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11 Telemedicine Tools Transforming Healthcare
What's fueling the healthcare industry's interest in telemedicine?
Better mobile technologies and more mature electronic health records
(EHRs) and clinical decision support (CDS) systems lead the list. Also, as
the baby boomer generation ages, medical expert shortages arise in many
specialties. InformationWeek
Other Nursing Informatics & HIT Blogs of Interest
Nursing Informatics & Technology: A Blog for All Levels of Users
News from healthcareitnews.com
mobihealthnews
iHealthBeat
Health information technology improves care and saves lives
AHRQ Research about: * Telemedicine * School Health * Health Maintenance
Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.