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- Multi-purpose Health Care Telemedicine Systems with Mobile Communication Link Support
Author/editor: E. Kyriacou, et al
Date: March 24, 2003
Ambulances, Rural Health Centers (RHC) or other remote health location such as ships navigating in wide seas are common examples of possible emergency sites, while critical care telemetry and telemedicine home follow-ups are important issues of telemonitoring.
- Telemedicine and Trauma Care
Author/editor: R. Stephen Smith
Date: August, 2001
From Southern Medical Journal Volume 94, No. 8, advances in technology have made it possible for telemedicine to be used in multiple areas, including trauma care. The potential influence of telemedicine in the care of trauma patients is discussed with reference to how it may affect patterns of referral, consultation, and treatment. Adobe PDF
- 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.
- The success of emergency telemedicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo
Author/editor: David G. Ellis, James Mayrose
Date: Spring 2003
Though a relatively young program starting in 1992, it demonstrates
steady and consistent progress in the areas of clinical services, education and research as it continues to develop as a comprehensive university telemedicine program. Adobe PDF
- Trauma Surgery Goes Virtual to Aid Rural Arizona
Author/editor:
Date:
A new "teletrauma" system that links the emergency room at Southeast Arizona Medical Center in Douglas, Ariz., and the Level 1 Trauma Center at University Medical Center in Tucson is saving lives.
- University of Mississippi TelEmergency
In response to a lack of emergency care and physicians in many rural areas of Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Medical Center has developed and will direct the operation of a rural health telemedicine initiative called TelEmergency.
- Allhealthnet.com Telenursing
Several links to telenursing resources, including licensure, associations, telehome care and links to sites in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
- Allnurses.com
Internet nursing resources.
- AMIA Working Group on Nursing Informatics
The American Medical Informatics Association NI working group aims to promote the advancement of nursing informatics within the larger multidisciplinary context of health informatics.
- ATA Telenursing Special Interest Group (SIG)
The Telenursing SIG provides collective input, guidance, and information from Telenurses in various settings, regarding the emerging role, policy, educational preparation, competencies, clinical orientation, and use of telemedicine/telehealth techologies. ATA membership required for joining.
- BROWNson's Nursing Notes
Lists rural internet resources and links; the site is part of the Nursing Peer Excellence Ring.
- Canadian Nursing Informatics Association
The mission of the CNIA is to be the voice for Health Informatics in Canada.
- Competencies for Telehealth Technologies in Nursing
This book allows RNs using telehealth technologies to guide and evaluate their practice. Practitioners and administrators in all practice settings should review the competencies, adapt them as necessary for specific settings, and develop performance criteria for them. Also includes a glossary of terms pertaining to telehealth and a list of sources for more information on telehealth. $$
- Developing Telehealth Protocols: A Blueprint for Success
Formatted primarily as a checklist, Developing Telehealth Protocols: A Blueprint for Success serves as a measurement tool and a reference guide for all health care professionals. This book will help any user or administrator of telehealth systems develop useful protocols for clinical practice situations as well as to prepare funding proposals. $$
- E-Health and Telephone Nursing Bulletin Board
From Carol Stock and Associates.
- 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.
- Ethics and the Brave New World of E-Health
Author/editor: Peggy Jo Maddox
Date: November 21, 2002
The purpose of this article is to explore selected e-Health trends and emerging ethical concerns. From the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.
- Health Information Privacy Protection: Crisis or Common Sense?
Author/editor: Joanne K. Kumekawa, BA, MBA
Date: September 30, 2001
From Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, this paper briefly touches upon new sweeping federal privacy standards mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The article outlines who and what is covered under the new rules, considers how practitioners can approach compliance with common sense, addresses concerns related to risk management, discusses consumer health privacy issues, and notes the difficulty of evaluating these rules and regulations. The article also looks at some unique privacy issues facing telemedicine and telehealth practitioners.
- I.T. Often a Tough Sell to Nursing Staffs
Author/editor: Greg Gillespie
Date: April 2002
From the online Health Data Management, April 2002. Like physicians,
nurses can offer resistance to information technology when I.T. comes
between them and patients.
- IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics
IMIA-NI is the Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).
It is a non profit organization, originally established by IMIA in 1983 as Working Group 8 of IMIA, dedicated to serving the specific needs of nurses in the field of nursing informatics.
- Irish Nursing Board: An Bord Altranais
An Bord Altranais was established by the Nurses Act, 1950 to take over the functions of two bodies, the Central Midwives Board and the General Nursing Council, established in 1918 and 1919 respectively. An Bord Altranais was re-constituted and its functions were re-defined and expanded by the Nurses Act, 1985.
- ITIN: Official Journal of the British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group
This journal aims to present papers, comment and other materials which are relevant, authoritative and wide ranging in the area of information and communications technologies, directly or indirectly influenced by and/or influencing nursing and the professions allied to medicine, in the UK, Europe and the wider international community.
- Journal of E-health Nursing
Online journal from Carol M. Stock & Associates.
- Journal of Mobile Informatics
Site dedicated to reviewing IT hardware and software; includes a nursing perspective.
- McKesson Teleworks Nursing Care
Author/editor: Toni Kistner
Date: April, 2005
McKesson's Work@Home program is thriving, and yields the company impressive cost savings. The division of the Fortune 12 corporation wanted to reduce call center nurses' hourly wage (at home nurses would make 20% less), increase its pool of applicants in new geographic areas and reduce its real estate footprint.
- Moving Telehealth Forward Through Benchmarking
Author/editor: Julie P. Cartwright
Date: Fall 2004
Telehealth nursing has come into it’s own as a practice specialty and is recognized with its own certification exam offered by the National Credentialing Council (NCC). Have we been effective in moving a nursing practice modality, traditionally practiced hands-on and during face-to-face encounters, to the less traditional mode of Telenursing?
- NHS Direct
NHS Direct is a 24-hour nurse advice and health information service based in
the United Kingdom. It provides services including: what to do if you or
your family are feeling ill, particular health conditions,
local healthcare services, such as doctors, dentists or late night opening
pharmacies, and self-help and support organisations.
- Nursing, Technology and the Experience of Illness
Author/editor: Jo Ann Walton
Date: July-September, 2002
From the online ICUs and Nursing Web Journal, the author discusses the impact of technology on nursing. Adobe PDF
- Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
A peer-reviewed, electronic journal providing a free forum for discussion of
issues in nursing. Published by Kent State University College of Nursing.
- Overview and Summary: Telehealth: Promise or Peril?
Author/editor: Linda Q. Thede PhD, RN,C
Date: September 30, 2001
From the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Vol. 6 #3. Some fear that telehealth will reduce the number of nurses and other healthcare professionals needed; others worry about privacy and legalities. Regardless of one's beliefs, telehealth is not likely to go away. In this introduction are links to 3 articles on telenursing which examine some of these perils.
- Telehealth Issues for Nursing
Comments on telemedicine from the American Nursing Association.
- Telehealth Nursing Practice Core Course
From the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nurses, a comprehensive course for telehealth nursing practice available online and on CD-ROM.
- Telehealth: Are You At Risk?
Author/editor: Georgia Martin
Date: 2002
This article is a brief historical perspective of the evolution of telehealth, barriers to implementation, and current solutions being proposed to regulate telehealth practice. It includes related liability issues, case reviews, and some recommendations to help limit risk. From the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Legal Department.
- Telenursing Blog
A blog from Ruth Johnson, former editor of the online newsletter, 'Busy Signals,' for nurses interested in telephone nursing.
- Telephone Nursing: Avoiding Legal and Practice Obstacles
A seminar produced by Carol Stock and Associates.
- Telephone Triage in Western Australia
Author/editor: C Rabune and AJ Wilson
Date: February 4, 2002
The article from the eMJA (Medical Journal of Australia) describes
the development and operations of the first large-scale Australian medical
telephone triage centre. Studies have commenced to evaluate efficacy and
safety of the service, as well as gauge the impact on demand for healthcare
services. Also available as a PDF file.
- Telephone Triage Nursing
A list of links to information on telephone triage.
- The Remote Call Center
Author/editor: Mark Dwyer
Date: April/May 2005
Today, because of ever tightening budgets, remote staff is quickly becoming a fiscal necessity. Many organizations are employing remote nurses to provide telephone triage services for one to two-hour shifts, while others are completely decentralizing their call centers, in an effort to reduce their overall staffing expense.
- Telemedicine at the Community Cancer Center
Author/editor: Ace Allen and Astara March
Date: January/February 2002
From Oncology Issues, vol 17, No1, overview of the use of telemedicine at the Department of Oncology at University of Kansas Medical Center.
- The Technical Performance and Clinical Feasibility of Telecolposcopy
Author/editor: Diane M. Harper, MD, MPH; Megan M. Moncur, MS; et al
Date: July 7, 2000
From the Journal of Family Practice, the purpose of the study was to demonstrate the technical performance and clinical feasibility of a telecolposcopic system through assessment of image transmission veracity, ease of office system implementation, and the patient's acceptance of the electronic image transmission.
- Multimedia System Delivers Obstetrics into the Digital Age
Information from the Pregnancy Institute about telemedicine and obstetric care.
- Telemedicine: Cost-effective Management of High-Risk Pregnancy
Author/editor: Morrison, J, Bergauer, N.K., Jacques,D., Coleman,S.K., Stanziano,
G.J.
Date: November, 2001
This peer-reviewed paper in the journal Managed Care evaluates the
cost-effectiveness of telemedicine services in patients diagnosed with
preterm labor (PTL).
