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- Egypt's HealthNet
Part of Egypt's Information Highway and currently provides its local users with a gateway to international communication and information networks.
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- ITU Brings Telemedicine to Uganda
Author/editor: not listed
Date: November/December, 1999
The minister of state for health of Uganda, F. Byaruhanga, inaugurated in August, leads the country's first telemedicine pilot project between the University Teaching Hospital of Mulago and Mengo Hospital in downtown Kampala.
- Senegal on the Threshold of Interactive Medicine
Author/editor: Seydou Sissouma
Date: June 7, 2000
Brief overview of telemedicine efforts in Senegal.
- SITA Gets Involved in Telemedicine
In South Africa, the Department of Education and the Medical Research Council developed the National Telemedicine Research project. The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) Technology Research, together with the Medical Research Council (MRC), is currently involved in the Nkomazi district in Mpumalanga in a Telemedicine Test Bed Pilot Project.
- Swiss Project Offers Gateway To Modern Medicine
Author/editor: Anna Nelson
Date: December 4, 2003
Thanks to a telemedicine project between Geneva’s University Hospital and a handful of Malian hospitals, a young girl with hydrocephalus is still alive.
- The Africa Telehealth Project
Dedicated to developing and implementing self-sustaining telehealth services in Africa and to increasing opportunities for North American health service professionals and technology companies to participate in this key sector.
- The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author/editor: not listed
Date: not listed
This report seeks to examine many of the initiatives in the health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa that use ICTs to enhance their work.
- On Call at the South Pole
Author/editor: none
Date: July, 2001
An article in Healthcare Informatics which describes medical care at the South Pole. The Antarctic telemedicine system is maintained by Englewood, Colo.-based Raytheon Polar Services Co. (RPSC), a division of defense industry giant Raytheon.
- First International Telemedicine Trial to China
Information about the case of Zhu Ling.
- Health Travelers
Author/editor: Prosenjit Datta and Gina S. Krishnan
Date: December 22, 2003
The market is $40 billion and counting. It is growing at 20% every year. But how does one tap the opportunity? Health care systems in the US, UK and European countries increasingly cannot handle the growing number of patients, who are traveling to countries like Thailand and Malaysia that have good doctors and excellent facilities.
- Hong Kong Telemedicine Association
Intended to serve as a forum for exchange of information concerning all aspects of telemedicine including clinical and educational applications, on-going research projects and contacts with overseas sister organizations.
- OnlineTelemedicine.com
OTRI is an organization with a mission of mentoring rural and remote area with International Telemedicine initiatives. It provides multidimensional facilities and services right from strategy planning, operational tactics to user training, primarily based on research program. Online Telemedicine Research Institute is primarily engaged in the manufacturing and implementation of Medi- tech products.
- 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.
- Telemedicine & Telesurgery
Author/editor: P. Gopakumar
Date: February 25, 2005
Medical care is concentrated in the metros in Nepal. With telehealing, far-flung areas can access the services of specialists who would otherwise be totally inaccessible to people in rural Nepal.
- Telemedicine Centre
From the Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Faculty of Medicine has a strong interest in telemedicine and conducts regular multidisciplinary teleconferencing and telediagnosis with institutions in Hong Kong, overseas and China.
- Telemedicine in Nepal: A Pilot Project
In Nepal, connectivity and training remain the biggest challenges for implementation of telemedicine centers.
- Telemedicine Society of Japan
Hosted by the Nakajima Laboratory at Tokai University. Currently, the pages are only available in Japanese. English pages appear to be in the works.
- Telemedicine Training Manual - A User Guide for Telemedicine
From TelMedPak a not for profit project envisioned to contribute to the well being of the people of Pakistan.
- TelMedPak Telemedicine
The hub of TelMedPak activities is this website which is a large collection of useful information about health, agriculture, telemedicine and information technology in Pakistan.
- The Impact of the Internet on Healthcare in Singapore
Author/editor: Joanne Tay-Yap and Suliman Al-Hawamdeh
Date: July 2001
From v 4, no 6 of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
This paper highlights the current status of interactive health communication and its impact on Singapore healthcare.
- U.S.-China Telemedicine Demonstration
This demonstration, which coincided with President Clinton's China visit, provided face-to-face consultation between doctors at Xi'an Medical University (western China) and doctors at UCSF Stanford Health Care (California, USA).
