{"title":"A Focus on Telehealth","authors":"M. Ackerman, B. Humphreys","doi":"10.1136/jamia.1997.0040068","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The title and theme of the 1996 AMIA Spring Congress was “Conquering Distance: Teleinformatics, Telemedicine, Telehealth.” In her welcoming statement, Betsy Humphreys, co-editor of this issue and Program Chair for the 1996 AMIA Spring Congress, wrote:\n\nHigh-speed, high band-width access to the Internet is spreading rapidly; the World Wide Web is providing cross-platform integration of text, pictures, and sound; and the technologies supporting telemedicine, informatics, public health, and education are converging. As enhanced communications help us to conquer …","PeriodicalId":344533,"journal":{"name":"J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.","volume":"1 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jamia.1997.0040068","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The title and theme of the 1996 AMIA Spring Congress was “Conquering Distance: Teleinformatics, Telemedicine, Telehealth.” In her welcoming statement, Betsy Humphreys, co-editor of this issue and Program Chair for the 1996 AMIA Spring Congress, wrote:
High-speed, high band-width access to the Internet is spreading rapidly; the World Wide Web is providing cross-platform integration of text, pictures, and sound; and the technologies supporting telemedicine, informatics, public health, and education are converging. As enhanced communications help us to conquer …