Department of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, Children's Mercy, Kansas City, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA.
Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2018 Aug 25;18(10):54. doi: 10.1007/s11882-018-0808-4.
Due to rapid advancements in quality of real-time, interactive, audio-visual, and digital technologies as well as impressive gains in internet speed and capacity, medicine delivered over distance is happening faster than many healthcare providers and leaders can grasp.
Depending on which market report you ascribe to, industry projections for the global compounded annual growth rate of telemedicine are between 13 and 27%, with valuation growing to over 20 billion US dollars in the next several years. The Mayo Clinic has reworked its entire telemedicine interest to a model with centralized operations, one virtual technology platform, standardized training, and connectedness for all of its locations. The National Quality Forum spent 2016 and 2017 formulating 70 some pages of recommendations for expanded measures to valuate telemedicine over the foreseeable future. There are so many patient experience studies indicating high satisfaction with telemedicine, that professionals in the industry accept it as fact. Telemedicine is leaving novel to the past. This short, informative piece of writing includes expert opinion and research findings about what is telemedicine, why one should practice telemedicine, and how one should approach implementation; a primer from which to grow.
目的综述：由于实时、互动、视听和数字技术的质量迅速提高，以及互联网速度和容量的显著提升，远程医疗的发展速度之快，超过了许多医疗服务提供者和领导者的理解能力。
最近发现：根据你所参考的市场报告，远程医疗的全球复合年增长率预计在 13%至 27%之间，未来几年的估值将超过 200 亿美元。梅奥诊所（Mayo Clinic）已将其所有远程医疗服务重新整合为一种模式，即采用集中运营、一个虚拟技术平台、标准化培训，并将其所有分支机构连接起来。国家质量论坛（National Quality Forum）在 2016 年和 2017 年用了两年时间制定了 70 多页的建议，以扩大对未来可预见的远程医疗的评估措施。有如此多的患者体验研究表明，患者对远程医疗非常满意，以至于业内专业人士都认为这是事实。远程医疗已经超越了新奇。这篇简短而内容丰富的文章包含了有关远程医疗是什么、为什么要进行远程医疗以及如何进行远程医疗实施的专家意见和研究结果；这是一个很好的入门材料。
