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The Roles of a Nurse in Telemedical Consultations

The Roles of a Nurse in Telemedical Consultations
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Author(s): Boris A. Kobrinsky (Moscow Research Institute for Paediatrics and Children’s Surgery, Russia)and Nikolay V. Matveev (Moscow Research Institute for Paediatrics and Children’s Surgery, Russia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 12
Source title: Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Bettina Staudinger (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria), Victoria Höß (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria)and Herwig Ostermann (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch014

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Abstract

Telemedicine, or distant medical consultations using communication via electronic networks, is gradually becoming a standard of medical care delivery in distant areas worldwide, including both the most developed and the developing countries. For instance, in 2007, telemedical centres existed in 55% of the Russian regions (on average, about 4 centres in each region). In most of the cases, nurses are actively involved in the organization of various types of distant consultation. Main types of telemedical services include: (1) emergency consultations of patients by telephone, (2) telemedical consultations using videoconferences or store-and-forward systems, and (3) home telecare systems. Possible roles of nurses in different types of telemedical consultations are discussed.

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