Ethical View of Telemedicine Practices

Year 2021, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1 - 2, 30.04.2021

Mehtap Pekesen , Elif Kocakaplan , Mehtap Kacar , Elif Vatanoglu

Abstract

Telemedicine—the utilization of clinical data and innovation to progress distanced clinical care can change the patient-centered approach. Telemedicine can coordinate distance monitoring and diagnostic instruments with computerized cooperation and suggestions to better interact with patients when they are not in a hospital. Despite these preferences, there is still some doubt as to how telemedicine applications may affect care. Guaranteeing that telemedicine is ethically admissible requires projection and consideration of four potential issues: the disruption of the patient-physician relationship, jeopardizing patient privacy, impelling one-size-fits-all applications, and the impulse to expect that innovation should be efficient

Keywords

Telemedicine, Ethical View, Telemedicine Practices

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