Report on a questionnaire concerning telemedicine practitioner training

Abstract

　In these times of community-based integrated care systems, the spread of telemedicine is desirable. As requested by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Japan Telemedicine Society has adopted and conducted "Telemedicine worker training." The purpose of this study is to report the results of a questionnaire taken by the participants of this training. There were 70 participants in total. The number of questionnaires returned was 47 (67.1%). The respondents were medical staff (36.2%), individuals directly related to a company (25.5%), hospital staff (17.0%), and concerned administrative persons (10.6%). As the respondents differed in terms of their knowledge of telemedicine, the results showed varying degrees of satisfaction with the training.