IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cai/jiedbu/jie_pr1_0098.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Effect of Telemedicine on Patients’ Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

Author

Listed:
  • Octavio R. Escobar
  • Daniele Leone
  • Pasqualina Malafronte
  • Stefania Mele

Abstract

This study aims to systematically review the effectiveness of telehealth platforms on patients? wellbeing and health services. Telemedicine has become an increasingly popular option for long distance/virtual medical care and education. We performed an analysis of 64 documents published during 2000-2020 with the aim of systematically analyzing the effect of telemedicine on patients? wellbeing. The procedure used is a bibliometric method to evaluate the productivity of scientific outputs quantitatively. The results demonstrate that telemedicine has evolved through different research steps that began with telemedicine as just a communication medium to complement traditional services, to a technology of automation and decision tools that expands the scope and range of health services. This study thus contributes to a greater and more detailed understanding of the current research trends in this new and stimulating field of research. The study also helps decision makers to develop a better understanding of the current landscape, demonstrating the utility of telemedicine in various patient populations and the impact of these technologies on patient satisfaction. JEL Codes: M15, O32, O33

Suggested Citation

  • Octavio R. Escobar & Daniele Leone & Pasqualina Malafronte & Stefania Mele, 2021. "The Effect of Telemedicine on Patients’ Wellbeing: A Systematic Review," Journal of Innovation Economics, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(2), pages 9-31.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:jiedbu:jie_pr1_0098
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=JIE_PR1_0098
    Download Restriction: free
    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics-2021-2-page-9.htm
    Download Restriction: free
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Telemedicine; Wellbeing; Healthcare; Patient; Bibliometric Analysis;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M15 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - IT Management
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cai:jiedbu:jie_pr1_0098. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.