Telematics for Health: The Role of Telehealth and Telemedicine in Homes and Communities

by Marjorie Gott

Electronic communications are already revolutionizing the delivery of health care in homes and communities. The medium will have increasing impact on the delivery of health care in response to the pressure to use limited resources cost-effectively. To date much of telematics in health care has focused on hospital-based bio-medicine. In this book a case is made for reorientation of telematic activity towards the use of "low tech" (social) technologies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857750233
• ISBN13: 9781857750232
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"