Telehealth policy: Looking for global complementarity
| Autor: | M Faruq U Chowdhury, Richard E Scott, Sunil Varghese |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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020205 medical informatics
Jurisdiction Public economics Health Policy Health Informatics 02 engineering and technology Telehealth Global Health Complementarity (physics) Telemedicine Cripple Health Planning 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Individual health Policy decision 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 8:55-57 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1109 1357-633X |
| Popis: | summary Telehealth is gaining acceptance as a tool for bridging the local and global health-care divides. However, integrating telehealth into existing health infrastructures presents a daunting challenge for governments, policy makers, telehealth advocates and health-care workers. The development of specific inter-jurisdictional telehealth policies will significantly improve the ability to meet this challenge. In the policy context, one ‘success’ is the increasing number of jurisdictions addressing policy issues. However, policy decisions have largely been taken in isolation, within individual health institutions, regions, provinces/states or countries. This represents a failure of the current approach. Telehealth, by its very nature, has the ability to transgress existing geo-political boundaries. As a consequence, policy in any single jurisdiction may hamper or even cripple the ability of telehealth to fulfil its potential. Commonality-or at least complementarity-of approach to telehealth policy must be encouraged. To achieve this, it is essential to understand the current or anticipated regulatory constraints that may affect telehealth. We have begun a preliminary study of country-specific policy issues. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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