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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
On the Boundaries of Telemedicine
verfasst von : Gunnar Ellingsen
Erschienen in: New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies
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For several years, telemedicine practitioners have struggled to establish their field as an autonomous scientific discipline, which is often reflected in diverging definitions of what telemedicine is. However, the telemedicine community depends on and draws heavily on established scientific areas such as medicine, economics, informatics and social science, which each have their own criteria for good scientific work. In addition, new technological innovations appear to pave the way for new applications within the field, thus challenging perceptions of what the field encompasses. The aim of this paper is to contribute to this debate by conceptualizing the notion of telemedicine as being something people do rather than numerous definitions of what the field is.