RASHID L. BASHSHUR, Ph. D., 1 SALAH H. MANDIL, Ph. D., 2 and GARY W. SHANNON,
Ph. D. 3 1Director of Telemedicine, University of Michigan Health Center, Ann Arbor …

THIS CHAPTER:(1) summarizes the state of the art in selected clinical applications of
telemedicine;(2) identifies basic issues pertinent to expanding clinical applications; and,(3) …

Objectives Healthcare is now routinely delivered by telecommunications-based services in
all developed countries and an increasing number of developing countries. Telemedicine is …

Nearly half a century ago, telemedicine was disregarded for being an unwieldy, unreliable,
and unaffordable technology. Rapidly evolving telecommunications and information …

Withthis issue, we begin the fourth year of the Telemedicine Journal, yet it feels as if we
started only yesterday. The Journal was founded to disseminate knowledge about the …

Fundamentals of Telemedicine and Telehealth provides an overview on the use of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) to solve health problems, especially for …

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 …

AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on the state-ofart in telemedicine/telehealth was
conducted on the campus of the University of Michigan on August 23–25, 2001. The …

Although the introduction of new technologies has been successful and become accepted
practice in many areas of industry, traditional methods have tended to prevail in health-care …

Telemedicine uses advanced telecommunication technologies to exchange health
information and provide health care services across geographic, time, social, and cultural …