Despite the growing use of telemedicine technology in civilian and military health care,
relatively little work has been performed in the area of evaluation. To address this deficiency …

In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to
Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on …

Objective To assess the level of consensus among the administrative and health care
leaders at rural Iowa hospitals regarding service gaps and priorities for developing …

Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications in Health Care (Marilyn J. Field,
ed., National Academy Press, 1996; ISBN 0-309-05531-8 [cloth], 271 pages) is a useful …

Abstract The Department of Defense has recently devoted significant resources to
telemedicine projects. This effort has arisen due to dramatic, parallel developments in …

This paper discusses two conceptual models intended to facilitate research on the effects
and effectiveness of telemedicine. The first is a conceptual framework to study the efficacy of …

Telemedicine is the application of modern telecommunications to the practice of medicine.
Telemedicine is particularly appealing to rural and under served areas. Applications of …

This retrospective study analyzed telemedicine consultations from deployed military medical
units in Somalia, Haiti, Croatia, and Macedonia to determine the clinical utility of …

TELEMEDICINE can be broadly defined as the use of telecommunications technologies to
provide medical information and services. Although this definition includes medical uses of …

Discusses the growing popularity of telemedicine in the United States. Application of
multimedia technologies for education in the field of telemedicine; Obstacles to greater use …