Perspectives on Medical Outsourcing and Telemedicine — Rough Edges in a Flat World?  

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Singh, Sanjiv N. ; Wachter, Robert M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 15 (Apr. 2008), page 1622.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Low-cost labor, time zone differences, and telecommunication advances have "flattened" the world of business and services1; however, health care has been relatively insulated from these world-flattening forces until recently. In particular, the fundamental physicality of medicine — the need to examine a patient or look at a chart or radiograph — prohibited the remote outsourcing that was possible in manufacturing or call centers.2 However, digitized health care now permits the outsourcing of a range of medical services, from clinical diagnostics to direct care. Although outsourcing of any type triggers predictable worries,3 outsourcing of health care raises special issues. Health . . .

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