Technical Communication Quarterly Jun 2008

Researching Telemedicine: Capturing Complex Clinical Interactions with a Simple Interface Design

Barbara Mirel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor ; Ellen Barton Wayne State University ; Mark Ackerman

Abstract

Telemedicine has been shown to be an effective means of managing follow-up care in chronic diseases such as depression. Exactly why telemedicine calls work, however, remains largely unknown because there are no adequate research tools to describe the complex communicative interactions in these encounters. We report here an ongoing project to investigate the efficacy of telemedicine in depression care, arguing that technical communication specialists have unique contributions to make to this kind of research.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2008-06-06
DOI
10.1080/10572250802100477
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality

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