- Ten years' clinical experience with telemedicine in prenatal care in Hungary
Author/editor: Miklos Torok, Zsuzsa Turi and Ferenc Kovacs
Date: 1999
A multicentre randomized clinical trial of prenatal home care of pregnant women was carried out in Hungary. Pregnant women registered contraction activity of the uterus daily using a portable contraction monitor. The data were transmitted directly to the physician's PC for analysis.
- FDA Approves First Pacemaker Capable of Real-Time Monitoring
Author/editor: Not listed
Date: October 12, 2001
The Biotronik Home Monitoring System received FDA approval in October 2001,
according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.
- Flexible Cardiac Monitoring System Makes an Impact
Author/editor: Juli Patterson
Date: April 22, 2004
One facility (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) enacts a solution that demonstrated return on investment in three months.
- Telecardiology: The future of pediatric cardiac care
Author/editor: Catherine L. Webb, MD
Date: Fall 1999
From the Journal of the Children's Memorial Hospital, this article describes the new telecardiology technology as compared to traditional methods of neonatal cardiac care and outlines ongoing research efforts in this area.
- Telemedicine Applications in Pediatric Cardiology
Author/editor: Craig Sable
Date: July 2004
Utililzation of telemedicine had increased significantly over the last five years and telecardiology is growing faster than any other field in telemedicine. Adobe PDF
- Telemedicine Rings Off The Hook
Author/editor: Hampton Pearson and Steve Lewis
Date: November 7, 2003
Implantable heart devices by companies such as Medtronic and Biotronik can immediately notify physicians of irregular heart activity.
- Telemonitoring in telecardiology: ECG transmission by mobile phone
Author/editor: Negoslav ÐAJA, Irini RELJIN, Branimir RELJIN
Date: 2001
The paper describes the new way of ECG telemonitoring. By using the electronic and telecommunications equipment of the newest generation it is possible to build a portable ECG machine embedded in the mobile phone. Adobe PDF
- Telephone Heart Sensor Under Test
An article in the January 22, 2003 online BBC News describes an implanted heart monitor which sends data to physicians through a phone line.
- American Academy of Dermatology Telemedicine Position Statement
Approved by the AAD Board in February, 2002 and amended in May 2004, the statement provides recommendations for credentialing, medical records, privacy, system capabilities, reimbursement, licensing, member involvement in telemedicine, and telemedicine research.
- Application of an XML-Based Store-Forward System to Urban Teledermatology
Author/editor: P. Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, T. Cannava, W. Kramer, S. Dyck, R. Colven, MD, C. Haycox, MD, PhD4, R. Gray, T. Norris, MD, MHA, S. Fuller, PhD
Date: not listed
The overall question the investigators sought to explore in this study revolves around the role of store-forward teledermatology in an urban primary care/tertiary care spoke/hub setting. Adobe PDF
- British Teledermatology Society advice on developing a teledermatology service
Teledermatology is evolving in British dermatology and many new participants are interested in guidance on how it is best developed.
- Global teledermatology: a specific Web application for dermatological consultation
Author/editor: Massone, C., Hofmann-Wellenhof, R., et al
Date: March 2004
The goal of telederm.org is to develop a best-practice model for teleconsultation using skin diseases as a paradigm.
- International Society of Teledermatology
The society promotes the exchange of knowledge and expertise in all fields of dermatology on a worldwide level providing an interactive discussion forum that will be launched early in 2005. Based in Graz, Austria.
- Internet Dermatology Society
Advancing the science of dermatology through technology and global communications.
- Multicentre randomised control trial comparing real time teledermatology with conventional outpatient dermatological care: societal cost-benefit analysis.
Author/editor: R. Wootton
Date: May 6, 2000
From the British Medical Journal, 2000, 320:1252-6. Compares real time teledermatology with outpatient dermatology in terms of clinical outcomes, cost-benefits, and patient reattendance.
- Store-and-Forward Teledermatology
Author/editor: G. Burg, MD, Urs Bader, MD
Date: July 17, 2001
A description of studies evaluating store and forward teledermatology.
- TeleDerm Solutions
Founded in 2001, Telederm Solutions, Inc. provides cost-efficient online dermatology consultations for healthcare organizations, physicians and their patients.
- 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.
- Teledermatology
A book published in 2002 and edited by Richard Wootton and Amanda Oakley. It is a comprehensive companion for anyone involved in planning and conducting teledermatology services including dermatologists, general practitioners, paramedical staff, health service managers, IT and website technicians.
- Teledermatology Toolkit
Author/editor: Lynda Sibson RN
Date: October 2004
A unique feature of the TIE-Europe site. Toolkits for different specialties are based on the theme of practical education. As much information as possible as been collated, with supporting evidence where available, to bring together a comprehensive 'how to do it' guide.
- Teledermatoscopy in Switzerland - A Preliminary Evaluation
Author/editor: R.P. Braun, M.D. and Prof. J.H. Saurat, M.D.
Date: not listed
Report from the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Geneva and DHURDV Geneva/Lausanne
- Telemedicine and Teledermatology
An October 2002 book published in the Current Issues in Dermatology Series by Karger Scientific and Medical Publishing.
- The Idiot's Guide To Teledermatology Imaging
Word document downloads from US military's Tricare Web site, offering how-to guides with techniques for digital imaging of patients with skin disease to create a store and forward teledermatology consult from a satellite clinic or a deployed unit.
- Tech solution to night-time doctor shortage
An Irish specialist says it’s possible for one neurologist based in Australia by day to cover the entire United Kingdom at night.
- Telehealth and Epilepsy
Author/editor: Peter J. Snyder, et al.
Date: September 16, 2003
Seizures that are caused by parasitic worm infestation have been of keen interest to neurologists for over 250 years and neurocysticercosis (NCC), in particular, may currently be the single most common cause of seizures in third world countries.
- Telemedicine Improving Stroke Patient's Survival and Recovery Rate
Author/editor: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Date: May 11, 2005
In June 2005, the new Neuro Critical Care Center, operated by Brain Saving Technologies Inc. in Wellesley Hills, Mass., will begin to connect emergency-room doctors at a number of suburban hospitals in the state with a remote university hospital that will act as a "hub" with on-call critical-care neurologists who can assist in making remote diagnoses and treatment recommendations for suspected stroke patients.
- Teleneurology
A new book from the Royal Society of Medicine Press series of books on telemedicine specialties. Edited by Richard Wootton and Victor Patterson, the book details how the practice of teleneurology can improve access to specialist neurological services for patients worldwide.
- A View From Afar
Author/editor: Greg Gillespie
Date: June 2003
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, uses a telemedicine program to help diagnose a devastating eye disease before it's too late.
- ATA Ocular Telehealth Special Interest Group (SIG)
The American Telemedicine Association Ocular Telehealth SIG (formally the International Consortium for Ocular Telehealth (ICOT) Chapter) promotes the development and advancement of the use of telemedicine in fields related to ophthalmology, optometry and optical engineering. ATA membership required for joining.
- Digital Medicine Comes To Urban Neighborhoods
Author/editor: Ginger Campbell
Date: April 1, 2004
Question: What does South Central Los Angeles and a tropical island have in common? Answer: In both places you can’t get to a medical specialist when you need one. This program serves the underserved in urban Los Angeles, California.
- 'Laser vision' offers new insights
US firm Microvision has developed a system that projects lasers onto the retina, allowing users to view images on top of their normal field of vision.
- Siemens MedStage Telemedicine Solution Enables Remote Ophthalmic and Disease Management Services
Author/editor: Siemens Medical Solutions
Date: April 29, 2004
MedStage's unique capabilities have been proven in a number of successful
projects in Europe including tele-ophthalmology, home-monitoring and disease management applications.
- 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.
- Tele-ophthalmology Research
A Division of Epidemiology and International Centre for Eye Health.
- Teleophthalmology Vendors
Links to companies providing ophthalmoscopes and other ophthalmic products.
- WestNet Tele-Ophthalmology Project (Canada)
A press release from January 22, 2003 detailing an opthalmology project created to help screen North West Territories people with diabetes for early signs of the retinal deterioration that can lead to blindness.
- AFIP Department of Telepathology
From the Armed Forces Institute.
- ATA Telepathology Special Interest Group (SIG)
The American Telemedicine Association Telepathology Special Interest Group provides leadership and support for individuals charged with developing and managing telepathology systems.
- Frequently Asked Questions on TelePathology
From the UPMC Health System, University of Pittsburgh.
- iPath Internet Pathology Suite
iPath is an open source framework for building telepathology/telemedicine applications.
- 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.
- Pathology Lab Tests Virtual Microscope
Author/editor: Paula Gould
Date: 2003
German researchers have developed a virtual microscope system that allows histological information to be evaluated, transferred, and stored in digital format.
- Store-and-forward Telepathology
Author/editor: Vincenzo Della Mea, PhD
Date: 1999
Published in European Telemedicine 1998/99, this first briefly describes the process of diagnosis and consultation in pathology, then analyses the store-and-forward solutions for doing this, including image acquisition, storage and delivery.
- TelePathology Consultants, P.C.
TelePathology Consultants, P.C. is a professional medical corporation with the mission of promoting the use of telepathology as a clinical, research and educational tool in human pathology. Their telepathology activities on the Web are not for profit and for academic purposes only.
- UICC Telepathology Center
This is a public pathology service based in Berlin for providing a Second Opinion to pathologists world wide. The diagnoses are contributed by international experts on a voluntary basis. As a part of the UICC (International Union against Cancer) endeavour to improve quality in cancer diagnostics, its use is free of charge.
- 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 Hookup 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
- Policy Statement: Scope of Practice Issues in the Delivery of Pediatric Health Care
Author/editor: n/a
Date: February 2003
Policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which states that non-physician clinicians providing care in underserved areas should be supported by consulting pediatricians and other physicians using technologies, including telemedicine. Adobe PDF
- TeleKidcare
A program at the University of Kansas Medical Center, from the Best Practice Initiative at the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- Telemedicine Helps Day Care Diagnosis
Author/editor: Ben Dobbin
Date: May 4, 2005
A federally backed project offering "virtual doctor" visits at seven child-care centers in Rochester, New York, a city of 220,000, has proven so successful since 2001 that it is being expanded this spring and summer to five more centers and 10 public schools throughout the city and suburbs.
- Telepediatrics: Telemedicine and Child Health
Another in the Royal Society of Medicine series, this book is written by an international team of contributors who are working with paediatric telemedicine services. It covers a broad spectrum of telepaediatric topics including burn care, diabetes, asthma, radiology, primary and community care, and much more.
- Clinical Pharmacy Travel Medicine Services: A New Frontier
The CPITC is unique from other travel medicine clinics because it is a pharmacist-run telepharmacy service.
- Electronic Prescribing: The Next Revolution in Pharmacy?
Author/editor: Carol Sardinha
Date: January/February, 1998
From the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, vol 4, number 1. Managed care organizations are field testing computer programs that link the prescribing physician with dispensing pharmacies.
- NABP Survey Indicates Increased Telepharmacy Regulation
Author/editor: not listed
Date: July, 1998
From the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. NABP's telepharmacy survey presented the state boards with questions related to four telepharmacy practice scenarios reflecting actual questions the Association has received from pharmacists or pharmacies with regard to activities they would like to perform or are currently performing.
- 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.
- Telepharmacy: A New Application for Telemedicine
Author/editor: Kristie L. Carevic, Pharm.D., Willard S. Harris, M.D., Nicholas A. Coblio, B.S., Kim Mowrey, Pharm.D. and Michael T. McCormick, M.S., James A. Haley
Date: not listed
From the American Medical Informatics Association, a report on testing feasibility of using telemedicine to bring the clinical and integrative skills of centrally located Pharmacists
electronically to distant patients.
- Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America
Author/editor: New Freedom Commission on Health Care
Date: 2003
The final 2003 report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Goal six of the report includes the use of telehealth and electronic medical records for mental health care.
- American Association for Technology in Psychiatry
A nonprofit membership organization of physicians and mental health professionals dedicated to the development and use of information technology to improve the quality and availability of psychiatric and mental health care.
- APA Committee on Telemedical Services
Resources from the American Psychiatric Association, including the Resource Paper on Telepsychiatry Via Videoconferencing.
- APA Statement on Services by Telephone, Teleconferencing, and Internet
Author/editor: American Psychological Association
Date: November 5, 1997
A statement by the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association.
- Behavioural Telehealth: Research and Development at the University of British Columbia
Specific objectives of this project are to create an education-focused
network of telehealth researchers at UBC and elsewhere, to develop a
directory of telehealth resources relevant to health education in B.C. for
use by UBC faculty, students, and the community at large, and
to determine the viability of specific forms of telehealth through the
assessment of two pilot projects.
- CyberPsychology and Behavior
A journal dealing with the impact of the Internet, multi-media and virtual reality on behavior published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
- Delivering Behavioral Telehealth Via the Internet: e-Health
Author/editor: Marlene Maheu, Ph. D.
Date: February 1, 2000
An overview of the many ways to assist the development of behavioral telehealth and Ehealth.
- 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.
- Exposing The Risk, Yet Moving Forward: A Behavioral E-Health Model
Author/editor: Marlene M. Maheu
Date: July 2001
From the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, vol 6, issue 4, this article offers a telehealth-based model for behavioral e-health service delivery.
- Forensic Psychiatry and Medicine: Telemedicine
A collection of resources from Dr. Harold J. Bursztajn's web site.
- International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO)
Formed in 1997 to promote the understanding, use, and development of online communication, with information and technology for the international mental health community.
ISMHO is a nonprofit corporation.
- 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.
- Monitoring Mental Health With Help From The Computer
Author/editor: Mark Moran
Date: February 7, 2000
From American Medical News. In the practice of psychiatry, some clinicians say that computer technology can be used to track patients and hasten standardization of evaluation and diagnosis.
- Psychological Applications on the Internet
Author/editor: Azy Barak, PhD
Date: October, 1999
From Applied and Preventive Psychology, 8, 231-246. The article critically reviews various psychological applications in use on the Internet, with special emphasis given to their promises and advantages as well as to their shortcomings and problems.
- PTSD and Telemental Health
A Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder fact sheet on PTSD and the use of telehealth.
- SLaM Telepsychiatry Program
Author/editor: n/a
Date: August 2003
A telepsychiatry programme in South London and Maudsley (SLAM). NHS Trust
has developed a number of projects within SLAM and externally with local primary care providers over the past few years.
- States Require Reimbursement for Telemedicine
Author/editor: n/a
Date: March 19, 2004
Five states, California, Louisiana,Texas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky, have passed legislation mandating private insurance coverage of medical services provided by telemedicine, according to the American Telemedicine Association. An article from Psychiatric News.
- Taking telehealth to the next step
Author/editor: Lisa Rabasca
Date: April, 2000
From the APA's Monitor on Psychology, vol 31 no 4, providing psychotherapy from a distance is still in its infancy, but it may not be long until it's mainstream, experts predict.
- Telehealth Bibliography
From Telehealth net - a short bibliography with emphasis on mental health.
- Telehealth Handbook from the Centre for Telehealth
Author/editor: n/a
Date: 2003
This Handbook is a resource to the
growing number of people working in
the field of telehealth, with a particular focus on applications in the area of mental health and addictions. Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation Unit (Mheccu). Adobe PDF
- Telemedicine Advances Could Expand Psychiatric Care
Author/editor: Mark Moran
Date: March 19, 2004
Most psychiatrists agree that when possible, face-to-face assessment and treatment are optimal. But they say that telepsychiatry is a close-enough approximation to make it more than acceptable when the alternative is no access to psychiatric services. Article from Psychiatric News.
- Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health
Released in January 2003, edited by Richard Wootton and Peter Yellowlees, and published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press.
- Telepsychiatry as a Case Study of Presence: Do You Know What You Are Missing?
Author/editor: Jeanine Warisse Turner
Date: July, 2001
From the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol 6 no 4, this study explores the use of videoconferencing technology as a means of providing mental health consultations across distances.
- 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.
- Telepsychiatry Brings Care To Underserved Populations
Author/editor: Mark Moran
Date: June 18, 2004
Teleconferencing can aid in consultation with colleagues and help psychiatrists reach the burgeoning numbers of mentally ill people in jails and prisons.
- 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.
- Telepsychiatry's Untapped Potential: When Will It Pay to Deliver?
Author/editor: William Kanapaux
Date: January 2005
Telepsychiatry holds the promise of providing a link between urban areas with a high concentration of psychiatrists and rural areas in dire need of specialists to provide consultations to clinicians and direct services to patients.
- 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.
- The Effectiveness of Telepsychiatry: A Review
Author/editor: Hilty, D.M., Liu, W., Marks, S., Callahan, E.J.
Date: October 2003
Telepsychiatry appears effective, and recommendations are offered for further evaluation of its effectiveness. Adobe PDF
- Towards Telepsychiatry As A Value-added Business
Author/editor: John Bennett
Date: December 29, 1997
Viewpoints on what role technology can play with relationship to telepsychiatry, to reduce costs in patient treatment while at the same time adding value to psychiatric health care.
- U.S. Mental Health Telemedicine: Survey-Based Overview of Usage and Successful Systems
A 1997 report from Feedback Research Services. The telepsychiatry networks profiled in the U.S. Mental Health Telemedicine report have demonstrated how to overcome administrative, operational, and technical barriers to more equitably provide mental health assistance to patients who may otherwise remain unserved.
- 1 UltraRad.com
Provides free resources and peer networking opportunities for professionals
involved in the diagnostic imaging sector. Includes industry news, press
releases, extensive imaging links, online articles and an imaging registry.
- ACR Standard for Teleradiology
The American College of Radiology standards for the practice of teleradiology.
- Adoption-related Aspects of an Information System in a Health Care Setting
Author/editor: Marianne C. Maass, Reima Suomi
Date: January 2004
This case study is connected to the adoption of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) in Turku University Central Hospital. Adobe PDF
- American Radiology Services, Inc.
Offers a comprehensive range of radiology services using the latest
technology, including PACS and Teleradiology.
- An Introduction to Teleradiology
Online booklet from the University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital.
- Applied Radiology Online
Includes information on PACs and teleradiology.
- AuntMinnie.com: Radiology
Radiology vendors and products directories.
- Center for Devices and Radiological Health Telemedicine Related Activities
Author/editor: Melvyn Greberman M.D.
Date: July 11, 1996
A 1996 report on telemedicine-related activities of the CDRH which also details Center initiatives to clarify and improve their operations in this area.
- Decisions in Imaging Economics
Decisions in Imaging Economics is dedicated to helping radiologists, radiology administrators, and health care executives meet the increasingly complex economic challenges of providing quality imaging in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
- DI Online
Digital Imaging Magazine online.
- Digital Image Archiving and Communications: The Potential Rewards
Author/editor: n/a
Date: July 2003
From the online Applied Radiology, this article demonstrates how a properly implemented system can save money and improve patient care by addressing the commonly asked questions that can arise when beginning this transition. Free registration required for full text.
- Doctors prescribe iPods for storage
As a tool for radiologists at the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Eurad Consult: European Teleradiology Center
Eurad Consult is the initiative of two radiologists with a clear vision on how medical imaging and technology can improve the performance of medical specialists all over the world and support in cases of lack of capacity.
- From Altoona to Bangalore: CT scans, MRIs sent overseas in outsourcing twist
Author/editor: L. Tanner
Date: December 5, 2004
When a patient in Altoona, Pa., needs an emergency brain scan in the middle of the night, a doctor in Bangalore, India, is asked to interpret the results.
- Hardin Meta Directory Radiology and Imaging Page
Links to several radiology and imaging sites.
- Image Computing Systems Laboratory
Includes links to several telemedicine and medical imaging resources.
- Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
The IHE initiative is a project designed to advance the state of data
integration in healthcare. Sponsored by the Radiological Society of North
America (RSNA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS), it brings together medical professionals and the healthcare
information and imaging systems industry to agree upon, document and
demonstrate standards-based methods of sharing information in support of
optimal patient care.
- Massachusetts General Hospital Teleradiology Services
The Teleradiology Division offers a comprehensive diagnostic program to
provide access to sub-specialty expertise. The program is dedicated to
bringing real-time expert sub-specialty radiologic opinions to all corners
of the globe.
- National Orthopedic Imaging Associates
The NOIA mission is to deliver best-in-class musculoskeletal image
interpretation services in a timely, reliable manner to imaging facilities
and referring physicians. We are comprised of a team of sub-specialized
sports medicine radiologists. In addition to providing the
diagnostic reading and report transcription capability, our business,
technical, and operational team has developed a network of over 20 sites
across the United States.
- New Markets Emerge for PACS and Teleradiology
Author/editor: Paula Gould
Date: 2003
PACS pioneers from leading institutions in the U.S, Western Europe, and Asia now find themselves sharing the conference podium with speakers accustomed to working in more basic healthcare facilities. A report on the CARS (Computer Assisted Radiology) 2003 conference.
- Nighthawk Radiology Services
NightHawk Radiology Services is the worldwide leading provider of overnight and off-hour radiology coverage for hospitals and clinics across America
- PACS for the Independent Imaging Center
Author/editor: Ted Huss, John Vlahos
Date: April 2004
From the April 2004 online issue
of Decisions in Imaging Economics. A successful PACS implementation for a freestanding imaging center is contingent on getting the right functionality.
- PACS Industry Vendors
A listing of approximately 185 PACS vendors.
- PACSweb
A comprehensive PACs site. Free registration required.
- Planning for PACS
Author/editor: Steve Wagner
Date: January 13, 2004
Evolving since the early 1980s, PACS has grown to become a mainstream phenomenon. However, planning is important. This article from Health Facilities Management provides ideas on infrastructure needs and planning for installation of a PACS system.
- Radiological Society of North America
The RSNA promotes and develops standards of radiology related sciences through education and research.
- Radlinx Group
Provides off-site teleradiology services, providing night, daytime, weekend, and vacation radiology coverage for hospitals, medical groups, and individual physician practices.
- RIS/PACS Considered
Author/editor: Jim Maughan
Date: June 2003
While considerable benefits can be realized by implementing an integrated RIS/PACS, they must be weighed against the cost and headache of replacing an existing RIS. From the online Decisions in Imaging Economics.
- Royal College of Radiologists (UK)
This site contains a wide range of information on College activities and resources.
- Team Health Radiology Services
Provides hospitals with comprehensive management and staffing of their
Radiology Departments.
- Telemedicine PACS Resource Page
Links to many PACS and Teleradiology sites, information on vendors, societies, and meetings.
- Teleradiology Associates
Based in Tampa, Florida, Teleradiology Associates offers a suite of teleradiology services, with board certified radiologists who are assisted by a dedicated support staff.
- 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.
- Ten Tips for PACS Planners
Author/editor: Pamela Harlem, et al.
Date: October, 2003
Hit the ground running with these 10 tips to ease PACS implementation. From Decisions in Imaging Economics.
- The 2001 ATSP Report on Radiology Facilities and the Market for Teleradiology Services, Southwestern United States
The report includes analysis and interpretation, as well as a summary of the
findings generated from this first regional survey. It also includes an appendix providing technological guidelines for implementing a teleradiology program. The report is available on CD-ROM only. $$
- The EuroPACS Association
The objective of the Association is to promote the exchange of information in the fields of research, user experience, implementation, assessment and audit of the benefit of the development and the use of digital systems for the acquisition, storage, transport, processing, display and reproduction of medical pictures (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems, PACS) and related technologies.
- Traveling in PACS
Author/editor: Fred D. Baldwin
Date: November 2003
Web-based systems make images accessible at multiple locations.
- Trying To Form A More Perfect Union
Author/editor: Greg Gillespie
Date: November 2003
Even with Internet technology and ‘brokerless’ integration, CIOs still struggle to wed radiology information systems and PACS. From the Health Data Management magazine.
