cation technology, and have long-standing problem of improving human health in healthcare systems. The History of Telemedicine provides a comprehensive and in-depth historical view of telemedicine from ancient Greece to the present time. The authors started the task of writing the book with open mind and put aside whatever preconceived notion or information about telemedicine. Bashshur and Shan...

Objective To determine whether a diabetes case management telemedicine intervention reduced healthcare expenditures, as measured by Medicare claims, and to assess the costs of developing and implementing the telemedicine intervention. Design We studied 1665 participants in the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel), a randomized controlled trial comparing telemedicine cas...

Telemedicine as a technology has been available for nearly 50 years, but its diffusion has been slower than many had anticipated. Even efforts to reimburse providers for interactive video (IAV) telemedicine services have had a limited effect on rates of participation. The resulting low volume of services provided (and consequent paucity of research subjects) makes the phenomenon difficult to st...

Telemedicine becomes increasingly important, especially in rural areas or for rare diseases requiring an expert’s opinion. Due to the widespread use of proprietary communication protocols, existing telemedicine approaches can only incorporate a subset of relevant medical devices. Thus, the remote physician is dependent on on-site colleagues and video-based reading of the device and medical para...

BACKGROUND Health-e-Access, an urban telemedicine service, enabled 6,511 acute-illness telemedicine visits over a 7-year period for children at 22 childcare and school sites in Rochester, NY. OBJECTIVES The aims of this article were to (1) describe provider attitudes and perceptions about efficiency and effectiveness of Health-e-Access and (2) assess hypotheses that (a) providers will complet...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic literature review to determine what telemedicine services are provided by pharmacists and the impact of these services in the nursing facility setting. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE®, Scopus®, and Embase® databases. STUDY SELECTION The terms "telemedicine" or "telehealth" were combined by "and" with the terms "pharmacist" or "pharmacy" to identify pharmacists' use o...

A rural-urban disparity exists in acute stroke management practices in Arizona. A proposed solution is a statewide acute stroke care plan centered on stroke telemedicine. Our purpose was to evaluate the emergency stroke resources available at and care provided by remote Arizona hospitals and to formulate a 5-year stroke telemedicine plan for Arizona rural residents. We used the Arizona Hospital...

Background and aims: By incidence of modern technologies in different areas such as medicine which has been recognized as Telemedicine. This technology can play important role in increases quality level of medical services and health treatments. For successful increase of implementation and development of this technology in Iran needs to provide cultural, legal, political, social and technologi...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to review the current telemedicine of the Korea and the telemedicine of the other countries. METHODS This study reviewed several documents on telemedicine and summarized the documents on the initiation of the telemedicine of the Korea, the recent regulations of the government, the analytical research results, and the telemedicine of foreign countries. ...

BACKGROUND As the number of US burn centers has declined, access to burn care is increasingly limited. Inexperience in burn wound assessment by referring physicians often results in overtriage or undertriage. In an effort to improve access to burn care in our region, we instituted a program of telemedicine evaluation of acute burns. METHODS We created a telemedicine network linking our burn c...