E-Health, telehealth, and telemedicine [electronic resource] : a guide to start-up and success / Marlene M. Maheu, Pamela Whitten, Ace Allen ; foreword by Evan Melrose

E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and and technical options.