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own disease process and note the ease with which patients are able to manage self-
care and so enjoy an improved quality of life (Sanderson, 2007). By patients’ achiev-
ing a good understanding of and performing self-care by the end of their home
health admission periods, an important goal of home telehealth has been attained.
However, when one moves beyond issues of technical ease of use and looks
more closely at patients’ preferences for privacy or at their desires to use the tele-
health devices according to their own schedules, one moves head-on toward the
growing trend of consumer-directed health care. This is the new ...