Telemedicine: Is it really worth it? A perspective from evidence and experience
| Autor: | James Freed, Rachel Binks, Gerd Flodgren, Jyrki Kolsi, Kevin Doughty, Charles Lowe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Telemedicine
020205 medical informatics Best practice Health Informatics Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics Health informatics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health Information Management 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering evidence-based policy Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Implementation Evidence-Based Medicine business.industry Health Plan Implementation Public relations Computer Science Applications Review Literature as Topic Work (electrical) Software deployment Organizational Case Studies lcsh:R858-859.7 Business Medical Informatics Evidence-based policy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 014-018 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2058-4563 |
| Popis: | BackgroundThis paper summarises a series of presentations on telemedicine given at a UK eHealth Week conference session in 2016. The formal evidence base for telemedicine is equivocal, but practical experience suggests that implementations of technology that support telemedicine initiatives can result in improved patient outcomes, better patient and carer experience and reduced expenditure.ObjectiveTo answer the questions ‘Is an investment in telemedicine worth it’? and ‘How do I make a telemedicine implementation work’?MethodsSummary of systematic review evidence and an illustrative case study. Discussion of implications for industry and policy.ResultsRealisation of telemedicine benefits is much less to do with the technology itself and much more around the context of the implementing organisation and its ability to implement.ConclusionWe recommend that local organisations consider deployment of telemedicine initiatives but with a greater awareness of the growing body of implementation best practice. We also recommend, for the National Health Service, that the centre takes a greater role in the collation and dissemination of best practice to support successful implementations of telemedicine and other health informatics initiatives. |
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