Telemedicine in Hospitals: Issues in Implementation (Health Care Policy in the United States)

This book looks at the history and development of telemedicine and its effect on the medical profession. It includes advances in telecommunications and medical technologies that greatly have increased the reliability, resolution, and speed of transmitting medical images, changes that are have been affected by changes in the national and global economies and the support to rural hospitals during the 1990s. Directs attention to three crucial questions: whether telemedicine improves rural health delivery, what role it plays in the economics of the health-care industry, and how necessary effective telemedicine government programs are. Describes the technology's current diffusion and identifies keys to s First Published in 1942. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.