title: Experiences and perspectives in using telematic prevention on sensitive health issues.
abstract: The new information and communication technologies, telematics - such as the Internet, telephone services and videoconferencing - are simultaneously both an instrument and a symbol - a sign of progress - but also a potential addiction problem. Sensitive topics - like substances or mental health - bring out all these characteristics of telematics. Therefore the computer world, substances and addictions are closely connected.
authors.affiliation: Head of Information Department, Helsinki, Finland. teuvo.peltoniemi@a-klinikka.fi
authors.forename: Teuvo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Peltoniemi
mesh_terms: D001292:Attitude to Computers; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000517:prevention & control; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface