Institutionalizing Telemedicine Applications: The Challenge of Legitimizing Decision-Making
During the last decades a variety of telemedicine applications have been trialed worldwide. However, telemedicine is still an example of major potential benefits that have not been fully attained. Health care regulators are still debating why institutionalizing telemedicine applications on a large s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2011-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Medical Internet Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.jmir.org/2011/3/e72/ |
| Summary: | During the last decades a variety of telemedicine applications have been trialed worldwide. However, telemedicine is still an example of major potential benefits that have not been fully attained. Health care regulators are still debating why institutionalizing telemedicine applications on a large scale has been so difficult and why health care professionals are often averse or indifferent to telemedicine applications, thus preventing them from becoming part of everyday clinical routines. We believe that the lack of consolidated procedures for supporting decision making by health care regulators is a major weakness. |
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| ISSN: | 1438-8871 |