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What is Inquirer

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Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health
Legal or physical person representing a clinical case for the teleconsultation. Most frequently inquirer is the “face-to-face” physician/nurse, also - patient or relatives (in case of self-reference for teleconsultation, “second opinion”).
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Telemedicine Consultations in Daily Clinical Practice: Systems, Organisation, Efficiency
Anton V. Vladzymyrskyy (Association for Ukrainian Telemedicine and eHealth Development & Donetsk R&D Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Ukraine)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch018
Abstract
This chapter introduces usage of telemedicine consultations in daily clinical practice. Author has describe process of teleconsultation, sample schemes of systems, parties of this process and its roles. Also, main steps of clinical teleconsultation (determination of necessity for teleconsultation, preparation of medical information, observance of ethics and law conditions, preparation of conclusion) are shown. Special part is dedicated to efficiency of teleconsultation – author has propose own complex method for estimation of it. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding of teleconsultations’ process will make it more accessible and easy-to-use for medical practitioners.
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