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Introducing telemedicine within a health informatics curriculum.
Abstract
Telemedicine, defined as the use of advanced telecommunications technologies to bridge distance and support health care delivery and education, is an essential part of health informatics. The current U.S. market for telemedicine is growing rapidly and its growth rate is predicted to increase even more in the following years. A telemedicine course becomes an essential part of a medical informatics training program. This paper discusses the introduction and integration of telemedicine into a medical informatics curriculum and proposes a framework for the course design that covers the following sections: definitions, introduction to technical aspects of ...
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