Health Care Services

Telemedicine, Supplement

August 2001


Clinical Focus*

For this supplemental report, the questions were applied to studies in all three practice areas as a whole group within each of the three categories of telemedicine services:

  1. Store-and-forward.
  2. Self-monitoring/testing.
  3. Clinician-interactive services.

The specific key questions were:

  1. Does telemedicine result in comparable diagnosis and appropriateness of recommendations for management?
  2. Does the availability of telemedicine provide comparable access to care?
  3. Does telemedicine result in comparable health outcomes?
  4. Does telemedicine result in patient or clinician satisfaction with care?
  5. Does telemedicine result in comparable costs of care and/or cost-effectiveness?

*Addressed in the summary or evidence report.


Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Pediatric, Obstetric, and Clinician-Indirect Home Interventions
Summary (Publication No. 01-E059, August 2001)
Evidence Report (Publication No. 01-E060, August 2001)
(File Download)

EPC: Oregon Health & Science University
Topic Nominator: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services


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