Product Description

E–Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands–on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and and technical options.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1110049 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Review
"The authors bring diverse expertise to the book." (E–Streams, 3/02)

"Having read this book, you are now well enough informed to plan what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when." (APA Review of Books, 2003)

Review
"The authors bring diverse expertise to the book." (E–Streams, 3/02)

"Having read this book, you are now well enough informed to plan what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when." (APA Review of Books, 2003)

From the Back Cover
Access the power of health care telecommunication technologies E–Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands–on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step, the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and technical options. E–Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine also includes illustrative examples of e–health, telehealth, and telemedicine models from successful health care organizations.

"For anyone interested in the electronic revolution that is transforming health care worldwide, Maheu, Whitten, and Allen go to the heart of the matter. I consider this book essential reading."
—G. Edward Kriese, CEO, MedicalRecord.com

"This book provides an insightful and up–to–date overview of the maturing influence that telecommunications and information technologies have on the social, legal, economic, and quality issues that impact our health care delivery system. It helps us speculate about how the future landscape will look."
—Jay Sanders, president and CEO, The Global Telemedicine Group

"A must–read book filled with a wealth of practical information about e–health, telehealth, and telemedicine. Written in a very understandable style aimed to meet the needs of health practitioners, not technologists."
—Warren B. Karp, professor of pediatrics and coordinator of telemedicine and distance learning activities, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia