edited by Michael Rigby, Ruth Roberts, and Michael Thick ; foreword by Salah H. Mandil.
Abingdon, Oxon :
Radcliffe Medical Press,
2000.
xxix, 217 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm
"The Nuffield Trust."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1 Telematics in healthcare: new paradigmin, new issues -- Ruth Roberts, Michael Rigby and Katherine Birch -- 2 The development of telemedicine -- Richard Wootton -- 3 Health practice by remote expert: a case study from -- mid-Sweden -- Gustav Malmquist, Ulf Hansson, Ake Qvarnstr6m and -- G6ran Carlsson -- 4 Remote electronic knowledge bases and information -- services: their compilation and quality assurance -- Jari Forsstr6m -- 5 Evaluating the impact of telemedicine on health -- professionals and patients -- Jeremy Wyatt -- 6 Telemedicine and the protection of patient interests: -- experiences from Norway -- Irma Iversen -- 7 Telemedicine in primary care: evaluating the effects on -- health practice and health practitioners -- Paul Wallace -- 8 Ensuring clinical ownership of telemedicine: a nursing case -- study -- Lorraine Gerrard, Adrian M Grant and J Ross Maclean -- 9 Societal and professional issues of telematics in healthcare -- Jose Garcia de Ancos -- 10 Clinical issues: controls and safeguards -- Stephanie Bown -- 11 Preserving privacy in telemedicine: putting the patient first -- Jonathan Bamford -- 12 Commissioning health telematics: the issues to be -- addressed -- Judith Greenacre -- 13 Effective commissioning of telematics: lessons from the -- introduction of an integrated clinical communications -- system in Teesside -- Rosemary Taylor -- 14 Telemedicine: what are the benefits for patients and are -- their interests represented? -- Frances Presley -- 15 Identifying the European legal and ethical issues of -- emergent health telematics -- Petra Wilson -- 16 Key issues in taking health telematics safely and ethically -- into the 21st century -- Michael Rigby, Katherine Birch and Ruth Roberts -- 17 And into the 21st century: telecommunications and the -- global clinic -- Michael Rigby -- Index.