Telehealth and the diagnosis and management of cardiac disease
| Autor: | Peter Mackinlay Yellowlees, Thomas H. Marwick, G. S. Hooper, P. J. Currie, B. P. Bidstrup |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Telemedicine Heart Diseases Service delivery framework medicine.medical_treatment education MEDLINE Health Informatics Telehealth Disease Electrocardiography medicine Humans Myocardial infarction Intensive care medicine health care economics and organizations Rehabilitation business.industry Remote Consultation medicine.disease Clinical trial Echocardiography Chronic Disease Female Medical emergency Queensland business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of telemedicine and telecare. 7(5) |
| ISSN: | 1357-633X |
| Popis: | The financial and personal burden of chronic cardiac disease is high. Costs are likely to increase over the next few decades. Promising applications of telehealth have appeared in the diagnosis and management of cardiac disease and there are indications that telehealth services can improve the management of chronic cardiac disease as well as extend services to remote and rural populations. Telehealth has been applied to the capture of symptoms of cardiac disease with electrocardiography and echocardiography, to the management and rehabilitation of recently discharged patients, and in peer-to-peer consultation where remote expertise can facilitate diagnosis. Telehealth promises cost reductions in service delivery, although there is a need for properly controlled cost-effectiveness trials to underpin telehealth with a firm evidence base. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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