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Healthcare managers and policy makers will, in the immediate and near future, make major decisions about the allocation of scarce healthcare resources for telehealth ‘solutions’. In our haste to capitalize on what technology can do we may be obscuring discussion and research about what technology should do. For example, currently much attention is being paid to standardization for technological aspects of telehealth. In contrast few efforts have been made to seek standardization in regards to a broad evaluation framework for telehealth. A body of opinion believes that missing in our rush into the on-line world is a systematic approach to research into the human, social, cultural, economic, and political factors associated with healthcare. As a result we lack the tools and experience necessary to assess the true value and implications of telehealth ‘solutions’. Developing general guidelines for an evaluation framework, from needs assessment through integrated research to post-study assessment, would greatly enhance the quality of decision making by healthcare managers and policy makers. We propose a model - the Telehealth Integrated Research Model (TIRM) - as the first step in encouraging discussion and development of an internationally accepted standardized telehealth evaluation framework.
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