Telemedicine in integrated care (example: asthma treatment)
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Telemedicine in integrated care (example: asthma treatment)
Purpose: Medical impact of telemetric management on patients with asthma. Context: Sectoral boundaries still cause problems in supervising chronically Ill patients in Germany. Integrated care models by means of modern telemedicine can help. Since the beginning of 2008, an agreement between the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) and the German Foundation for the Chronically Ill has enabled a telemedica...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Integrated Care
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1568-4156
DOI: 10.5334/ijic.617