title: [From the project to standard care. The correct assessment of the benefits of telemedicine has a key role].
abstract: The reason for this contribution is the hesitant dissemination of telemedicine procedures in the healthcare system. Because of missing benefits there are few incentives for players to use telemedicine procedures in the interest of patients.It is the aim of the work to open a discussion that differentiates the framework for the benefit assessment of telemedicine along certain criteria. The intention is to create a tool that helps to speed up necessary decisions in the committees responsible.This work develops a new categorization for telemedicine applications by differentiating between the medical model and the technical process of telemedicine application. The categories refer to the medical and economic risk level of the applications. Only applications with highest risk must, therefore, be evaluated by RCT surveys.
authors: ZTG Zentrum für Telematik und Telemedizin GmbH, Universitätsstraße 142, 44799, Bochum, Deutschland. r.beckers@ztg-nrw.de.
authors: Rainer
authors: R
authors: Beckers
authors: ZTG Zentrum für Telematik und Telemedizin GmbH, Universitätsstraße 142, 44799, Bochum, Deutschland.
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Strotbaum
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000191:economics*; D005858:Germany; D017048:Health Care Costs; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Cost-benefit assessment; Evaluation; Methods; Process; Telemedicine