University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2010 Jan;25(1):59-71. doi: 10.1080/19371910902911206.
Telemedicine, the use of advanced communication technologies in the healthcare context, has a rich history and a clear evolutionary course. In this paper, the authors identify telemedicine as operationally defined, the services and technologies it comprises, the direction telemedicine has taken, along with its increased acceptance in the healthcare communities. The authors also describe some of the key pitfalls warred with by researchers and activists to advance telemedicine to its full potential and lead to an unobstructed team of technicians to identify telemedicine's diverse utilities. A discussion and future directions section is included to provide fresh ideas to health communication and computer-mediated scholars wishing to delve into this area and make a difference to enhance public understanding of this field.
远程医疗,即在医疗保健环境中使用先进的通信技术,具有丰富的历史和明确的发展轨迹。在本文中,作者将远程医疗定义为操作性定义,描述了它所包含的服务和技术、远程医疗的发展方向以及它在医疗保健界的日益普及。作者还描述了一些研究人员和活动家在推动远程医疗充分发挥潜力和组建一个无障碍的技术团队以确定远程医疗的多样化用途时所面临的关键难题。讨论和未来方向部分包括为希望深入研究这一领域并做出改变以提高公众对这一领域的理解的健康传播和计算机媒介学者提供新的思路。