TY - JOUR T1 - Researching telemedicine: Capturing complex clinical interactions with a simple interface design JF - Technical communication quarterly Y1 - 2008 A1 - Barbara Mirel A1 - Barton, Ellen A1 - Mark S. Ackerman KW - depression monitoring KW - patient-clinician communication KW - telemedicine AB -

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.

VL - 17 UR - Complete ER -