The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary

by Institute of Medicine and Board on Health Care Services

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 Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309262011
• ISBN13: 9780309262019
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"