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Telehealth Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 4 Number 1 Jan / Feb 1997 69 mates were the labor costs of the time spent by the Telehealth: The Need two interacting physicians and the approximately 30 minutes of staff time needed to gather and convert for Evaluation physical records, including diagnostic images, to elec- tronic form (or to convert electronic information to a form usable by the teleconferencing system) prior to This issue of the Journal presents reports of five health the consult session. care telecommunications projects that span a wide range of methods, applications, and users. One clearly Comparably detailed expense data are not available discernible theme joining these projects is the celebra- in the demonstration telemedicine and health infor- tion of the technical feasibility of conveying health- mation projects described by Lindberg, Balch and 4 5 related information and direct patient services at a Tichenor, and Morris et al., although evaluations are distance. For example, London et al. describe a dem- planned or under way. In an increasingly cost-con- onstration project to improve cancer-related commu- scious health care environment, information systems nications between a university cancer center and its developers will confront blunt questions of compar- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Oxford University Press

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
American Medical Informatics Association
ISSN
1067-5027
eISSN
1527-974X
DOI
10.1136/jamia.1997.0040069
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Abstract

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 4 Number 1 Jan / Feb 1997 69 mates were the labor costs of the time spent by the Telehealth: The Need two interacting physicians and the approximately 30 minutes of staff time needed to gather and convert for Evaluation physical records, including diagnostic images, to elec- tronic form (or to convert electronic information to a form usable by the teleconferencing system) prior to This issue of the Journal presents reports of five health the consult session. care telecommunications projects that span a wide range of methods, applications, and users. One clearly Comparably detailed expense data are not available discernible theme joining these projects is the celebra- in the demonstration telemedicine and health infor- tion of the technical feasibility of conveying health- mation projects described by Lindberg, Balch and 4 5 related information and direct patient services at a Tichenor, and Morris et al., although evaluations are distance. For example, London et al. describe a dem- planned or under way. In an increasingly cost-con- onstration project to improve cancer-related commu- scious health care environment, information systems nications between a university cancer center and its developers will confront blunt questions of compar-

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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