Abstract
Internet hospital via telecommunication technologies redefines the healthcare delivery concept and starts to revolutionize the traditional health sector. This new method has a significant advantage to deliver proper medical resources to the rural and remote area with less cost timely and improves rural healthcare capacity. However, quality and safety concerns have not been addressed by any reliable evidence. The internet hospital can go beyond diagnosis and treatment and find opportunities in training and education and diseases management in China.
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Xu, L. (2016). Internet Hospital: Challenges and Opportunities in China. In: Yin, X., Geller, J., Li, Y., Zhou, R., Wang, H., Zhang, Y. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48335-1_9
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