Telemedicine and Telehealth Links

Settings

• Corrections
• Home health
• Indian Health/First Nations
• Military
• Rural health
• School-based
• Other settings

Corrections

• 1999 Research Report Evaluating a Prison Telemedicine Network
  Prepared by: Abt Associates, Inc. for the: Joint Program Steering Group Office of Science and Technology National Institute of Justice.
• A Web-Based Correctional Telemedicine System with Distributed Expertise
  Author/editor: Sankaran, S.
  Date: January 2000
  This abstract discusses the work flows involved in correctional health care environments and develops an object-oriented architecture for a Web-centric telemedicine system. Adobe PDF
• Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) Telemedicine Program
  ADC's correctional telemedicine is a partnership with the Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP). The ATP was formally established in 1996 through the support of the Arizona State Legislature, the Arizona Department of Health services, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
• Beyond Telemedicine: Ohio Expands Its Use of Videoconferencing Technologies
  Author/editor: Reginald A. Wilkinson and Michelle Gailiun
  Date: April 1998
  From Corrections Today, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) telemedicine pilot project was launched in 1994, effectively linking the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) with the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF), Ohio's maximum security prison. The purpose of the program was to replace the transportation of some dangerous offenders via state highways with the transportation of medical information on those offenders via telecommunications links.
• Correctional Health Care In the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Author/editor: Ben G. Raimer
  Date: May, 2001
  The State of Texas implemented a novel approach to correctional medicine in 1994, which included the creation of a managed health care program within the state’s prison system and increasing reliance on the use of telemedicine. Since its inception, the program has consistently met its primary goals of improving the quality and accessibility of correctional health care while controlling the costs of that care.
• Implementing Telemedicine in Correctional Facilities
  Author/editor: Peter L. Nacci, et al
  Date: May, 2002
  A report from the National Institute of Justice on implementing telemedicine in correctional institutions. Adobe PDF
• Medicine Behind Bars: Texas' Telemedicine Experiment
  Author/editor: Jennifer Proctor
  Date: October, 2000
  From the American Association of Medical Colleges Reporter vol 9, no 13, describing the UTMB corrections telemedicine program.
• Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Technology: Telemedicine
  The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction initiated a pilot project using videoconferencing technology, also known as telemedicine, in March 1995, connecting the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, the Corrections Medical Center in Columbus, and The Ohio State University Medical Center. Since its inception, the Telemedicine program has conducted approximately 19,000 consultations. Thirty-two prisons participate in the Telemedicine program.
• Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Telemedicine Program
  Author/editor: not provided
  Date: February 2001
  One page overview of DOC program and activities. Adobe PDF
• Spotlight: Telemedicine in Clinical Practice: An Update from the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice
  Author/editor: David Paar
  Date: June/July 2001
  From HEPP, (HIV Education Prison Project), vol 4, issues 6/7. An update of five years of correctional telemedicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. From the HIV Education Prison Project (HEPP) News.
• Telemedicine In Prison
  Author/editor: ReLinda Longan, LVN
  Date: not listed
  An online article from the IMCCA Portal For Conferencing & Collaborative Communications.
• Telemedicine soothes rural aches: EMS class, prison-care, pharmacy programs seek to improve care
  Author/editor: Jennifer Hesse
  Date: April 22, 2004
  Northwest TeleHealth, a nonprofit subsidiary of Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services, has launched several initiatives aimed at helping rural hospitals and other medical facilities save money and lives with a few clicks of a computer mouse.
• The University of Iowa Launches Telemedicine Project with Department of Corrections
  Author/editor: Lin Larson
  Date: March 13, 1998
  For residents of Iowa's state correctional facilities, an appointment with a University of Iowa doctor may no longer mean a trip to Iowa City. Some inmates are now receiving health care services via a two-way video system that enables long-distance telemedicine consultations.

