Biomedical Informatics 4th Edition by Edward Shortliffe, James Cimino

Exercise 1

Telehealth has evolved from systemsdesigned primarily to support consul-tations between clinicians to systemsthat provide direct patient care. Thishas required changes in hardware, user interfaces, software, and processes.Discuss some of the changes that mustbe made when a system designed for useby health care professionals is modifiedto be used directly by patients.