| Literature DB >> 25516192 |
Parmvir Parmar1, David Mackie2, Sunil Varghese2, Curtis Cooper3.
Abstract
Telemedicine technologies are rapidly being integrated into infectious diseases programs with the aim of increasing access to infectious diseases specialty care for isolated populations and reducing costs. We summarize the utility and effectiveness of telemedicine in the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases patients. The use of telemedicine in the management of acute infectious diseases, chronic hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus, and active pulmonary tuberculosis is considered. We recapitulate and evaluate the advantages of telemedicine described in other studies, present challenges to adopting telemedicine, and identify future opportunities for the use of telemedicine within the realm of clinical infectious diseases.Entities:
Keywords: HIV; hepatitis C virus; infectious diseases; telemedicine; tuberculosis
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25516192 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu1143
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079