Home health

• A Home Telehealth Glossary
  From Home Care Management Associates, Ltd.
• Affective Computing in Tele-home Health
  Author/editor: Christine Lisetti, Cynthia LeRouge
  Date: January 2004
  This study exemplifies the integration of IS behavioral science in the area of technology adoption and diffusion into the design science process. Adobe PDF
• American Association for Homecare
  The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) is the only national association that represents every line of service in the homecare community, including home health and home medical equipment providers, respiratory and infusion therapy, telemedicine, and rehab and assistive technology.
• American Telemedicine Association's Telehome Care Guidelines
  In 1998 the American Telemedicine Association released its telehome care guidelines. The guidelines provide a comprehensive resource to developing a quality telehome health system.
• 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
• Basic Statistics About Home Care
  A resource on statistics for home health care from the National Association of Home Care (NAHC).
• Developing a Business Plan for Home Telehealth
  Author/editor: Charissa Ashman, Sam Burgiss
  Date: April 2006
  An article from the New York State Association of Health Care Providers about how to develop a business plan for home telehealth programs. Includes a section on calculating ROI for home telehealth Adobe PDF
• Developing Multimodal Intelligent Affective Interfaces for Tele-Home Health Care
  In this article, we focus on tele-home health care whose viable presence in the United States dates from the 1990s.
• e-Health On The Horizon
  Better broadband connections, aging baby boomers, and a lack of nurses are increasing the use of remote medical care, diagnosis, and monitoring.
• 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."
• Helping Patients Manage Their Chronic Conditions
  Author/editor: Thomas Bodenheimer MD, et al.
  Date: June 2005
  This report from the California HealthCare Foundation describes five interlocking strategies that help caregivers work successfully within the collaborative model. It also reviews literature describing the effectiveness of self-management support methods. Adobe PDF
• High-Tech Revolutionizes Health Care at Home
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: January 27, 2005
  In the beginning, personal wellness monitoring meant the bathroom scale and the mercury thermometer. Then they went electronic, and home blood-pressure devices became common. Today, it wouldn't be shocking to see a home cardiac defibrillator sitting in the corner. And it's all getting linked wirelessly to home computers and cell phones, as a health revolution is creeping quietly into our lives.
• Home Care and Hospice State Associations
  A directory of all National Association of Home Care (NAHC) associations and hospices.
• 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 Health Telemanagement Service
  From the University of Illinois at Chicago. Performs ongoing disease telemanagement utilizing the Home Health Monitor (HHM) and the objective physiologic data it provides.
• Home Telehealth Catching On
  In this interview in the May-July 2003 March Networks News, Sam G. Burgiss, Ph.D., the director of the University of Tennessee Telehealth Network and chairman of the American Telemedicine Association’s Special Interest Group on Home Telehealth, offers his assessment on the adoption of Home Telehealth technology in the U.S. market and the impact it will have on the cost and quality of healthcare.
• 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.
• HomeCare On-line
  The virtual headquarters of the National Association for Home Care (NAHC).
• Homes That Makes House Calls
  In MIT researcher Kent Larson's "smart home," technologies that keep a close eye on your health will be built in.
• Information for Tomorrow
  A consultant specializing in home telemedicine applications.
• Intel Exploratory Health
  Research at Intel on to explore evidence-based technologies to help consumers be more proactive in managing their health and wellness needs at home, work, and play.
• Kansas Care Inc.
  Offers comprehensive home health services, including telemedicine.
• 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.
• 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.
• National Association of Home Care and Hospice
  NAHC is committed to representing the interests of the home care and hospice community.
• Nurse and Patient Preferences for Telehealth Home Care
  Author/editor: Bonnie J. Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., et al
  Date: March/April 2004
  Health care planners and providers are becoming increasingly interested in the home as a site of health care delivery. Recent advances in telecommunication technologies have enabled the direct provision of services to patients in the home using tools such as videophones and data transmission over phone lines.
• On the Road with Mobile Tech
  A nursing group saves time and money by better integrating software and mobile technology.
• Outcomes of the Kaiser Permanente Tele-Home Health Research Project
  Author/editor: Barbara Johnston, RN, MSNM&L; Linda Weeler, RN, MSNM&L; Jill Deuser, RN, MBA; Karen H. Sousa, RN, PhD
  Date: January, 2000
  Archives of Family Medicine, Vol. 9 No. 1. Quasi-experimental study conducted from May 1996 to October 1997, to evaluate the use of remote video technology in the home health care setting as well as the quality, use, patient satisfaction, and cost savings from this technology.
• Patient Self-Management Tools: An Overview
  Author/editor: Michael J. Barrett
  Date: June 2005
  This report from the California HealthCare Foundation defines self-management tools as technologies used by consumers to deal with their health issues outside formal medical institutions and provides a taxonomy for better understanding the types of self-management tools available in today’s market. Adobe PDF
• Patients get high-tech health care in a dose of 'telemedicine'
  A program called telemedicine, and it's beginning to take hold as a way to use new technology so nurses can monitor the health of homebound patients via a two-way link.
• Pennsylvania Home Care Association Telehealth Research
  Reports from the Pennsylvania Homecare Association on the cost-effectiveness of home telehealth, and how it has affected nursing recruitment and retention.
• Perspectives of Home Health Care
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: September 2003
  A Health Care Industry Market Update from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), examining freestanding home health agencies and respiratory and infusion services. Adobe PDF
• 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
• RFID Keeps Track of Seniors
  Author/editor: Mark Baard
  Date: March 19, 2004
  Researchers have built two new systems that use radio frequency identification tags to monitor the elderly in their own homes. An article from Wired News.
• Senior living complex goes high-tech
  Site's apartments, houses will offer locators, sensors, cameras.
• 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.
• Technology for Long Term Care
  Information on hundreds of technology products to improve quality of life and care for seniors in long-term care settings. This government-funded site is intended to inform your purchasing decisions; we do not sell products.
• Technology will change health monitoring for patients, doctors
  Proponents say remote monitoring can cut health care costs while checking patient conditions more frequently than would be otherwise feasible.
• Telehealth in Homecare: Changing our Future
  Author/editor: Community Health Care Services Foundation
  Date: 2006
  A educational brochure about home telehealth developed by the Community Health Care Services Foundation, Inc. Adobe PDF
• 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.
• Telemonitors Can Provide Virtual Assisted Living
  Author/editor: Warren Wolfe
  Date: December 1, 2003
  Telemedicine that links patients with doctors in remote clinics is not a new concept. But it is a new tool in Windom, Minnesota, creating "virtual assisted living", that can help frail people avoid unnecessary hospital or nursing home stays.
• The Aware Home
  The Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI) is an interdisciplinary research endeavor at Georgia Tech aimed at addressing the fundamental technical, design, and social challenges presented in creating a home environment that is aware of its occupants whereabouts and activities.
• The Cardiac Connection Program: Home Care That Doesn't Miss A Beat
  Author/editor: Rhonda Chetney
  Date: October 2003
  An article from Home Healthcare Nurse describes the Cardiac Connection program at Sentara Home Care Services in Chesapeake, Virginia, which uses two-way video home telehealth to provide comprehensive home care to patients with congestive heart failure.
• The Dawning Age of "Silver Tech"
  Networked devices that keep tabs on at-risk elderly patients living at home could soon provide better care -- and cut costs.
• The Electronic HouseCall Project
  The Electronic HouseCall (EHC) System is a network approach for assisting patient-centric healthcare management. The EHC system was developed as a collaborative research program by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Medical College of Georgia.
• 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
• Wireless care for elderly and disabled people
  The use of GPS in combination with standard mobile phones, the LOCOMOTION system provides elderly and disabled people with a way to contact carers and in turn, carers know where users are at all times
• 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.

