The Telehealth Dilemma-Health-Care Deserts Meet the Internet's Remote Regions

The Telehealth Dilemma-Health-Care Deserts Meet the Internet's Remote Regions

Telehealth has increased health-care and specialist access to patients in health-care deserts. Stable Internet access is a deciding factor for telehealth. We observe the relation of Internet latency to health-care deserts as preliminary work toward evaluating disparities in telehealth in practice.

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Veröffentlicht in:Computer (Long Beach, Calif.) Calif.), 2023-09, Vol.56 (9), p.39-49
Hauptverfasser: Kathiravelu, Pradeeban, Fonovic, Dalibor, Grbac, Tihana Galinac, Zaiman, Zachary, Veiga, Luis, Gichoya, Judy Wawira, Purkayastha, Saptarshi, Mahmoudi, Babak
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Sprache:eng
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Deserts
Health care
Internet
Remote regions
Rural areas
Telemedicine
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Zusammenfassung:Telehealth has increased health-care and specialist access to patients in health-care deserts. Stable Internet access is a deciding factor for telehealth. We observe the relation of Internet latency to health-care deserts as preliminary work toward evaluating disparities in telehealth in practice.
ISSN:0018-9162
1558-0814
DOI:10.1109/MC.2023.3252945