- UPLIFT International Launches First Telemedicine Link With Vietnam
Author/editor: not listed
Date: December 4, 1998
Private Sector Effort with the University of Vermont, The George Washington University Medical Center and MCI WorldCom Demonstrates Real-Time Distance Medical Education.
- A Methodology for Telehealth Evaluation in Australia
Author/editor: not listed
Date: Spring, 2000
From Australia's Better Health Outcomes Newsletter vol 6 no 3, Spring 2000.
- Centre for Online Health
A research, teaching, education and service provider at the University of Queensland.
- Evaluation of the Victorian Telepsychiatry Program - Executive Summary
Author/editor: Anne Buist, Arlene Silvas
Date: October 19, 1999
The evaluation was performed over an 8 week period in early 1998 by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia, in collaboration with Simsion, Bolwes, and Associates.
- From Telehealth to E-Health: The Unstoppable Rise of E-Health
Author/editor: John Mitchell
Date: April-July, 1999
Published by the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DOCITA) to provide information on electronic commerce initiatives. DOCITA does not assume responsibility for the content or opinions expressed by the author in this report and disclaims any liability for errors or omissions.
- Global Doctor
International medical company providing health care where patients live, work, or travel.
- Health Online: A Health Information Action Plan for Australia, Second Edition
Author/editor: National Health Information Management Advisory Council
Date: September, 2001
The first edition was published in November 1999, and provided the basis for
a national strategic approach. The 2nd edition reports on the significant
progress made in many of the areas described in the first edition and
incorporates new strategies and projects planned for the next five years.
- HealthConnect
HealthConnect is a network of electronic health records that aims to improve the flow of information across the Australian health sector.
- La Trobe University e-Healthcare Consortium
The e-healthcare Consortium is a partnership between La Trobe University, University of Queensland and University of Southern Queensland, devoted to the research, teaching and evaluation of health information technologies.
- New South Wales Telehealth
The NSW Telehealth Initiative commenced operations in 1996 with 12 pilot projects connecting 16 sites. It is now an extensive network to over 200 facilities, which supports 25 clinical services. The Telehealth Initiative has the support of clinicians and clients and is a proven enhancement to providing quality healthcare.
- Rural and Remote Health
The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice and Policy.
- School of Rural Health
From Monash University in Traralgon, Victoria.
- The Challenge to Embed Telepsychiatry
Author/editor: John Mitchell and Benjamin Mitchell
Date: December, 1994
An evaluation of the non-clinical aspects of the South Australian Mental Health Service Telemedicine Pilot Project.
- A Program Management Model for the Nova Scotia Telemedicine Network
Author/editor: T. Campbell, BSc, MBA; R.F. Martel, MD
Date: Spring 1999
From the Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, 1999;4(2):77-80. Critical factors in achieving sustainable telemedicine have been identified. The program management model, developed for the Nova Scotia Telemedicine Network, incorporated the following tools: a telemedicine self-assessment indicator, service modelling, technical design and integration, application development and validation, scheduling, ongoing network management and evaluation.
- British Columbia Institute of Technology
Training for advanced health care specialties, including telehealth.
- British Columbia's Telehealth Initiative
Part of British Columbia Health Industries Network (HINET), a web site developed to meet the information and networking needs of the British Columbia health industry.
- Canada Health Infoway
Electronic health records: the capability of computer and software systems to seamlessly communicate with each other.
- Canadian Nursing Informatics Association
The mission of the CNIA is to be the voice for Health Informatics in Canada.
- Canadian Society of Telehealth
Canadian non-profit health association devoted to telehealth.
- Canadian Society of Telehealth Podcasts
A weekly podcast of items of news to the Canadian telehealth community.
- Cefrio
A research center interested in the effects of technology on social and human interactions and on organizations.
- Centre for Bioethics' Telehealth Ethics Programme
The purpose of the Programme is to contribute to the clarification, prevention, and where possible, the management of ethical, legal, and social problems linked to the use of information and communication technologies and networks within the health care system, and to produce an ELSI guide for use on the information highway.
- Digital Telehealth
Based in Canada, Digital Telehealth provides telehealth training and consulting services.