Indian Health/First Nations

• Aboriginal heath care front and centre at summit
  In Canada, the long-awaited first ministers conference on health care began Monday with native leaders saying the health systems serving their communities are in a "shameful condition" compared to the services non-aboriginal Canadians enjoy.
• American Indian Health: An information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of American Indians
  This Web resource on American Indian Health, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is designed to bring together health and medical resources pertinent to the American Indian population including policies, consumer health information, and research.
• Cameron telehealth clinic goes on air Wednesday
  The Cameron Chapter of the Navajo Nation will get a chance to experience health care through telecommunication at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation's telehealth clinic.
• Doctors Track Oklahoma Alzheimer's Patients Via Telemedicine
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: February 10, 2005
  Doctors in UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center are using telemedicine for follow-up appointments with patients in the Choctaw Nation, an American Indian population in southeastern Oklahoma.
• Indian Health Service Telemedicine and Telehealth Projects
  The Indian Health Service is moving rapidly in deploying state-of-the-art technology to bring primary care and specialty medicine to remote locations to reduce geographic barriers between remote, smaller communities and health care providers.
• Telehealth Concerns (letter)
  Author/editor: Joyce Atcheson
  Date: February 10, 2005
  A letter to the editor of the Wawatay News in Ontario, Canada, regarding the safety and effectiveness of initiating a telehealth program for Aboriginal Peoples in Northern Ontario.
• Tribal Connections
  A portal to health information for Indian Health.
• UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
  Doctors in UT Southwestern Medical Center's Alzheimer's Disease Center are using telemedicine for follow-up appointments with patients in the Choctaw Nation, an American Indian population in southeastern Oklahoma.

