Telemedicine and the role of the health information manager.

Telemedicine involves the use of rapidly evolving technology that carries enormous promise to improve the current level of medical care. In order to achieve these expectations, some barriers beyond its technological development must be overcome. These are primarily legal and regulatory issues that must be resolved by the current stakeholders. These barriers arise from the fact that a newly developing telemedicine technology changes the way clinical care is delivered to the population and documented.