The American Academy of Sleep Medicine's (AASM) Taskforce on Sleep Telemedicine supports telemedicine as a means of advancing patient health by improving access to the expertise of Board-Certified Sleep Medicine Specialists. However, such access improvement needs to be anchored in attention to quality and value in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders. Telemedicine is also useful to promote p...

In developing countries Doctors or Physicians don’t like to go to the rural areas and people of rural (backwards) areas are not facilitated up to the mark. Thus the disaster situation occurs when these people are transferred to the city hospital for tertiary and mostly even for primary care. Advancement in the field of communications provided the solution in the form of Telemedicine. Telemedici...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We investigated non-acute headache patients' long-term satisfaction with a telemedicine consultation and consultation preferences in northern Norway. We hypothesized that patients were not less satisfied with telemedicine than traditional consultations. We also examined the influence of gender, age and education on satisfaction. METHODS For 2.5 years, patients were cons...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare doctor-patient communications in clinical consultations via telemedicine technology to doctor-patient communications in face-to-face clinical consultations. METHOD Five doctors who had been practicing internal medicine for 8 to 18 years, and twenty patients were enrolled in this study; neither doctors nor patients had previous experience of...

OBJECTIVE Qualitative studies can help us understand the "successes" and "failures" of telemedicine to normalize within clinical service provision. This report presents the development of a robust conceptual model of normalization processes in the implementation and development of telemedicine services. DESIGN Retrospective and cumulative analysis of longitudinal qualitative data from three s...

Telemedicine, enabled by state-of-art information technology, is rapidly gaining awareness in many countries. Despite the advanced telecommunication infrastructure, the introduction of telemedicine in Hong Kong has been slow. Hong Kong’s monopolistic health care system provides an answer for the protracted development of telemedicine in the region. This study attempts to reach a theoretical und...

Telemedicine has been acknowledged to improve the quality of healthcare. However, many telemedicine services fail beyond the pilot phase. A literature review on business model components for telemedicine services was conducted. Based on specified inclusion criteria, 22 publications were included in the review. To facilitate the analysis of literature, a business model framework with value as it...

UNLABELLED The benefits of Telemedicine make it a viable, reliable and useful discipline for dispensing health care. This qualitative study is aimed to understand the expectations, opinions and previous knowledge of the professionals about telemedicine at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. RESULTS Professionals realize that Telemedicine is inserted into their usual practice in an informal...

To investigate whether forensic evaluations can be performed reliably using telemedicine, we compared the results on a standard competency assessment instrument using telemedicine (TM) and live interviews (LI). Two board-certified forensic psychiatrists used the Georgia Court Competency Test (GCCT) to evaluate 21 forensic psychiatric inpatients. Half of the patients were randomly assigned to a ...

Telemedicine has become an increasingly popular option for long-distance/virtual medical care and education, but many telemedicine ventures fail to grow beyond the initial pilot stage. Studying the business models of successful telemedicine ventures can help develop business strategies for upcoming ventures. This article describes business models of eight telemedicine ventures from different re...