OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to analyse telemedicine as a new means to improve health care accessibility. METHOD: A case study design was used to understand how medical specialists perceived, made sense of, and appropriated a teleconsultation system. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The technology was used neither in the manner nor to the extent anticipated by its designers...
Keywords: Telemedicine, teleconsultation, users’ mediated use, information and communication technology (ICT)
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer