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What is Telehealth/Telemedicine

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Technoethics
The use of ICT to share and to maintain patient health information and to provide clinical care and health education to patients and professionals when distance separates the participants.
Published in Chapter:
Healthcare Ethics in the Information Age
Keith Bauer (Marquette University, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-022-6.ch012
Abstract
This chapter reviews key debates about the meaning of telehealth and also considers how new and emerging systems in telehealth work to protect patient confidentiality, improve healthcare relationships, and diminish instances of compromised access and equity in the healthcare system. This chapter also looks at how these same telehealth systems could undermine those goals, making it important to assess the way in which these emerging technologies are implemented. Various technologies are examined to show how their implementation can ensure that their benefits outweigh their risks.
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