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English: Telemedicine has been at the mainstay of patient care by offsetting the decline in outpatient visits during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) while providing critical patient continuity and limiting exposure to health systems and healthcare workers. However, there are concerns that the decline in outpatient visits has not been ...
The Current Procedural Terminology ( CPT) code set is a procedural code set developed by the American Medical Association (AMA). It is maintained by the CPT Editorial Panel. [ 1] The CPT code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among ...
Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. [ 1] It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. [ 2][ 3] Telemedicine is sometimes used as a synonym, or is used ...
The electronic health record (EHR) is a more longitudinal collection of the electronic health information of individual patients or populations. The EMR, in contrast, is the patient record created by providers for specific encounters in hospitals and ambulatory environments and can serve as a data source for an EHR. [ 6][ 7] In contrast, a ...
MAST is the most widely used framework for assessment of telemedicine in Europe. The model is used in large EU funded telemedicine project like Renewing Health, [4] United4Health, [5] Smartcare [6] and inCASA. [7] These projects include more than 20.000 patients and more than 18 randomised controlled trials.
Telepharmacy is the delivery of pharmaceutical care via telecommunications to patients in locations where they may not have direct contact with a pharmacist. It is an instance of the wider phenomenon of telemedicine, as implemented in the field of pharmacy. Telepharmacy services include drug therapy monitoring, patient counseling, prior ...
The International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) was an adaptation created by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and used in assigning diagnostic and procedure codes associated with inpatient, outpatient, and physician office utilization in the United States. The ICD-9-CM is based on the ICD-9 but ...
The Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare is a peer-reviewed journal covering the field of telemedicine and e-health. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal's Editor in Chief is Anthony Smith ( University of Queensland, Australia ). It has been in publication since 1995 and is published by SAGE Publishing.