Military

• Directorate of Telemedicine
  Directorate of Telemedicine at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
• Hospital Gains Perspective Through Television
  Author/editor: PHAN Adam Herrada
  Date: June 24, 2004
  The world of health care at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) extends beyond the common and obvious medical practices established by tradition.
• Military CIOs balance communication, security
  Author/editor: Karen Robb
  Date: July 19, 2004
  Information sharing is a high priority for all agencies, but for the military services improving the flow of information means more than just improving how software works together and overcoming cultural barriers against sharing data with other parts of the government.
• Naval Telemedicine Business Office
  Resources for understanding telemedicine from the US Navy.
• Office focused on building relationships, advancing science
  Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) interest in establishing new relationships with researchers and technology developers in industry and academia.
• Pacific Telehealth & Technology Hui
  The Pacific e-Health Innovation Center has merged with the Veteran's Administration Telemedicine Office to form the Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui. It combines staff from the VA and from the Department of Defense to continue to pursue research and development projects in telemedicine.
• Smaller Is Better On The Battlefield
  Author/editor: Randy Dotinga
  Date: December 17, 2004
  Military physicians are using small-scale versions of blood testing, oxygen, ultrasound and ventilation equipment, which often takes up a lot of space in U.S. hospitals.
• Strategic Plan: VA Midwest Health Care Network 2005-2009
  Author/editor: Department of Veterans Affairs
  Date: November 2004
  The VA Midwest Health Care Network, VISN 23, is one of VA’s 21 Veteran Integrated Health Service Networks. Adobe PDF
• TATRC
  The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), a subordinate element of the United States Army Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), is charged with managing core Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and congressionally mandated projects in telemedicine and advanced medical technologies.
• Telehealth: National Naval Medical Center
  The Telehealth Service shall plan, develop and maintain clinical business practices that promote health care delivery to NNMC’s remote TRICARE and operational DoD beneficiaries.
• 'Telemental Health" of Growing Interest to DoD Medics
  Author/editor: Douglas J. Gillert
  Date: February, 1998
  Press release for DoD medical centers.
• Veterans Health Administration Telehealth
  VHA uses electronic information technology and communication technology to ensure excellence in the health care it delivers to the nation’s veterans.
• Virtual Naval Hospital
  This web site is a joint project between the University of Iowa College of Medicine and the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery that provides an on line health sciences library for patients and providers.

