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Telemedicine: Discovering And Overcoming The Barriers, Dennis Mcclain-Furmanski
Telemedicine: Discovering And Overcoming The Barriers, Dennis Mcclain-Furmanski
Community & Environmental Health Theses & Dissertations
Telemedicine is the use of teleconmrunications for medical diagnosis and patient care from a distance. This multimedia computer based medium serves as an aid to decision making, a means of transmission of care-related data and as a channel for collaborative care management between a provider and a patient. It is of greatest utility in remote areas, or in other cases where transportation of either provider or patient would be problematic or economically less feasible than the telemedicine alternative.
This study examined the current capabilities of the computer hardware and software necessary to implement a telemedicine system. It found that current …