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Telemedicine
Author(s) -
Yellowlees Peter,
McCoy William T
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb137958.x
Subject(s) - telemedicine , citation , library science , mental health , health care , psychology , media studies , medicine , sociology , computer science , psychiatry , political science , law
Ideally, health care is a communication-intensive process and information that relates to problem-solving and treatment regimens is exchanged constantly among health workers and between patients and their health-care providers. The primary health-care teams in a remote area of Queensland were linked with their base hospital, regional hospitals, a teaching hospital and an aerial retrieval team by means of AUSSAT 1. This article describes the changes in the health workers' consultations and in their patient-management practices when they used the satellite communications network. These changes resulted in improved health care and reduced some health-care costs.