TeleMedicine & TeleHealth

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Resources

"This conference is one of the most important in the world of Telemedicine Calendar. This is especially so since it will focus on Telemedicine users and their expectations and experiences."

Internet Sites:

Federal Telemedicine Gateway The Federal Telemedicine Gateway was developed by the JWGT, a collaboration of Federal agencies that are engaged in telemedicine activities. Development was funded by the Department of Defense (DoD).
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth [new fdereal agency] OAT is a leader in telemedicine/telehealth demonstrations, evaluations and "best practices." The Department of Health and Human Services ... created OAT to promote the wider adoption of effective telecommunications and information technologies in providing health care services to the nation
Community Health and Emergency Medical Services [chem Alaska] Staff support community-based telemedicine projects and initiatives by working closely with other agencies, by helping to coordinate telehealth efforts, by providing information to community representatives, by assisting with research and evaluation of telehealth projects in Alaska, and by helping to increase community awareness of funding sources.
Telemedicine Research Center (Information Exchange)
TeleMed-E-Zine Archives
About Telemedicine: Definitions and Descriptions
UW Rural Tele-Medicine (Family Medicine / WWAMI Rural Telemedicine Network)
- Town & Country: From the Alaskan Bush to the Idaho Foothills, the UW Trains Doctors in the Rural Northwest--and Many Decide to Stay. Columns (UW Alumni), Sept. 1998, by Lelia Gray "While WWAMI is known for training rural physicians, a lot of people don't realize the amount of professional support the UW medical school continues to give to practicing health professionals in small medical communities like ours, or to much smaller ones with only one doctor..."
Telemedicine Project in UW Electrical Engineering Department (Prof.Kim)
- Telemedicine Project in University of Washington Electrical Engineering Department.
- MediaStation 5000: A Multimedia Workstation for Telemedicine
- Telemedicine Resources
The Virtual Hospital
SatelLife is an international not-for-profit organization employing satellite, telephone and radio networking technology to serve the health communication and information needs of countries in the developing world.
- The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)
- Information Services
Senator Murray's TeleHealth site
Telemedicine & the Law. (Arent Fox)
.. deals with the legal issues surrounding health information systems, computerized decision support technologies and telemedicine. Arent Fox lawyers are advisors in technology and information law in Washington, D.C.
American Medical Informatics Association ["Advancing Health Care Through Information Technology"]
- The Emergence of 'Internetable' Health Care Systems That Really Work Conference, October 25-29, 1997 (Nashville)
  - Sanders: 'Internetable' Telemedicine Plenary Session. "Despite dramatic advances in our knowledge of how to treat the medical conditions of our population, multiple studies have documented that geographic and socio-economic isolation have disenfranchised millions of people from the health care services they require. Telemedicine, which uses telecommunication and information technologies to provide a patient or primary care practitioner access to a consultant at a distant site, is one approach to solving this problem...."
Telekonsultationssystem zu akuten Gesundheitsrisiken in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern "Ziel des Projektes ist die Entwicklung eines Telekonsultationssytems, mit dessen Hilfe Ärzte und Verantwortliche in medizinischen Einrichtungen Informationen zur aktuellen Gesundheitssituation und zu akuten Gesundheitsrisiken in einer Region interaktiv abfragen können."

Literature:

Telehealth Magazine

Telemedicine Today Magazine

AMA. American Medical News, vol.39(42), Nov.11, 1996. Article on Telemedicine. Reference to "Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications in Health Care" (=Report released "last month" by the Institute of Medicine)

Armstrong, Myrna L, editor. Telecommunications for health professionals : providing successful distance education and telehealth. New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., 1998. xxvii, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Telecommunication-in-medicine. Education-Medical. Telecommunications. Teaching -- methods. [Health Sciences Book Stacks W 18 T267 1998]

Burdick, Anne E., et al. "Telemedicine: Caring for Patients across Boundaries," Ostomy/Wound Management Vol.42(9), October 1996, 26-37.

Capalbo, Susan M., Innovations in the Delivery of Health Care Services to Rural Communities: Telemedicine and Limited-Service Hospitals Rural America, 14(3), Oct. 1999

Over the last decade, changes in health care policy, demographics, and technology have presented new opportunities for delivering medical care in rural areas. Telemedicine and limited-service hospitals are two innovations currently used to strengthen the likelihood of continued health care in rural communities.

Chaffee, Mary, A Telehealth Odyssey, American Journal of Nursing, 99(7), July 1999, pp.27-32.

Granade, Phyllis F., "The Brave New World of Telemedicine," RN, July 1997, pp.59ff. [addresses care across state lines and consent procedures, etc.]

Kassam-Adams, S., Applegate, L.M., et al., "Telemedicine and Health Information Networks: Converging Technologies and Diverging Views," multi-media paper presented at the Multi-Media and the Boundaryless World Colloquium, November 1995

Rockville, M.D. "Exploratory Evaluation of Rural Applications of Telemedicine," Office of Rural Health Policy, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Feb. 1997.

Sanders, Jay. Telemedicine: Theory and Practice (author is present of the American Telemedicine Association).

Scannell, Kristine. Telemedicine : past, present, future : 1966-1995 (March): 1634 citations / prepared by Kristine M Scannell, Douglas Perednia, Henry M. Kissman. Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Reference Section ; [Pittsburgh, PA : G.P.O., distributor], 1995. Telecommunication-in-medicine -- Bibliography. Telemedicine -- bibliography. Telecommunications -- bibliography. Health Sciences Reference Serials ZW 1 N272 no.95-4.

Telemedicine Research Center, Portland OR, "What is Telemedicine?" 1997.

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