; ""Fee-for-Service Payment and Telemedicine""; ""Per Case or Other Bundled Payment Methods""; ""Capitation Payment/Fixed Budget""; ""Other Financing Mechanisms""