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Home Telehealth Web Articles

• About Home Telehealth
  An introduction to the use of telehealth in home care settings.
• Assistive Technology Improves Lives of Individuals With Disabilities
  Author/editor: Kathleen Vickery
  Date: May 2005
  A new wave of assistive devices is giving more individuals access to computers and reentry into everyday life. Includes a sidebar on telehealth and assistive devices. Adobe PDF
• Community of Care Archives
  Quarterly home telehealth newsletter archives from the Information for Tomorrow website. Topics include: telehospice, tele-palliative care, home telehealth and Medicaid, home telehealth for obesiety, telecare in the UK, and more.
• Geared Up For Health
  Author/editor: Elizabeth Weil
  Date: February 10, 2004
  TIME magazine article discusses ways in which "new technology may enable us to live longer and happier lives at home — and even cure our ailing health-care system."
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• Home Care And Telemedicine. Did You Say Opportunity?
  Author/editor: Karen Rau
  Date: September 11, 2000
  From HealthCare Vision's professional resources, the effects of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 on home care .
• Home Telehealth Systems: A Primer
  Author/editor: Home Care Management Associates, Ltd.
  Date: May, 1998
  A paper from Resources for Providers Home Care Management Associates, Ltd. Includes a glossary.
• Keeping Patients Connected: Technology Helps VA Reduce Hospital Visits
  Author/editor: Alice Dembner
  Date: September 23, 2003
  The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching the largest telemedicine initiative in the country, planning to bring computer and telephone-based medicine to the homes of 25,000 chronically ill patients nationwide by the end of 2004.
• Remote Control: The Growth of Home Monitoring
  Author/editor: Tyler Chin
  Date: November 18, 2002
  An article from the online Amednews.com. Insurers increasingly are using home systems to track their members' health. But with this emphasis on cost control, some fear the physician is being bypassed.
• Remote Patient Monitoring Inching Its Way Into DM
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: October 10, 2002
  An interview with Vince Kuraitis at Better Health Technologies in Boise, Idaho. Despite barriers, there are many benefits for remote monitoring in disease management. Adobe PDF
• Repurposing Broadband: Home Health Technologies for the Worldwide Age Wave
  Author/editor: Eric Dishman
  Date: July 15, 2003
  While Intel was studying broadband early adopters and their uses of digital entertainment, they found many participants who wanted Intel to address a different and more troubling problem: the pressures of dealing with health problems of their spouses and parents kept bubbling to the surface. Eric Dishman reports on Intel's progress in understanding what needs home health innovations should address and their experience in prototyping 'smart home' systems to help address them. In early 2004, these systems will move from the lab and into the lives of real elders and their caregivers.
• Technology Enhances DM Tools
  Author/editor: Mike Frost
  Date: January 2002
  Disease management (DM) is emerging as a popular tool for employers to cut health care costs and boost the quality of care enjoyed by employees and their dependents.
• Telehealth: An Opportunity for Assisted Living Environments
  Author/editor: Karen Rau
  Date: October 16, 2000
  From HealthCare Vision's professional resources, how telemedicine can be used in assisted living environments.
• Telehealth: Imperative for a Strategic Disease Management Initiative
  Author/editor: Ellen Bolch and Charles Laff
  Date: Nov/Dec 2004
  Remote Care Technology represents a breakthrough for health care but particularly for the home care industry. Early adopters of telemonitoring who have been “in the sandbox” for the last few years playing with the application of remote care technology to homecare represent Gladwell’s “Law of the Few” who have brought us to this breakthrough tipping point. From The Remington Report. Adobe PDF
• Telehomecare and Remote Monitoring: An Outcomes Overview
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: 11/01/2007
  A report by the Advanced Medical Technology Association which is based on a review of published studies on telehomecare and remote monitoring. It focused primarily on how these technologies have impacted the care of patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Adobe PDF
• Telemedicine Reaches Individuals
  Author/editor: R. Colin Johnson
  Date: July 28, 2000
  From EE Times. Teleconferencing systems, once available only in big hospitals, are now reaching down to individual practitioners' offices. Meanwhile, the fastest-growing segment of the business is end-user devices for home care.
• Telemedicine: Web Cams, Camera Phones Let Patients Visits Doctors Without Leaving Home
  Author/editor: Sheryl Ubelacker
  Date: April 21, 2005
  A variety of home telehealth applications are helping patients avoid office visits in Canada.
• The Potential Impact of Home Telecare on Clinical Practice
  Author/editor: Branko G Celler, Nigel H Lovell and Daniel K Y Chan
  Date: 1999
  From the Medical Journal of Australia, reviews how the widespread implementation of home telecare would require fundamental changes in the healthcare system.
• Unobtrusive Monitoring of Health Status in an Aging Population
  Author/editor: Hayes, TL et al
  Date: 2003
  From UbiHealth 2003: The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications. Caring for the dependent elderly has become one of the top health care issues of this country. The goal of the Point-of-Care Engineering Laboratory at OHSU is to develop approaches and technologies that allow early detection of reduced physical and cognitive function that could lead to decreased independence. Adobe PDF
• What Home Care Agencies Should Know About Telehealth
  Author/editor: Charissa Ashman
  Date: Nov/Dec 2004
  The latest key concepts from the 2004 American Telemedicine Association Forum on Remote Monitoring and Telehealth that relate to the use of telehealth in home care. Adobe PDF
• Wound Care via Telemedicine: The Wave of the Future
  Author/editor: Valerie J. Ablaza, MD, and Jack Fisher, MD
  Date: May, 1999
  From Rubicon Inc. The authors propose a wound management system using telemedicine for evaluating remote patients. Home care via telemedicine shows promise for improving the quality of wound care, enhancing its availability, reducing costs, and generating valuable outcomes data.

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