- Title
- Video consultations and virtual nutrition care for weight management
- Creator
- Rollo, Megan E.; Hutchesson, Melinda J.; Burrows, Tracy L.; Krukowski, Rebecca A.; Harvey, Jean R.; Hoggle, Lindsey B.; Collins, Clare E.
- Relation
- Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Vol. 115, Issue 8, p. 1213-1220
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2015.03.016
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- The impact of technology on health care is escalating as a result of a diffusion of mobile devices and increased ubiquity of the online environment. In 2013, 74.4% American households had access to the Internet compared with 18.0% in 1997, while 63.6% had access to a handheld computer such as a smartphone.Improved accessibility and usability of video conferencing platforms has seen this technology increasingly being used for the delivery of telehealth services for remote health care. Through the combination of real-time audio and visual streams, video calls maintain a face-to-face element in remote health care delivery and may offer advantages to practitioners, such as attending to both verbal and nonverbal cues, compared with other technologies where communication is delayed (eg, e-mail) or is dependent on one information stream (eg, telephone or online chat).
- Subject
- weight management; nutrition; health care; technology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339757
- Identifier
- uon:28331
- Identifier
- ISSN:2212-2672
- Language
- eng
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