Telemedicine in Hospitals: Issues in Implementation

by Sherry Emery

Overview

This book looks at the history and development of telemedicine and its effect on the medical profession. It includes advances in telecommunications and medical technologies that greatly have increased the reliability, resolution, and speed of transmitting medical images, changes that are have been affected by changes in the national and global economies and the support to rural hospitals during the 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317733188
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/17/2015
Series:	Health Care Policy in the United States
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	155
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Sherry Emery

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Background and related literature 2.1 Telemedicine: The range of possibilities 2.2 Government involvement in telemedicine 2.3 Telemedicine and public policy 2.4 Empirical documentation of telemedicine benefits Chapter 3. Review of the diffusion literature 3.1 Economic theories of diffusion Summary of economic diffusion concepts 3.2 Applied models of economic diffusion 3.3 Non-economic theories of diffusion Chapter 4. Conceptual framework 4.1 Research hypotheses 4.2 Modeling the problem 4.3 Defining the variables 4.4 Specification of the functional form Chapter 5. Research Design and Methods 5.1 Study design 5.2 Survey data collection 5.3 Qualitative data 5.4 Variable construction 5.5 Validity threats Chapter 6. Characteristics of the Survey Population and Descriptive Statistics 6.1 Characterization of the research context 6.2 Background information 6.2.5 Barriers to adoption 6.3 Descriptive statistics of diffusion model variables 6.4 Conclusions Chapter 7. Data Analysis, Findings, and Discussion 7.1 Bivariate analyses 7.2 Multivariate analysis: the diffusion model 7.3 Summary of bivariate and multivariate analyses Chapter 8. Conclusions and Policy Implications 8.1 Empirical research and hypothesis testing 8.2 Beyond hypotheses: Implications for rural hospitals and policy makers 18.3 Importance of this research, limitations, and directions

Editorial Reviews

Directs attention to three crucial questions: whether telemedicine improves rural health delivery, what role it plays in the economics of the health-care industry, and how necessary effective telemedicine government programs are. Describes the technology's current diffusion and identifies keys to success, noting that it has not yet benefited rural health because small hospitals generally lack the necessary financial and technical expertise to adopt it. Revised from a Ph.D. dissertation about which no further information is provided. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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