- eHealth InfoSource Cybersanté
eHealth InfoSource cybersanté is a free electronic awareness service alerting readers to new electronic information resources available in eHealth. It is published by the Health and the Information Highway Division, Health Canada.
- Health Canada's Office of Health and the Information Highway
OHIH is responsible for coordinating information highway-related activities both within Health Canada and with external stakeholders.
- Infotelmed Communications Inc.
Canadian company offering consulting, education & training, and strategic information services.
- Kuh-ke-nah Network of Smart First Nations
A demonstration project to provide education and health services to the
Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations in NW Ontario.
- MBTelehealth
The goal of MBTelehealth is to provide quality information and knowledge at the point of care, for all Manitobans, wherever they reside. MBTelehealth utilizes the latest in information technology to achieve that goal.
- National Initiative for Telehealth
The National Initiative for Telehealth (NIFTE) Guidelines is a multi-stakeholder interdisciplinary project that is developing a framework of national guidelines for telehealth, to be used by Canadian health care professionals, telehealth provider organizations and accreditation bodies.
- Northern Ontario Remote Telecommunication Health
A telemedicine project providing specialist consultations, CME and patient education via two-way television to rural areas in Ontario, Canada.
- Telehealth Delivers Care Far and Wide
In state-of-the-art call centres across Canada, registered nurses are providing vital health information and referral services to people in crisis.
- Telehealth Interoperability Lab
Sponsored by the Alberta Research Council and located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, experts in technical and medical application issues develop and implement telehealth systems. Experts at the facility will help set the guidelines for telehealth interoperability. They also test equipment against current, emerging, and de facto standards, from the physical level to the application level, in order to support interoperability. And they are available to advise you on the installation and operation of your telehealth facility.
- 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.
- TETRA (Telehealth and Educational Technology Resources Agency)
From the Memorial University Newfoundland, Canada, a research and development facility established to facilitate the use of information technology and telecommunications to non-urban, remote and isolated areas.
- The Telehealth Industry in Canada: Industry Profile and Capability Analysis
An Industry Canada Report, October 2000.
- The Telemedicine Centre
Based at the Memorial University, Newfoundland, the Centre provides medical telecommunications services to provincial, national and international health care facilities and physicians.
- The University of Calgary Health Telematics Unit
The Faculty of Medicine at The University of Calgary is committed to
innovation and creativity in research, clinical care, and education. The
Faculty is also committed to harnessing the necessary tools, such as the
latest advancements in technology, to help us achieve these aims.
- The University of Calgary Telehealth/e-Health Research and Training Program
From the University of Calgary; dedicated to incorporating the latest advances in applied and technical research in health, health delivery, and health education.
- Amazon Telehealth Program
The Amazon Telehealth Program is a project for Distance Education and
Telemedicine Support to a Rural Medical Internship in the Amazon, which is
being developed by the EduMed Institute for Education in Medicine and
Health, a Brazilian not-for-profit foundation, in collaboration with the
Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Amazonas.
- Atenas: Telematics Applications in Healthcare - Brazil
A interdisciplinary project in telematics directed to health, including telemedicine and telehealth aspects, supported by the Board of the Federal University of Sao Paulo and the management of Hospital Sao Paulo.
- Email is Emerging as Key Component of Telemedicine Infrastructure
Author/editor: Madanmohan Rao
Date: February 8, 1999
A report from the World Telemedicine Summit in Buenos Aires, reported in Telepolis magazine.
- NASA-funded Telemedicine Research Brings Medical Care to People Living in Earth's Remote Regions, Improves Space Medicine
Telemedicine research is being conducted by Dr. Ronald Merrell, director of the Medical Informatics Technology Applications Consortium. The MITAC has been a partner with Cinterandes Foundation in Cuenca, Ecuador.
- Red Tematica Telemedicina e Informatica Medica
Telemedicine in South and Central America. (In Spanish).
- Telecommunications in Health and Healthcare for Latin America and the Caribbean
Author/editor: W.P. Coleman
Date: November 12-15, 1996
This document was the author's contribution as a member of Needs Assessment
Workgroup, part of Expert Consultation Meeting sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization. It is not an official PAHO document.
- Telemedicine in Chile
Author/editor: Beltran Mena MD et al.
