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17046097

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-5-28
pubmed:abstractText
Despite the great promise that telehealth holds for improving cost, quality and access, there is currently a disjunction between what we know about telehealth and system growth and performance. To better understand the relationship between these two facets of telehealth development, this paper examines trends in telehealth, both as an intellectual endeavor and as a practical means of providing health services. Although there are promising avenues for government intervention in the way of coordination, funding, and regulatory practice, lack of knowledge regarding what works and what does not work has served as a major impediment to further progress in this area. In the absence of solid empirical evidence, key decision makers entertain doubts about telehealth's effectiveness, which, in turn, limits public leadership, private investment, and the long-term integration of telehealth into the health and technological mainstream. Solving the disjuncture between research and practice will require additional clinical trials and evaluation studies that examine the efficacy of various technologies, both relative to each other and to conventional in person medical encounters. At the same time, it will require more even distribution of research across applications, service locations, regions, and nations. But the generation of additional high-quality empirical data on process, benefits, costs, and effects is only the beginning. That data must in turn be used to effectuate change. This will require researchers to take a more proactive stance in promoting use of their findings, both instrumentally, to adjust, modify or improve particular programs or policies, and conceptually, to influence how key stakeholders think about telehealth more generally.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
H
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0168-8510
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
133-41
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Solving the disjuncture between research and practice: telehealth trends in the 21st century.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Departments of Political Science and Community Health, and Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University, 67 George Street, Providence, RI 02912-1977, United States of America. edward_a_miller@brown.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Historical Article