Telemedicine involves the transfer of medical data for use in diagnosis, treatment and
education. The interaction may involve two-way live audio and video visits between patients …

Book Review Page 1 Book Review Review of Telemedicine Technologies: Information
Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth by Bernard Fong, ACM Fong, and CK Li Lisa Hickey …

Telemedicine usually refers to the use of information-based technologies, such as, computer
and communications systems, to provide healthcare across geographic distances. Although …

This manuscript addresses several aspects of the current status of telemedicine in the
United States. Telemedicine programs have been in existence since the 1960s, but only in …

Objective To identify states that have played a key role in promoting, developing, and
supporting telemedicine initiatives aimed at improving access to basic health care and to …

Background Telemedicine emerged in the 1950's and declined during the 1970s and 1980s.
Its reemergence in the 1990s generally tracks communications technological advances …

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 …

Telemedicine, literally medicine at a distance, is the delivery of health care over long
distances using medical knowledge combined with communications and computer …

The best form of force protection is to be able to offer your soldiers the highest level of
medical care, both before and after they become ill or injured. This has been the goal of …

This column in the Journal is dedicated to a review and analysis of federal and state health
policy issues and support for telemedicine pro-grams. Our purpose is not limited to a simple …