Date: n/a
Geographic, telecommunication and medical context, place this developing country in a unique position for telemedical network development.
- Tele-Rheumatology in Cusco
Author/editor: not listed
Date: June 30, 2000
The Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and Telefonica del Peru held a Telemedicine Symposium on June 18, which included for the first time in the country-- remote consultations in rheumatology and dermatology between physicians from provinces and specialists in Lima.
- Case Study Series on ICT-Enabled Development: Africa
The Tsilitwa telehealth project uses a system in which a nurse can send live pictures of a patient over a wireless network to a remote doctor, and at the same time they can speak to one another using a Voice over IP (VoIP) phone.
- Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
From the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Nebraska Omaha. An international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems and technologies in developing countries
- 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 Telemedicine and Learning Network
As part of Medical Missions for Children, the Global Telemedicine and
Learning Network provides medical expertise to catastrophically ill children
in Latin America whose illness is above the care-giving capability of their
community.
- Markle Telemedicine Clinic in Cambodia
The Markle Foundation Telemedicine clinic in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia, provides a model for the way in which information and communication technologies can be harnessed to improve the quality of health and life in the developing world. It brings the specialized skills of doctors at Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals to one of the most isolated and medically-underserved areas of Cambodia and the region.
- NASA-funded Telemedicine Research Brings Medical Care to People Living in Earth's Remote Regions, Improves Space Medicine
Telemedicine research is being conducted by Dr. Ronald Merrell, director of the Medical Informatics Technology Applications Consortium. The MITAC has been a partner with Cinterandes Foundation in Cuenca, Ecuador.
- Solar-powered Computers and Wireless Internet Systems Help Doctors Communicate with Patients in Cambodia
Author/editor: Amanda Thomas
Date: December 15, 2004
The use of the Internet and WiFi to allow doctors from Partners Telemedicine in Boston to provide health care to patients in far-flung places.
- Swinfen Charitable Trust
The Swinfen Charitable Trust was set up by Lord and Lady Swinfen in 1998, with the aim of assisting poor, sick and disabled people in the developing world.
- Telemedicine Brings Care to Indigenous Peoples
The people of Cambodia now have more opportunities- previously unavailable to them- to get better quality treatment for ailments.
- Telemedicine Brings Memphis Healing to Third-World Patients
Author/editor: Scott Shepard
Date: January 17, 2003
An article from the Memphis Business Journal on a project between Memphis
and Mexico, where close-up images of diseased eyes are bounced from a mobile
unit in Ometepec to a satellite, down to California and then over the
Internet to the Department of Ophthalmology at UT-Memphis.
- Telemedicine in Developing Countries
Author/editor: none
Date: September 8, 2001
Telemedicine, a broad umbrella term for delivery of medical care at a
distance, has reached around the world, and now health professionals can
communicate faster, more widely, and more directly with clients and
colleagues, no matter where they are. Telemedicine may in fact have a more
profound impact on developing countries than on developed ones.
- Telemedicine Lifeline for Villages
Author/editor: Alfred Hermida
Date: October 6, 2002
An article in the online BBC News describes the Bangladesh Telemedicine Services, a private company aiming to develop telemedicine centers in that country.
- The EHAS Program: Telemedicine for Isolated Areas in Developing Countries
The EHAS program (which stands for "Enlace Hispano-Americano de Salud") gives health service providers access to a series of low cost communication tools and telemedicine services, both adapted to rural areas.
- Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
For over four decades VITA has empowered the poor in developing countries by
providing access to information and knowledge, strengthening local
institutions and introducing improved technologies.
- Good Practice Models
In this section, several texts and instruction are compiled which deal with easy-to-read and easy-to-apply steps to take immediate measures in such situations such as the South East Asian Tsunami.
- Promoting teleworking in CIS countries
Telework has proved to be very effective within a region. Perhaps the best example is telemedicine. The condition of a patient can be transmitted to a medical centre, where a diagnosis can be made. There are already two telemedicine centres, one in Ukraine and the other in Uzbekistan. Our purpose is not only to activate teleworking with Russia and EU countries, but to bring it to other parts of the CIS.
- Telemedicine & eMedicine World: Romania
Romanian initiative in Telemedicine and related applications.
