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ECRM:
The European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management
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Volume 2 Issue 1 July 2003
Telehealth in the UK: A critical perspective
Ela Klecun-Dabrowska, Department of Information Systems, London School of
Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
e.klecun@lse.ac.uk |
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This paper
reports on the multi-layered research into telehealth in the UK conducted
through a critical theory perspective. Telehealth is an umbrella term for health
services delivered at a distance and, more specifically, over various
telecommunication networks. The paper aims to offer an alternative perspective
on telehealth, focusing on rationalities, knowledge claims and ways of
legitimising telehealth. The paper concludes that there are competing and
difficult to reconcile rationalities influencing telehealth, conflicting
knowledge claims and no commonly agreed ways of legitimising telehealth.
Keywords: Telehealth,
Information systems, Critical theory
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