(...) Among all aspects of eHealth, remote delivery of health services using ICT, or, in short, “tele-medicine” or “tele-health”, probably represents the most radical concept. By doing away with many traditional notions concerning physical contact between doctor and patient and by transcending distances, it exhibits the potential for transforming care well beyond our current perceptions. Implemented effectively and deployed at scale, telemedicine can dramatically reduce hospital admissions; it can provide better quality of life, especially for long term conditions patients, and can contribute decisively to the sustainability of national healthcare systems.
Despite these advantages, which rely on ICT’s ability to defy distances, telemedicine appears not to have yet penetrated European healthcare services to a degree which is commensurate with corresponding results from research and promising pilot applications.
A serious challenge emerges ahead. (...)
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