Spurred by national policy initiatives and supported by the growing power of computers, technology, and telecommunications, telehealth applications are now up and running. This book explores consumer informatics and telemedicine as the means to evolve toward what the Institute of Medicine envisioned in its landmark reports on the electronic medical record, patient safety, and quality care.

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1 Collaborative Healthware.- 2 PatientSite: Patient-Centered Communication, Services, and Access to Information.- 3 HeartCare: A Scalable Technological Solution to the Challenges of Posthospitalization Recovery from CABG Surgery.- 4 A Clinic in Every Home.- 5 PCASSO: Vanguard in Patient Empowerment.- 6 Consumer Expectations Demand Client-Focused Technology: So Near, Yet So Far.- 7 Steps Toward Reliable Online Consumer Health Information.- 8 Models of Health Care and the Consumer Perspective of Telehealth in the Information Age.- 9 The Convergence of Health Promotion and the Internet.- 10 Patient Empowerment, Cybermedicine, and Medical Education.- 11 Telemedicine in Disease Management.- 12 The Medical Traveler Abroad: Implications for Telemedicine.- Epilogue Power to the Patient.