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Record W4414072616 · doi:10.5772/intechopen.1012383

The Evolution of Telemedicine across Time

2025· book-chapter· en· W4414072616 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Charles R. Doarn

Bibliographic record

VenueBiomedical engineering · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTelemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTelemedicineHealth careModalitiesPopulationLast mile (transportation)Quarter (Canadian coin)Healthcare system

Abstract

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The concept of telemedicine is neither new nor novel. It has been a part of healthcare for more than a century, if not longer. The integration of telecommunications into the practice of medicine implies that no one should be without access to healthcare. Communications, as we understand it today, are based on telephony or the internet—both wired and wireless. Yet there were various communication modalities dating into antiquity that were used for medicine. In the modern era, telemedicine has been applied in a plethora of settings, including human spaceflight, military applications, disasters, humanitarian crisis, home health care, and, of course, the rapid increase in utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, healthcare has evolved, and with continuous improvements in telecommunications and computer technology, telemedicine has become a necessary tool in the practice of medicine worldwide; whereby literally every clinical discipline has been impacted. As the first quarter of the twenty-first century comes to a close, the world’s population has access to more information and healthcare resources than in all of human history. This chapter provides an overview of the advancement of telemedicine across time and its impact on current practice.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.686
Threshold uncertainty score0.791

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.280 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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