Telemedicine
Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Contributors: Rashid L. Bashshur (Editor); Jay H. Sanders (Editor); Gary W. Shannon (Editor); Bellsouth Foundation (Corporate Author)
Publisher: C.C. Thomas
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780398067311
First sentence: The history of the health care system in the United States over the last four or five decades reveals a preoccupation with three tenacious problems despite various attempts to resolve them: (1) uneven geographic distribution of health care resources throughout the country, including health care facilities and health manpower; (2) inadequate access to health care on the part of certain segments of the population, including the under-privileged, isolated, and confined; (3) unabating rise in the cost of care, including the costs borne by both public and private payers.