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Ten delegates at the conference Voluntarism, Health and Social Care were recruited to form a panel of citizens to debate and offer direction for the future of technologically mediated health care. The panel suggested various principles for the development of telemedicine and telecare, concerning: patients, users and carers, approach to service delivery, research and knowledge, and conditions of use. Many of the principles echoed the founding values of the National Health Service, yet have arguably been absent from both policy pronouncements and the telemedicine literature, which largely views new health technologies themselves as 'value free', i.e. developed untouched by social and political relations. A programme of citizens' panels should be developed so that an informed debate can take place about the development of telemedicine and telecare, to underpin policy and practice.
Author(s): Mort M, Finch T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
Year: 2005
Volume: 11
Issue: s1
Pages: 66-68
Print publication date: 01/01/2005
ISSN (print): 1357-633X
ISSN (electronic): 1758-1109
Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/1357633054461877
DOI: 10.1258/1357633054461877
PubMed id: 16036000
Notes: Telemedicine and eHealth Forum. London, UK. 29-30 November 2004.
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