The role of telehealth in an evolving health care environment : : workshop summary / / Tracy A. Lustig, Rapporteur ; Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: a guide to assessing telecommunications for health care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for whi...

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Place / Publishing House:Washington, District of Columbia : : National Academies Press,, [2012]
2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (157 pages) :; color illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Opening remarks
  • The evolution of telehealth: where have we been and where are we going?
  • Challenges in telehealth
  • Telehealth and payment
  • The health care continuum
  • Remarks and discussion: Day 1
  • Current evidence base
  • Technological developments
  • State-based perspectives
  • Experiences of the VA and IHS
  • Stakeholder perspectives
  • Concluding remarks and discussion.