Standards and Guidelines in Telemedicine and Telehealth.
Standards and Guidelines in Telemedicine and Telehealth.
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DOI：
10.3390/healthcare2010074
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发表时间：
2014-02-12
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Bernard J
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作者：
Krupinski EA;Bernard J
制定远程医疗指南和标准是一个重要而有价值的过程，有助于确保有效和安全地提供优质医疗服务。一些组织，如美国远程医疗协会（ATA），已将制定标准和准则作为优先事项。到目前为止制定的实践准则得到了远程医疗界的好评，并在许多实践中得到采用，并被用于支持远程医疗实践和发展的研究。利用已发表的指南进行的研究不仅有助于提高公众的认识，而且还提供了验证现有指南所需的证据，并指导未来版本的修订。远程医疗将继续增长，并以各种形式被更多的医疗从业者和患者采用，而不仅仅是在传统的临床环境中，实践指南将是促进这种增长的关键因素。制定指南对付款人和监管机构非常重要，他们越来越多地采用并将其纳入法规和政策。本文将回顾最近ATA在制定远程医疗实践指南方面的一些努力，回顾研究在指南制定中的作用，回顾有关其使用的数据，并讨论一些仍然需要指南的领域。
The development of guidelines and standards for telemedicine is an important and valuable process to help insure effective and safe delivery of quality healthcare. Some organizations, such as the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), have made the development of standards and guidelines a priority. The practice guidelines developed so far have been well received by the telemedicine community and are being adopted in numerous practices, as well as being used in research to support the practice and growth of telemedicine. Studies that utilize published guidelines not only help bring them into greater public awareness, but they also provide evidence needed to validate existing guidelines and guide the revision of future versions. Telemedicine will continue to grow and be adopted by more healthcare practitioners and patients in a wide variety of forms not just in the traditional clinical environments, and practice guidelines will be a key factor in fostering this growth. Creation of guidelines is important to payers and regulators as well as increasingly they are adopting and integrating them into regulations and policies. This paper will review some of the recent ATA efforts in developing telemedicine practice guidelines, review the role of research in guidelines development, review data regarding their use, and discuss some of areas where guidelines are still needed.