- Telemedicine in the Ukraine
Information on the practice of telemedicine in the Ukraine.
- Trends in Healthcare Telematics
Author/editor:
Date:
Healthcare telematics activities in Romania. National site in European Health Telematics Observatory network
- Ukrainian Association of Computer Medicine
UACM was set up in August 1992 and became a national member of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). It unites 78 scientific research institutes, universities, scientific societies, enterprises and hospitals.
- European Health Telematics Observatory
Observatory helps users and providers working or interested in telematics applied to health care to find and disseminate information.
- NetDoctor
A staff of doctors, nurses and editors prepares high quality medical
information in easy to understand terms. A network of 600 of Europe's most
respected doctors and professors, who write articles, answer questions from
users and offer editorial guidance, assists them. Specialized password
protected "Pro" sites help doctors keep up-to-date with professional online
medical resources and relevant medical topics. A range of NetDoktor
communities address the needs of users with specific health conditions and
interests.
- Telederm.org
Telederm.org is a unique medical application whereby dermatologists, general practitioners or any healthcare workers interested in teledermatology can discuss interesting and unusual cases in clinical dermatology, dermatopathology and dermoscopy.
- Telemedicine and Telecare International Trade Fair
The Telemedicine & Telecare International Trade Fair is bringing suppliers of telemedicine equipment and services, as well as providers in the field of e-health, together with buyers, healthcare professionals, institutional decision makers and policy makers. A report of the 2002 Fair is on the web site, and plans are underway for the 2004 event.
- Telemedicine in Greenland
by Dr. Karl O. Karlsen, a report from the ITU's Rural Application Focus Group.
- Teleplans
TELEPLANS Forum consists of the various national actors in telemedicine from the EU member states as well as from Australia and Canada. In the project, national pilot implementations will be analysed and an European model for the provision of telemedicine services will be defined.
- Telepsychiatry Pilot-Project in Denmark
Behandlingscenter Den Lille Prins in Copenhagen, is a psychiatric clinic that is conducting a pilot project to provide telepsychiatric service in patients' own language where the access to appropriate psychiatric care is limited. This pilot project has so far demonstrated high acceptance and usefulness of videoconferencing in order to increase accessibility to mental health services on own language for refugee/immigrants population in Denmark.
- The Danish Society for Clinical Telemedicine
The aim of the Society is, based on science, to promote knowledge and understanding for the use of telemedicine and telemedical tools in clinical settings.
A further aim is after- and continuing education and training of doctors and healthcare personnel in the use of telemedical tools as simulators, robot surgery and video-conferencing during surgery and tele-learning.
- Trends in Health Telematics in the European Union
Author/editor: David Preston, Editor
Date: June, 1996
Prepared by the members of the European Community Telematics Programme Committee Working Party, this paper represents a summary based on contributions from all EU member states, plus Norway. The narrative section attempts to draw together the common strands of policy developments in the information systems area, whilst also indicating something of the differences which exist in the organisation of health care throughout Europe.
- Binder's Bookmarks on Telemedicine and Telematics in Medicine
From Germany, a non-commercial exchange of information in telemedicine, telematics in medicine and medical informatics.
- Teleradiology System MEDICUS
Author/editor: U. Engelmann (a), et al.
Date: June 26-29, 1996
Reprint from: Lemke (Ed). CAR `96: Computer Assisted Radiology, 10th International Symposium and Exhibition, Paris, 26-29 June 1996. Paris. MEDICUS is a teleradiology system which has been developed at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, Germany. The global software architecture is explained in the article.
- Boundaries Hamper Telemedicine
Author/editor: Allison Connolly
Date: December 15, 2000
From the Boston Business Journal, most of the telemedicine business is being done overseas, because there are no national guidelines in the United States to safeguard patients' rights and protect doctors against liability across state lines. And, in most cases, insurance companies don't cover the costs.
- International Society for Telemedicine
An international society based on individual membership.
- PICNIC Professionals and Citizens Network for Integrated Care
PICNIC is initiated by European regional health care providers, who are planning to develop the next generation regional health care networks to support their new ways of providing health and social care.
- Worldcare
Consortium of internationally-renowned medical centers.
