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KMID : 0858820130300020023
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2013 Volume.30 No. 2 p.23 ~ p.39
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Experience on Telemedicine Use of Community Health Practitioners
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Kwon Myung-Soon
Park Dong-Jin
Choi Joung-Hwa
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study was conducted to investigate practical experiences of telemedicine of community health practitioners(CHPs).
Methods: Qualitative data were collected by in-depth interviews from 10 CHPs who have experiences in managing telemedicine system. All interviews were recorded and transcribed according to qualitative conventional content analysis processes.
Results: As a result, 32 themes were deduced and 11 theme clusters and 3 categories were formed and each coding categories were derived directly from the text data. 11 theme clusters derived from the 32 meaningful themes were as follows: Human resources, equipments and systems, computer program (Input resources), human resource management, patient registration and management, medication, laboratory test (Progress), benefits in telemedicine system managing, difficulties in telemedicine system managing, complains in telemedicine system managing, client responses to telemedicine system (Outcome evaluation). 3 categories derived 11 theme clusters were ’input’, ’progress’, and ’outcome evaluation’.
Conclusions: This study has contributed to the understanding of operation of telemedicine by CHPs in community health posts. For more systematic and comprehensive management, further study should be conducted to reflect experience and positions of public health center physicians, collaborative hospital physician and patients.
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KEYWORD
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Telemedicine, Community health practitioners, Experiences, Content analysis
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