The role of medical informatics in telemedicine is dependent on using the power of the
computerized database to not only feed patient specific information to the health care …

After reading this chapter you should know the answers to these questions: What are the key
informatics requirements for successful implementation of telehealth systems? What are …

In this study, telemedicine and the use of advanced telemedicine technologies are
explained. Telemedicine is the use of modern telecommunications and information …

Informatics has a key characteristic of a new discipline in a technically transient environment—
there is no universal definition of it. This is not surprising, given its complex and diverse …

The number and scope of telemedicine projects and applications world-wide are growing
rapidly along with exponential expansions in national and international information …

Telemedicine is a generic term which is used to define various aspects of health care at a
distance. In its broadest application, telemedicine can be defined as the use of …

THIS CHAPTER FOCUSES on the status of the technology and presents an agenda for
future development. Whereas information technology has taken giant strides in developing …

The development of telemedicine and telecare has been changed all over the world the
recent decades as practitioners and health care managers reached better understanding of …

Healthcare is a major candidate for improvement in any vision of the kinds of 'information
highways' and 'information societies' that are now being visualized. The medical information …

Objectives: The Yearbook of Medical Informatics is published annually by the International
Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and contains a selection of excellent papers on …