- Long Distance Healing
Author/editor: Dinesh Sharma
Date: July, 2000
The Apollo Group launches India's first telemedicine project in the
commercial arena on April 13, 2000 at Aragonda village (Andhra Pradesh,
South India) using satellite and computer links.
- Pathoindia
Patho-India Egroup - the virtual pathology community of India was founded with an aim to bring all the pathologists in India online, on one common interactive platform.
- Spsood.com
An overview of telemedicine in India.
- Telemedicine in India
From The Golden Triangle Organization, an overview of this telemedicine technology and its applications in the developing markets of Asia. $$
- Telemedicine in Trauma Care
Author/editor: not listed
Date: November, 2000
From India's Healthcare Management, issue 16, advances in technology have made it possible for telemedicine to be used in multiple areas of medicine, including trauma care. Teleradiology and teleconsultation are becoming standard operating procedure for many rural facilities.
- AMR Hypernet
AMR is an Information Technology
Infrastructure, in Internet environment, fully integrated to manage every single part of the Clinical Trial’s process but making use of "independent" and "customisable" components to meet the user’s requirements.
- 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.
- TeleSCAN
First European Internet service for Cancer research, treatment and education providing a World Wide Web interface to primarily European information resources and services related to Cancer.
- A Model for the Assessment of Telemedicine and a Plan for Testing of the Model within Five Specialties
Author/editor: Arto Ohinmaa, Jarmo Reponen and Working Group
Date: 1997
Report from the Finnish Office for Health Care Technology Assessment. The preliminary survey for the telemedicine assessment project was carried out in 1996 jointly by the Health Care Districts of Northern Finland and Southwestern Finland, and FinOHTA. The project engaged both a telemedicine expert and a health economics expert. The survey outlined the application of the assessment process to a new field and to a concrete environment. The survey aimed at producing models and guidelines for the elaboration of assessment criteria and for the planning of research and development within telemedicine.
- Danish Society for Medical Informatics
The Danish Society for Medical Informatics - Dansk Selskab for Medicinsk Informatik (DSMI) was established in 1966.
- Finnish Society of Telemedicine
Intended to promote the health of the population through telecommunication and to disperse the expert knowledge within health care.
- Nordic Telemedicine Association
In March 1999, a group consisting of two members from each of the Nordic
countries, Greenland and the Faroe Islands gathered to form the Nordic
Telemedicine Association. The main aim of the organization is to strengthen
and expand telemedicine activity in and between member countries and to
promote collaboration with the outside world.
- Nordunet2
A research programme financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers and by the Nordic Governments. The overriding aim of this programme is to help secure the position of Nordic countries at the forefront of Internet development.
- Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine at the University Hospital Tromso
In 1993, the department was appointed by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to be the national central institution for telemedicine.
- Telemedicine
Author/editor: Birger Nymo
Date: July 9, 1999
This document defines the concept of telemedicine and provides a short history of the progress of telemedicine, particularly in Europe and Norway.
- Telemedicine Applications in Finland 1996
Author/editor: M. Kvist
Date: 1996
The state of telemedicine applications was evaluated by means of telephone interviews directed at the chief physicians of all the hospital districts in Finland and at other key persons recommended by them. The data were supplemented by interviews directed at the private sector. All in all, 44 interviews were made between November 1995 and January 1996.
- An Ethnographic Study of the Diffusion Process of Telemedicine in Scotland
The study is part of the Economic and Social Research Council research program.
- BMA Report on Healthcare In A Rural Setting
Author/editor: BMA
Date: January 2005
The British Medical Association (BMA) resolved at its 2003 meeting to further investigate the difficulties in recruiting and retaining doctors in rural practice. In particular, the BMA is concerned about the sustainability of services in rural areas and the resulting problems with access to healthcare. The Board of Science decided to build on the earlier GPC/IRH report and widen the discussion on rural healthcare in the UK.
- Centre for eHealth and Learning
The HIMTE (Health Information Management and Technology and Estates) Division of the National Assembly for Wales is developing a Telemedicine and Telecare progamme to support the delivery of care to patients in NHS Wales.
- e-Health Nurses Network
This network, first established by a small group of UK nurses in 2000, is an independent initiative, freely open to all nurses and health and social care colleagues with an interest in developing e-health in order to maximize the professional delivery of effective patient care.
