Technology and economic assessment of telemedicine
Subtitle: an example of DoD MEDNET in region three
By: Kirk Lorne Buker
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Description: The Department of Defense (DoD) has numerous initiatives underway to improve the health care delivery system within the military. Telemedicine is one of these initiatives that combine images, videos, sounds, and text to enhance the health care providers' ability to diagnosis and treat patients. The Secretary of the Army in October 1994 established, "The Center for Total Access" as a laboratory for healthcare re-engineering in the military. This thesis is provided as a resource guide to inform those who may become involved with this complex and chaotic field of telemedicine by providing a review of state-of-the- art technology that can support delivery of telemedicine, and by proposing a cost benefit framework for telemedicine configuration design. The material for this thesis was primarily researched utilizing Internet web browsing technologies. A review of the Tri-Service Infrastructure Management Program Office (TIMPO) project (MEDNET) is outlined as working example of a large regional telemedicine I telehealth system which was found to be the most revealing in the study of telemedicine.
Notes: "September 1997."

Thesis advisor(s): Tung Bui, William J. Haga.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-114).

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited.

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