[Possibilities and limitations of telemedical home monitoring in ophthalmology].
For medical professionals, home monitoring represents an innovative health service for remote patient care: The patient may remain in his or her domestic environment and continue normal activities. The physician can also, through technical and organizational integration, provide medical attendance from his or her usual working environment. All in all, in the near future home monitoring can help provide sufficient health services while also enabling medical resources to be used more effectively. The patient may benefit from individually optimized treatment and active integration into medical care. The better we manage the technical, organizational, medical, legal, and economic challenges of telemedicine, the better we can minimize the limitations of telemedical home monitoring. Other existing subjective concerns will be eliminated only if telemedical concepts are adapted to the specific needs of affected patients and physicians.
Jürgens
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Klinik und Poliklinik für Augenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald. juergens@uni-greifswald.de
Grossjohann
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Tost
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