Telemedicine is a health service intervention involving the remote communication of information for clinical care. Now in its second edition, this revised text meets a growing need for a straightforward overview of telemedicine. Rather than presenting telemedicine as the application of a specific technology, the authors are explicit about the health service dimension, the types of services, and the building blocks required indeed most useful for an audience of health care workers considering telemedicine.
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- Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales, NSW
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