“…In the future, the use of computers and telecommunications services to transmit clinical information will increase markedly as nurses use computers to transmit data long-distance in their clinical practices (Loepprich & Smith, 1983-1984. Computers will be used increasingly to transmit data from remote monitoring systems in patients' homes, to transmit data for consultation purposes and to transmit patients' medical records (Charbonneau, 1982;Higgins, Conrath, & Dunn, 1984).…”