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- Title
La Telesalud y la sociedad actual: retos y oportunidades.
- Authors
Catalán-Matamoros, Daniel; López-Villegas, Antonio
- Abstract
Telehealth has experienced a great development during the last decades, due to all the advantages that it brings to health systems. National governments and international institutions are working in programs and guidelines aiming to ensure an effective development. Telehealth should be understood as an instrument, not as an objective, aiming to improve health services and quality of life. With these regards, the main objective of this article is to present the telehealth field from a social perspective, and reflect about the current challenges and opportunities. The model person-centred telehealth is discussed and its use is suggested in future telehealth care services. Telehealth provides many advantages to health systems by increasing the system sustainability, improving the demand management, reducing hospital stays, decreasing the number of health consultations and travels, improving communication among clinicians and users' access to healthcare services. However, there are still some challenges that need to be addressed by allowing better integration of the information systems, improving data security and confidenciality, as well as creating training programs for both clinicians and users.
- Publication
Revista Espanola de Comunicacion en Salud, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2, p336
- ISSN
1989-9882
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.20318/recs.2016.3458