There is no prescribed text but useful reference book includes:
E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine: A Guide to Startup and Success (Jossey-Bass Health Series) by Marlene M. Maheu, Pamela Whitten and Ace Allen (Feb 15, 2001)
Telemedicine Technologies: Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth by Bernard Fong, A.C.M. Fong and C.K. Li (Dec 28, 2010)
Telemedicine and Reinvention Healthcare Jeffrey C and Marc A.
“Far better to challenge great things, to win glorious victories, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.“
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think/talk/hear about Telemedicine? What is eHealth When did eHealth and Telemedicine Started?
Definition of Telemedicine 1/2
Telemedicine is the "use of medical information forwarded from one place to another through electronic communication means in order to increase the patient's health status"
ATA 2006
Definition of Telemedicine (2/2)
“Telemedicine is the delivery of health-care services, where distance is a critical factor, by health-care professionals using ICTs for the exchange of valid information far diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, and for the continuing education of health-care providers as well as research and evaluation, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their communities.” WHO, 1997
