Adoption of Telemedicine in Behavioral Health

Adoption of Telemedicine in Behavioral Health

Introduction

This chapter reviews the previous studies carried out for the adoption of tele-medicine in behavioral healthcare service delivery. This chapter puts light on the literature variables, literature resources and the gaps in the previous researches that should be filled in future studies. Moreover, this chapter highlights the historical over view together with current overview and findings of the literature review regarding telemedicine in behavioral healthcare. Furthermore, this chapter summarizes and concludes the literature review.

Literature Variables

The literature review has been encompassed on problem statement, the aims and objectives of the research report. It includes the searches and variables in following four related areas: Demographics of patients with behavioral issues, technology related and health related variables.

Telecare, information technology, telehealth, medical services, telelarning, health care, telementoring, patient care, telemonitoring, patient diagnosis, telepresence, expert-based health care, teleconsultation, health-care delivery, telecommunications, medical diagnosis, telephony, patient satisfaction, chronic disease, understaffed remote sites, attitude of health personal, health care accessibility, physicians, remote consultations, electronic media, IT acceptance and adoption, community, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, electronic patient record, home monitoring, wireless telemedicine systems, hospitals, UTAUT, perceptions, health telematics, behavior and health outcomes are the terms and keywords associated with the four contemporary areas of the research report.

Literature Research

ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, LISTA, SAGE Journals, Directory of Open Access Journals, Dissertations & Theses @ University of Phoenix, EBSCOhost host, Emerald, JSTOR, Oxford Journals, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text, SAGE Journals were the sources used for the search of relevant information and the peer-reviewed journals. Different books, like, Emerald eBooks, Books 24x7, Books in Print, Books@Ovid was also used for access of information. National Center for Health Statistics, American Health Line, Demographics Now, Economist.com, Health and Wellness Resource Center, History Study Center, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, ProQuest Health and Medicine, ProQuest Historical Annual Reports, ProQuest News and Newspapers, Science Online, Today's Science, World News Digest were the sources from where different articles, government reports, newspapers and dissertation were retrieved to assemble key information.

Background

Since the period of 1960s, the telemedicine has been present and attributed to telecom advances. The first telemedicine technology was derived by the NASA while monitoring parameters in physiological perspective. An in-depth analysis of the evolution of telemedicine to the present time ranging from ancient Greece is provided by the history of telemedicine (Sambasivan Et.al, 2012). The development of this field has been striving in the relevant areas, like, assuring contains and quality cost. Providing equitable access to health and re-casting the medical care landscape. In clinical practice, the telemedicine has been present since the last thirty years.

In the era of early 70's, telemedicine for prisoners was provided by the School of Medicine in Miami when telederamtology for the skin infection treatment on space flight was recorded. Many of the telemedicine research projects were funded by the NASA in the year of 1960's and 1970's (Sanders & Et.al, 2012). To deliver health care to the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona, a pioneer telemedicine project was ...