Rural health

• 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.
• BROWNson's Nursing Notes
  Lists rural internet resources and links; the site is part of the Nursing Peer Excellence Ring.
• Capital Area Rural Health Roundtable
  A forum for the exchange of ideas and open discussion on important rural health topics.
• Directory of State Offices of Rural Health and State Rural Health Associations
  From the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a state-by-state guide to rural health offices and associations.
• Evaluating Telemedicine in Rural Settings: Issues and Applications
  Author/editor: Susan M. Capalbo, Christine N. Heggem
  Date: November, 1998
  A 1998 report from the Trade Research Center at Montana State University. Adobe PDF
• Expanding the Reach of the Healing Touch
  Author/editor: Yuki Noguchi
  Date: February 13, 2001
  From the Washington Post, Med-Tel technology links rural patients with specialists.
• Exploratory Evaluation of Rural Applications of Telemedicine
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: February 1, 1997
  From the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP). This project, which was the first nationwide survey of rural telemedicine, examined the status of rural telemedicine. It also developed evaluation tools and methods for agencies and individual programs to use in assessing the contribution of telemedicine to rural health care delivery. Adobe PDF
• Happy in the Heartland
  Author/editor: Michael Gibbons
  Date: December, 2003
  Tucked inside the proposal to revamp Medicare now working its way through Congress, overshadowed by the closely watched debate about prescription drug benefits for seniors, are several amendments designed to help rural facilities recruit and retain physicians by raising their Medicare reimbursement rates. From Advance for Nurse Practitioners.
• ICT Connections: Local Ideas, Global Applications
  Author/editor: Bob Rowe
  Date: December 29, 2004
  Rural telcos and cooperatives have tech-savvy local workforces that anchor their community's economic development and community vitality.
• Institute of Rural Health (Wales) Rural Health Links
  A list of links to world-wide rural health information.
• Leveraging TeleHealth systems in a Rural Healthcare Collaborative
  How rural TeleHealth systems may be capable of looking and functioning.
• Mental Health Services For The Rural Aged
  Author/editor: Robert J. Maiden
  Date: November 2003
  From the Psychiatric Times, a review of the status of mental health services for the rural aged. Telehealth is described as an alternative method of service delivery.
• National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine
  From the University of Iowa.
• National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine Final Report
  Author/editor: Michael G. Kienzle, Susan Zollo
  Date: October 27, 1997
  The purpose of this document is to review the accomplishments, summarize the lessons learned, and delineate outcomes for contract N01-LM-4-3511 from The National Library of Medicine (NLM). This three-year telemedicine project began on April 1, 1994 with the establishment of the National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine at The University of Iowa.
• National Rural Health Association
  National membership organization whose mission is to improve the health and health care of rural Americans and to provide leadership on rural issues through advocacy, communications, education and research.
• New Technologies for Rural Health
  Author/editor: ITU
  Date: September 2000
  Over 40% of the world's population lives in rural and remote areas of developing countries. The final report of Focus Group 7 of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) provides technical analysis together with six final recommendations designed to respond to the challenges of rural connectivity and access. Adobe PDF
• Office of Rural Health Policy
  Provides funding for rural applications of telemedicine.
• Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health Care
  Author/editor: National Academies Press
  Date: 2005
  Issues of rural health care: organization, financing, effectiveness, workforce, delivery, quality, costs, and accessibility of care.
• Rural and Remote Health
  The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice and Policy.
• Rural Assistance Center
  The Rural Assistance Center (RAC) is a new national resource on rural health and human services information.
• Rural Health Care and the Internet: Issues and Opportunities for Using Interactive Communications to Improve Rural Health Care Services
  Author/editor: Neal I. Neuberger, Mary Ella Payne MSPH, RN and Mary Wakefield PhD,RN
  Date: Spring, 2001
  A report on a meeting convened by the George Mason University Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the Office of Rural Health, University of Arizona. Healthcare and technology experts from government, academia and the private sector met on July 14, 2000 in Washington, D.C. to discuss information needs of healthcare providers in rural America. Adobe PDF
• Rural Health Care Delivery: Connecting Communities Through Technology
  Author/editor: Fran Turisco and Jane Metzger
  Date: December 2002
  This report, prepared by First Consulting Group and funded by the California Health Care Foundation, provides an overview and case studies of technology tools available to assist health care providers in rural settings.
• Rural Health Care Division
  RHCD program information for health care providers (HCPs) and telecommunications carriers.
• Rural Health Concerns
  Links to information from the National Library of Medicine on issues of concern for those in rural areas.
• Rural Health Futures
  Consulting firm that specifically focuses on solutions to issues faced by rural Americans.
• Rural Health Services
  From HRSA's Medicaid Primer, a review of the opportunities to use Medicaid as a source of financing for rural health programs.
• Rural Health Toolkit
  An exhaustive set of links to help the rural health administrator find the necessary information to learn about telemedicine and make an informed decision about the viability of telemedicine as a healthcare delivery option.
• Rural Information Center (RIC)
  RIC is USDA's information service for rural areas. RIC provides funding sources and information on a variety of rural subjects including rural health, rural development, and more for rural officials, organizations, communities, and citizens nationwide, 1-800-633-7701.
• RuralNet
  Rural health resource from Marshall University School of Medicine.
• RuralPsych
  Resource center for rural behavioral health.
• School of Rural Health
  From Monash University in Traralgon, Victoria.
• Taking Distance Out of Caring
  Author/editor:  Bruce Millis and Melvin H. Nutig, M.D.
  Date: March/April 1998
  Reprinted from California County, telemedicine projects in counties throughout the state are making high-quality medical care available to Californians regardless of where they live. Research studies and legislative support are broadening this new technology's application in a managed-care environment always looking for cost-benefits.
• Technology Use in Rural Health Care: California Survey Results
  Author/editor: Fran Turisco, Tania Shahid, Lauri Paoli
  Date: April 2003
  A California Health Care Foundation report of a survey of providers throughout the state to determine their current use of IT and future plans for implementing technological solutions. Adobe PDF
• The Role of Telemedicine in Rural Health Care
  Author/editor: National Rural Health Association
  Date: February 1998
  This issue paper presents the National Rural Health Association's (NRHA) position regarding telemedicine.
• Using real-time video conferencing, doctors can talk to their patients
  A new program developed by an Arizona university and Navajo Nation health agencies could result in better health care for people in remote areas and make it easier to visit with doctors.
• Whitten Receives Grant to Establish Wireless Link to Nursing Homes
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: October 23, 2003
  MSU telecommunication associate professor Pamela Whitten has been awarded a grant worth nearly $1.2 million to establish a wireless network to link three rural nursing home facilities in Michigan with an MSU teaching nursing home facility.