- Health Travelers
Author/editor: Prosenjit Datta and Gina S. Krishnan
Date: December 22, 2003
The market is $40 billion and counting. It is growing at 20% every year. But how does one tap the opportunity? Health care systems in the US, UK and European countries increasingly cannot handle the growing number of patients, who are traveling to countries like Thailand and Malaysia that have good doctors and excellent facilities.
- Healthy High-tech Future for NHS
Author/editor: not listed
Date: July 2, 1998
From BBC News, in a keynote speech marking the 50th anniversary of the National Health Service, Tony Blair is telling staff to embrace the information superhighway and telemedicine.
- Heartbeats Down the Phone
Author/editor: not listed
Date: June 29, 1998
From BBC News, Health column, Europe's first heart telemedicine monitoring centre has opened in Wales.
- Medical Robots Start Work at London Hospital
Author/editor: n/a
Date: May 18, 2005
Science-fiction moved a step closer to reality on Wednesday when robots nicknamed "Sister Mary" and "Doctor Robbie" started work at a London hospital. The pair allow doctors to visually examine and communicate with patients, whether they are in another part of the hospital or even another part of the world.
- Multimed
Professional medical education through satellite communications, based in the UK.
- Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator (ONCHIT)
In an Executive Order issued on April 27, 2004, President George W. Bush called for widespread deployment of health information technology within 10 years. As part of this announcement, he formed ONCHIT.
- Public Value and e-Health
Author/editor: Jamie Bend
Date: 2004
A report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), a progressive think-tank in London, England, on the use of information communications technology (ICT) in healthcare in the UK. Adobe PDF
- Swinfen Charitable Trust
The Swinfen Charitable Trust was set up by Lord and Lady Swinfen in 1998, with the aim of assisting poor, sick and disabled people in the developing world.
- Telemed
Telemed is a registered charity which promotes and funds telemedicine links
in and between hospitals in the UK.
- Telemedicine & eHealth Forum
From the Royal Society of Medicine.
- Telemedicine and the 'Future Patient?' Risk, Governance, and Innovation
Author/editor: Carl May, Maggie Mort, Frances Mair & Tracy Finch
Date: 2005
A summary of a final report funded by the Economic & Social Research Council in the UK, Project ref : L21825 2067. The group found that 'telemedicine' as it has been conventionally understood
by its clinical and policy champions is disappearing. Electronically mediated doctor-patient interactions, are being rapidly displaced by applications that involve a wider range of staff (mainly
nurses) utilising systems explicitly intended to manage the routine trajectories of chronic diseases.
- Telemedicine for Doctor-Patient Interaction is Vanishing in the NHS
Author/editor: n/a
Date: March 22, 2005
A new report from the ESRC says telemedicine is vanishing in the NHS.
- Telemedicine Information Service
The Telemedicine Information Service, of which NDTM (National Database of Telemedicine) is part, is run by the British Library and the University of Portsmouth. They also operate an email discussion list, a telephone information service and publish a quarterly bibliography of references about telemedicine.
- Telepsychiatry Blog
A blog from the South London and Maudsley(SLaM)Trust provides information on SLaM programs, provides links to other telepsychiatry programmes, and provides opportunities for posting comments.
- The Scottish Telemedicine Initiative
Funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department to promote the implementation of telemedicine in Scotland. Guiding its work is a clinical forum - the Scottish Telemedicine Action Forum.
- UK e-Health Association
UK eHealth Association (Formerly the UK Telemedicine Association) has been formed to represent all those corporations and individuals interested in the development of eHealth in the United Kingdom.
- University College of London Telemedicine Users Group
The UCL Telemedicine Users Group is a loose partnership of people and organisations that are members of or associated with University College London and currently active in the field of Telemedicine.
- Video link brings 'virtual' docs to kids' bedsides
SCOTS children's hospitals linked by a hi-tech video network which will allow specialists to be at children's bedsides "virtually".
- Your Patient Wait May Be At An End: Telemedicine Says the e-Doctor is In
Author/editor: Sandra Dick
Date: September 2004
Telemedicine - where patients with chronic illnesses are treated at home instead of having to go to the doctor’s surgery or outpatients’ clinic - is just one area of e-health. From the Scotsman.com
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