TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Telemedicine
A1  - Cucina, Russ
A2  - Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2  - McPhee, Stephen J.
A2  - Rabow, Michael W.
PY  - 2020
T2  - Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2020
AB  - Telemedicine  is  the  use  of  information  and  communications  technologies  to  provide  health  care  when  distance  separates  the  participants.  Clinicians  have  been  practicing  telemedicine  over  the  telephone  since  the  telephone  was  invented.  Telemedicine  applications  of  the  past  20  years  have  focused  on  interactive  video  to  connect  patients  and  referring  clinicians  in  remote  locations  with  specialists  in  urban  tertiary  care  centers.  The  current  generation  of  telemedicine  applications  expands  the  remote  clinician’s  capabilities  beyond  diagnosis  to  therapeutic  interventions.  Telesurgery,  remote  psychotherapy,  and  virtual  home  visits  to  manage  chronic  medical  problems  have  all  been  demonstrated,  although  deployment  continues  to  grow  only  slowly  in  most  regions.  Remote  monitoring  of  chronic  medical  conditions  using  networked  medical  devices  such  as  blood  pressure  cuffs  or  blood  glucose  monitors  is  increasingly  popular,  particularly  as  Accountable  Care  Organizations  (ACO)  are  incentivized  to  provide  long-term  disease  management  as  cost-effectively  as  possible.  Multiple  websites  describe  these  and  other  innovative  uses  of  telemedicine  for  interested  clinicians  to  explore  (Table  e3–3).  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2022/05/21
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1165970881
ER  -