School-based

• Cuero Independent School District and County Hospital link up using HealthCare Vision Imaging to Provide School-Based Telemedicine
  Author/editor: Craig Walker
  Date: June 1, 2001
  Press release from HealthCare Vision, describing a collaboration between Cuero Community Hospital, Cuero Independent School District and HealthCare Vision, Inc. that allows the school nurse at one location to gather information on a student’s health condition.
• Evolving Pediatrician Perceptions of a Telemedicine Program
  Author/editor: Eve-Lynn Nelson, David Cook, Pamela Shaw, Georgina Peacock, Gary Doolittle
  Date: July, 2001
  From the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 6, number 4, telemedicine will have many pediatric applications over the next five years and beyond, providing services and information to families. The authors describe how pediatricians who provided telemedicine services between a university medical center and an urban school district perceived technology use and patient relationships in the telemedicine program.
• High-Tech Hookups for Low-Income Kids With Asthma
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: Winter 2003
  Students at three San Francisco elementary schools in the Bayview-Hunters Point community will be some of the first in the nation with asthma to benefit from telemedicine.
• TeleHealth
  A school-based project from the Eastern AHEC and East Carolina University to improve access to health care resources for students.
• TeleKidcare
  A program at the University of Kansas Medical Center, from the Best Practice Initiative at the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
• Telemedicine Program: Aching Ear On TV
  Author/editor: Mary Bustamante
  Date: February 4, 2005
  Walter Douglas Elementary, in Flowing Wells, Arizona, is one of only two in the state participating in the Arizona Telemedicine Program, which brings video and medical equipment to the school and gives children the opportunity to get a medical examination when they are ill.

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• Attention shoppers!
  Author/editor: Gary Baldwin
  Date: Arpil 19, 1999
  From 1999 AMNews, with the local mall as a backdrop, telemedicine venture tests technology, patient expectations and conventional economic wisdom.
• Digital Hospitals Move Off the Drawing Board
  Author/editor: E. Drazen and J. Fortin
  Date: October 2003
  This report provides an overview of digital hospitals in the U.S. It includes both new digital hospitals and those that are transforming specific processes or departments. Prepared by the First Consulting Group for the California Healthcare Foundation. Adobe PDF
• Patients monitored from afar
  Doctors, nurses check patients in 3 hospitals. An electronic ICU program simultaneously tracks vital medical information on as many as 62 patients receiving intensive care in the hospital at any one time -- from an off-site clinical operations center miles away
• Using real-time video conferencing, doctors can talk to their patients
  A new program developed by an Arizona university and Navajo Nation health agencies could result in better health care for people in remote areas and make it easier to visit with doctors.

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