- Virtual Radiologic Consultants
Virtual Radiologic delivers preliminary reports from U.S. Board-Certified Radiologists with the fastest turnarounds in the teleradiology industry, and works hard to satisfy the clients’ and patients’ needs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Wide Open MRI
Wide Open MRI is part of Med-Tel International Corporation, a global company based in McLean, Virginia, USA, and specializes in the use of teleradiology. In January 1999, Med-Tel opened its first international office in the UK and has 4 sites there and 13 in the US.
- "Augumented reality surgery" in prospect
Technology trend in the operating suite point to “an era of telesurgery” in which the surgeon works remotely from the patient.
- Assessment of the application of telemedicine in neurosurgery. Clinical benefit of telemedicine. Economic evaluation of telemedicine (TASTE International Project)
Author/editor: Cari Almazán, Pedro Gallo
Date: May 1999
To review the current knowledge on the clinical benefit of telemedicine, regarding these measures related to the process of care and to outcomes measures.
Adobe PDF
- Guidelines for the Surgical Practice of Telemedicine
Guidelines for clinical practice are intended to indicate preferable approaches to medical problems as established by experts in the field.
- Keeping one eye on the future of medicine
Anesthesiologists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center feel like they have X-ray vision thanks to a wearable computer system developed earlier this year that has improved patient safety and caught the attention of the Department of Defense.
- NASA researchers conduct underwater telemedicine test
Astronauts practice medical operations before heading into space.
- NASA- Undersea Habitat Becomes Experimental Hospital for NEEMO 7
Dr. Mehran Anvari, Director of the McMaster University Centre for Minimal Access Surgery at St. Joseph's Healthcare, NEEMO 7 will demonstrate and evaluate innovative technologies and procedures for remote surgery.
- Robo doc: Medicine by 'extension'
Robo doc may be the face of tomorrow's medicine. It's being tested in five hospitals across the nation by InTouch Health, a California-based heath-care technology firm, to see whether the doc-in-a-box can give quality care.
- Surgeons broadcast cinema vérité
Live Internet broadcasts of surgeries are beginning to make medicine more accessible to thousands of patients.
- Telemedicine and telesurgery in the operating room
Author/editor: Ronald C. Merrell, MD, FACS
Date: April 2005
Robotic telesurgery has caused surgeons to reflect on the technology. Adobe PDF
- UCLA Medical Center Becomes World’s First Hospital to Introduce Remote Presence Robots in ICU
The RP-6 robot will increase doctor access for patients, their families and hospital staff, and UCLA is excited to test the newest addition to the intensive care team.
- AVI: Association for Veterinary Informatics
The Association intends to communicate options and unbiased evaluations of existing technology and methods in the management and dissemination of veterinary information.
- Cardiopet
Cardiopet was formed to help veterinarians manage the many new developments
in cardiology. With ECGs as the cornerstone, a special telephone transmitter
was developed to instantly send the ECG for consultation with a cardiac
specialist.
- DarkHorse Telemedicine
Worldwide access to board certified veterinary specialists.
- RemoteVet
Telemedicine services for veterinarians.
- VDIC: Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging & Cytopathology
A group of radiologists and cytopathologists providing high-quality veterinary radiology, ultrasound, cytology and telemedicine consultation services.
- Veterinary hospital adds telemedicine, gets answers faster
A Wooster, Ohio veterinary clinic's experience with a new telemedicine system.
- Veterinary Specialist Network
A company founded by veterinarians, for veterinarians, dedicated to improving the overall quality of veterinary practice by facilitating contact between practicing veterinarians and veterinary specialists from a variety of disciplines for the purposes of information exchange, continuing education, and individual case consultation.
- 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
- Bridging the Service Gap Through Audiology Telepractice
Author/editor: Mark Krumm et al.
Date: June 2002
From the June 2002 ASHA Leader, including links to two other articles on using technology for treating stuttering, and for education and research.
- Development of a vascular assessment unit
Author/editor: Robin Cooper
Date: May 2004
Robin Cooper describes the development of a vascular assessment unit and the use of telemedicine at a primary care diagnostic and treatment centre.
- Electronic monitoring of patients in general wards
Author/editor: Kathy Davidson, Vicki Barber
Date: August 18, 2004
If set up by appropriately trained staff, electronic patient monitoring can aid patient care in general ward areas. Adobe PDF
- 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.
- Quantitative and Qualitative Usage Data of an Internet-based Asthma Monitoring Tool
Author/editor: Jacob Anhøj MD, Lene Nielsen
Date: June 2004
The Internet has been suggested as a tool for monitoring and for self-management of asthma.
- Survey of Telepractice Use Among Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists
Author/editor: none
Date: n/a
A report of a survey of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Members.
- Telehealth practice recommendations for diabetic retinopathy
Author/editor: ATA
Date: April 30, 2004
A roadmap of technical standards, guidelines and administrative procedures. Adobe PDF
- 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.
- 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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