Telehealth was introduced as a promising service to support integrated care in management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Implementation of telehealth is geared towards improving self-management and providing remote support for continuous disease management. However, it is currently not clear where telehealth services fit into existing pathways for COPD disease management. This exploratory study aims to identify the practices of clinical stakeholders along a Greek clinical care pathway for COPD, detail the challenges of those practices, and to identify where telehealth solutions may be implemented to reduce clinical resource utilization.
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