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Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring
Marilyn J. Field, PhD;
Jim Grigsby, PhD
JAMA. 2002;288:423-425.
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INTRODUCTION
Defined broadly, telemedicine is the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants.1 The term is also applied more narrowly to medical applications that use interactive video, typically for specialty or subspecialty physician consultations. Sometimes the term telehealth is used to encompass educational, research, and administrative uses as well as clinical applications that involve nurses, psychologists, administrators, and other nonphysicians.
Telemedicine using interactive video made its debut about 40 years ago to support neurologic and psychiatric services in Nebraska.2 Through the early 1990s, telemedicine mostly involved specialty consultations via videoconference technology. Recently, more attention has focused on noninteractive applications, including those that use relatively inexpensive store-and-forward technologies to save and then transmit text and images (essentially, multimedia e-mail).
Both interactive and noninteractive technologies are increasingly used or promoted for remote monitoring of health . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Slow Dissemination of Telemedicine
Medicare and Other Coverage
Transmission Costs
Remote Monitoring and Home Health Care
Remote Monitoring and ICUs
Remote Monitoring for Disease Management
Congestive Heart Failure Diabetes
Astronauts and Athletes
Conclusion
Author Affiliations: Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (Dr Field); and Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver (Dr Grigsby).
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