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First published March 28, 2003 as JAMIA PrePrint; doi:10.1197/jamia.M1280
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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 10:310-314 (2003)
© 2003 American Medical Informatics Association

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Integration of Telemedicine in Graduate Medical Informatics Education

George Demiris, PhD

Affiliation of the author: Health Management and Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, Missouri

Correspondence and reprints: George Demiris, PhD, Health Management and Informatics, 324 Clark Hall, Columbia, MO 65211; e-mail: <demirisg{at}health.missouri.edu>.

Received for publication: 10/24/02; accepted for publication: 01/27/03.

An essential part of health informatics is telemedicine, the use of advanced telecommunications technologies to bridge distance and support health care delivery and education. This report discusses the integration of telemedicine into a medical informatics curriculum and, specifically, a framework for a telemedicine course. Within this framework, the objectives and exit competencies are presented and course sections are described: definitions, introduction to technical aspects of telemedicine, evolution of telemedicine and its impact on health care delivery, success and failure factors, and legal and ethical issues. The emphasis is on literature review tools, practical exposure to products and applications, and problem-based learning. Given the rapid advances in the telecommunication field, keeping the course material up to date becomes a challenge for the instructor who at the same time aims to equip students with the knowledge and tools they will need in their future role as decision makers to detect a need for, design, implement, maintain, or evaluate a telemedicine application.






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