This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the
kind of care we receive. The Doctor Who Wasn't There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for …

It has taken us three years to complete the research and the writing of this book. Throughout
this endeavor, we were guided by a determination to present, from our perspective, a …

Telemedicine, the use of communication technologies to deliver healthcare services, has
garnered significant attention during recent years as a solution to address both access and …

The fee-for-service basis for health-care delivery has been a mainstay in the health-care
business for a long time—a procedure used by individual practitioners as well as hospital …

Here, in the wee morning hours of the third millennium, we face the dawn of a new world of
health care delivery. It is a world electric in its dynamism and capacity for change. It is also a …

When telemedicine was first proposed some 30 years ago there had not yet been a moon
landing and genetic engineering had not been introduced. Through the vision of NASA and …

E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how
communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health …

We join the celebration of the 20th year of publication of this journal with a profound sense of
pride, the type that parents feel with the success of their offspring acting totally on their own …

The concept of Telemedicine is nearly 100 years old as demonstrated in an early US
magazine depiction of the “Radio Doctor” in 1924. Later in the 1960s, innovative physicians …

Over the past several decades the concept of telemedicine has evolved to be more
commonplace with many unique applications. These applications have been made possible …