Introduction to the Minitrack: Telemedicine

Telemedicine is a technological innovation that has increasingly interested IS researchers and practitioners. An emerging area largely driven by technologies and their clinical applications, telemedicine is still searching for coherent and directing frameworks to advance management practices and research. Findings and discussions offered by the papers accepted by this year’s minitrack are interesting and warrant continued research. A total of seven papers have been accepted, providing different but complementary perspectives to telemedicine research and management. The first paper by LeRouge et al. examines important quality attributes in telemedicine video conferencing systems. The second paper by Naegele-Jackson investigates the effects of compression and network