The Taxonomy of Telemedicine
The Taxonomy of Telemedicine
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DOI：
10.1089/tmj.2011.0103
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发表时间：
2011-07-01
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Grigsby, Jim
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作者：
Bashshur, Rashid;Shannon, Gary;Grigsby, Jim
这篇文章的目的是提出一个远程医疗的分类。该领域已经显着增长，应用程序，各种技术和新引入的术语越来越多。一个分类法将有助于使概念清晰，这一新兴的一套替代方案，以在人的医疗保健提供。文章首先简要讨论了分类学作为信息管理策略的重要性，以促进知识共享，促进研究和政策举措，并为远程医疗的有序发展提供一些指导。我们提供了一个相关概念的扩散，如远程医疗，电子健康，移动健康，以及这些概念的内容的分类的概念背景。我们主要关心的是开发一个明确的远程医疗分类，并展示它如何可以用来提供有关远程医疗的成本，质量和访问方面的真实效果的确切信息。分类法的开发和细化是一个迭代过程。如果这种初步的分类尝试证明是有用的，主题专家可以通过测试，修订和验证这种分类来促进远程医疗的发展和推广。
The purpose of this article is to present a taxonomy for telemedicine. The field has markedly grown, with an increasing number of applications, a variety of technologies, and newly introduced terminology. A taxonomy would serve to bring conceptual clarity to this burgeoning set of alternatives to in-person healthcare delivery. The article starts with a brief discussion of the importance of taxonomy as an information management strategy to improve knowledge sharing, facilitate research and policy initiatives, and provide some guidance for the orderly development of telemedicine. We provide a conceptual context for the proliferation of related concepts, such as telehealth, e-health, and m-health, as well as a classification of the content of these concepts. Our main concern is to develop an explicit taxonomy of telemedicine and to demonstrate how it can be used to provide definitive information about the true effects of telemedicine in terms of cost, quality, and access. Taxonomy development and refinement is an iterative process. If this initial attempt at classification proves useful, subject matter experts could enhance the development and proliferation of telemedicine by testing, revising, and verifying this taxonomy.