title: A look into the desktop telemedicine crystal ball.
abstract: Health care providers are constantly moving, rarely remaining at their desks. They meet and greet, touch and examine, go from room-to-room, walk from building to building. Therefore, telemedicine tethered to a desktop is inherently foreign to the work habits of many clinicians. Rather than requiring a change in practice habits, emerging technology will be better adopted to the work styles of clinicians. Desktop telemedicine will make a difference, but personal telemedicine makes more sense. There is a distinction.
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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*