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- Fund hopes to enhance health care on islands
The goal of the Madison project is to connect the 24 primary health centers and community health centers on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands through a “telemedicine” system.
- Global Telehealth Resource Center
The East Carolina University Telemedicine Center has developed the Global Tele-health Resource Center (GTRC), for "healthcare delivered anywhere, particularly for disaster relief."
- Pilot Study on the Use of Telecommunications In Disaster and Emergency Situations in Sri Lanka
Author/editor: not listed
Date: September 1998
The pilot project is conducted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka, in association with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications, and ICO Global Communications. The pilot project surveys: 1) the nature of disasters in Sri Lanka, 2) the problems and constraints faced by emergency telecommunications, 3) the existing disaster communication system in Sri Lanka, including the chain of command in emergency management and the relevant regulations and 4) the present emergency telecommunication infrastructure, including the equipment and personnel available.
- Space System-Based Telemedicine, Disaster Management
Space system-based telemedicine could provide improved and cost-effective access to quality health care and transform the delivery of health care.
- Telemedicine Applied to Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response: History and Future
Author/editor: Victoria Garshnek and Frederick M. Burkle, Jr.
Date: March, 1999
Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
This paper reviews the history of telemedicine activities during actual disasters and related situations, provides insight into issues that must be addressed, and summarizes innovations that are likely to improve future disaster outcomes. Adobe PDF
- Diabetes Project Testing Feasibility of Telemedicine
Author/editor: Tyler Chin
Date: April 10, 2000
From 2000 AMNews, a $28 million venture hopes to settle whether technology can make chronic care better and cheaper and whether HCFA should reimburse remote care.
- Evaluation of Accessibility and Use of New Communication Technologies in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Author/editor: Gabriel Gimenez-Perez
Date: December 2002
From the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). The object of the study was to evaluate the accessibility and use of new communication technologies in a population of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Packard Brings Telemedicine to Children With Asthma
Author/editor: Krista Conger
Date: October 16, 2002
From the Stanford Report, two-way video monitors that will be used to link physicians to elementary students with asthma.
- Special Report: Technology Gains Transform DM
Author/editor: Not listed
Date: September 25, 1999
This Special Report is published as a supplement to the September 25, 1999 issue of Disease Management News by Business Information Services, Inc. Technology is dramatically changing the way disease management (DM) services are being delivered to the chronically ill, but the DM industry will have to find ways of coping with a host of legal, regulatory, and reimbursement issues before it can take full advantage of the gains.
- Home Care and Hospice State Associations
A directory of all National Association of Home Care (NAHC) associations and hospices.
- Home Telehospice
A wide variety of information on technology and hospice care from the Information for Tomorrow Web site.
- Hospice of Michigan TeleHospice
Hospice of Michigan's Telehospice services use interactive video technology to connect hospice patients with Hospice of Michigan medical staff by way of regular telephone lines, a mini-video camera and television monitor.
- Missouri Telehospice Project
The Missouri Telehospice Project aims to investigate with a control-experimental design the impact of a telehospice model on satisfaction with delivered care, caregiver burden, crisis prevention rates and overall cost of delivered care. Five hospice agencies in West Plains, St. Louis, Springfield, Moberly and Columbia, Missouri are participating in this project.
- Telehospice Pioneers Interactive Technology
Author/editor: not listed
Date: May 18, 2001
From MSU News, connecting face-to-face in real time will be possible 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week for Hospice of Michigan patients and their clinical team as part of a study being conducted by MSU researchers and Hospice of Michigan.
- Telehospice: Using Telecommunication Technology for Terminally Ill Patients
Author/editor: Pamela Whitten, Gary Doolittle, and Seth Hellmich, MA
Date: July, 2001
From the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol 6 no 4, this paper presents preliminary results from the first of a two-year project, a bi-state telehospice project in Michigan and Kansas, designed to provide end-of-life services to hospice patients and their caregivers.
- ATA Telerehabilitation Special Interest Group
The Telerehabilitation Special Interest Group's mission is to provide a forum for information exchange and dissemination for practitioners and interested parties involved in Telerehabilitation.
- Missouri TeleRehabilitation Training Program
This project is funded by a Field Initiated Demonstration Grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education.
- RESNA Telerehabilitation Special Interest Group
SIG-21 is a diverse group of approximately 50 Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)members with varied backgrounds and jobs who share a common interest in telerehabilitation.
- Universal Interfacing System for Interactive Technologies in Telemedicine, Disabilities, Rehabilitation, and Education
Author/editor: Edward Lipson, David Warner, and Yuh-Jye Chang
Date: 1999
A manuscript from Pulsar.org describes a modular hardware and software system for human-computer interaction that allows for flexible, affordable interfacing of people, computers, and instruments. The approach is illustrated with an application in the disabilities area. Other application areas are outlined.
- Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute Telerehabilitation Program
Since 1995, Shepherd Center in Atlanta, GA has been researching and developing effective and efficient ways to use telecommunications technology to deliver services to patients.
- Cruise Line Offers Telemedicine Link
Author/editor: Bob Brewin
Date: March 24, 2000
Passengers and crew aboard Princess Cruises' Ocean Princess can now call on the services of 110 medical specialists at the Cleveland Clinic in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., should they develop a medical condition which the onboard medical director and staff can't handle, thanks to a pioneering telemedicine program that links the ship to the clinic via a 64kbps satellite connection.
- Global Medical Systems
Offers comprehensive medical support for remote operations. Serves vessels
at sea, aircraft, research stations, remote commercial operations,
transportation and construction sites.
- Health Message From the Skies
Author/editor: Daniel Boettcher
Date: February 25, 2001
From the BBC News Health Column, doctors on the ground will soon be able to diagnose sick airline passengers thousands of miles away and advise cabin crews on how to treat them.
- MedAire
MedAire has established the infrastructure, processes and experience for managing health and security risks all over the world, by air, land or sea.
- Remote Retirement
Author/editor: Daniel Fisher
Date: June 8, 2005
A description of Dr. Dan Carlin's WorldClinic, with nine physicians who dispense advice to travelers worldwide via a wide range of devices, from landline telephones to satellite data links.
- Second Opinion International
An international telemedicine network, Second Opinion provides a gateway to remote care and an extensive range of health care services to a growing number of subscribers.
- TeleMedic Systems
Remote medical diagnostics for air, sea, or land.
- Telemedicine Brings Care on Board Fast
Author/editor: Nigel Kitchen
Date: Spring, 2002
From FerryWorld, Nigel Kitchen reviews new technology that should make it much easier for emergency care to be given on ferries.
- WorldClinic
Medical services group delivering 24 hour immediate access to U.S. board-certified physicians for medical consultation, diagnosis and referral.
- Pregnancy Healthcare Online
Author/editor: Riz Lateef
Date: December 19, 2000
From the BBC News Health column, EMUM or Educating Mothers to Understand Maternity, a partnership between Oxford University and the Great Yarmouth Young Women's Project, provides a foetal heart rate monitoring system, which can feed live foetal heart rate and activity data down a telephone line to the hospital.
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