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This resource is updated from time to time, as a contribution by John Mitchell and Associates to the global development of telehealth. If you would like to add a link to your own site, or contribute a link you know of to this list, please contact us by email. Contents
John Mitchell and Associates' National Report on Telemedicine in Australia "Fragmentation to Integration" (PDF file). Adobe Acrobat is required to read PDF files. Many newer computers have this free software already installed. If you do not have a copy, please click here to download.
WAMI Rural Telemedicine Network. The Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho Rural Telemedicine Networks. The network is a three year demonstration project funded through September, 1997 by the Office of Rural Health Policy. The purpose of the project is to explore the utility of telemedicine consultation by a tertiary care medical school facility to the clinicians and patients of four remote towns in the Northwest. Contains project information and up to date newsletters. Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network. The Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network (UPTN) was established with federal funds from the Office of Rural Health Policy and the Rural Utilities Services. These funds provided equipment to rural Upper Michigan hospitals and clinics for distance learning, teleradiology and other telehealth applications. Canadian Initiatives on Networking Clearing House(CINCH) - Telehealth. The national clearing house of information on Canadian networking initiatives and Canada's contribution to the G7 Global Inventory Project (GIP), provides extensive information on telehealth. National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine. The University of Iowa's Telemedicine Resource Center (TRC) is the administrative entity that oversees and coordinates the National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine. The TRC was established in 1994 as a result of a previous award from the National Library of Medicine. KU Medical Center.The University of Kansas Medical Center Telemedicine program is dedicated to providing access to educational and clinical services to persons throughout the state of Kansas.
Telehealth - Bringing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to Rural Communities. This RHSET funded project aims to establish, conduct and evaluate a telehealth trial for the provision of consultation, training and support services in relation to child and adolescent mental health, to mental health, health and other professionals, in rural and remote areas of South Australia and Northern Territory. This project is being evaluated by John Mitchell & Associates. OSU Telemedicine Centre Homepage. The homepage of the Okalahoma State College of Telemedicine which is designed and operated for the education and training of practicing physicians, medical students and other health care professionals. Includes course information and archive of health policy research publications. East Carolina University School of Medicine Telemedicine. Describes history of telemedicine and three current grant projects in telemedicine, including an investigation of policies and standards for reimbursement. SeaHawk: A telemedicine project in the Pacific Northwest. An article describing a pilot project using the MediaStation 5000s to link the Madigan Army Medical Center to various military and other federal hospitals and clinics. NLM National Telemedicine Initiative evaluates the use of telemedicine in a wide variety of settings. Summaries for these projects and links to their web sites are available. "TIM-TEM", 1997-1998. A telemedicine project on a Greek island.The aim of this project is to improve the care of people living on islands and to create a model exportable in other rural areas. Health Communication Network: Over the last few years the Australian government as part of the development of the Health Communication Network has commissioned a range of demonstration projects to assess the benefits and uses of the network. These projects demonstrate just some of the possible applications for health communications. Best of Telemedicine Today An excellent site offering access to informative articles from Ace Allen's journal "Telemedicine Today".
Telemedicine and Telerehabilitation Telerehabilitation is the delivery of rehabilitation-related education and services via telecommunications technology. Since 1995, Shepherd Center has been researching and developing effective and efficient ways to use telecommunications technology to deliver services to patients. View their current research projects. CardioDynamics International Announces First Phase of Internet Medical Product Development; Company Addressing Demand for Internet-Based Home Telemonitoring Systems CardioDynamics International Corp. (Nasdaq:CDIC), manufacturer of BioZ(R) noninvasive digital cardiac output monitoring systems, announced today (11 January, 2000) the launch of the first phase of its Internet medical product development strategy.
"From telehealth to e-health: the unstoppable rise of e-health". New E-health Report for Australian Commonwealth Government prepared by John Mitchell and Associates. Free Lunch American Medical News reports "Most companies don't hide the fact that they want something in return from physicians for taking the free stuff, whether it's their eyeballs for advertising or their personal data for marketing purposes. Health Online: A Health Information Action Plan for Australia Health Online: A Health Information Action Plan for Australia is a national plan of action for information management in the health sector over the next five years. It promotes new ways of delivering health services, by harnessing the enormous potential of new technologies. E-Health Europe - Conference and Exposition 9-11 April 2000, Netherlands
Radiology Network Project The South Australian Health Commission (SAHC) has provided funding for the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH) for a teleradiology trial at the WCH, as a ‘proof of concept’ project, from February 1997 – February 1998. WCH is committed to undertaking this teleradiology research for the benefit of the whole of the health system in South Australia. National Library of Medicine Teleradiology Project. Funded by a grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the project uses the Iowa Communication Network (ICN) to provide medical professionals with advanced image processing and visualization tools. The project is also developing a clinical workstation, software to integrate image diagnostic capabilities and image analysis tools as well as developing multimedia tutorials to provide education to physicians on image analysis. Links to other Teaching Files:- The University of North Carolina Department of Radiology Teaching File. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital.Each case provides an area for visitors to contribute peer commentary. St. Paul's Hospital Department of Radiology. The Virtual Hospital The Virtual Hospital (VH) is a project of the Electric Differential Multimedia Laboratory, University of Iowa College of Medicine.It provides invaluable patient care support and distance learning to practicing physicians and other healthcare professionals. Telemedicine and its applications. This site created by Laleh S. Khensari, PhD, who considers teleradiology to be one of the most common applications of telemedicine. Follow the links for further information.
Womens and Children's Hospital in Adelaide South Australia. The bottom of this page also provides access to a comprehensive set of telehealth links. Telehealth Technology Research Institute(TTRI) at the University of Alberta. Research and development is the core business for the Telehealth Technology Research Institute NLM National Telemedicine Initiative. In 1996 NLM announced the funding of 19 telemedicine projects (2 additional projects were added in 1997). The projects funded affect rural, inner-city, and suburban areas. They evaluate the use of telemedicine in a wide variety of settings. Summaries of these projects and links to their websites are available. Australian New Zealand Telehealth Committee One aim of the Australian New Zealand Telehealth Committee is to promote the dissemination and sharing of knowledge and experience on telehealth as well as promote debate and discussion. British Columbia Telehealth Initiative. "A vision for the 21st century".The British Columbia Ministry of Health, Ministry of Employment and Investment and the Information, Science and Technology Agency are collaborating to define a "Telehealth" initiative to help direct activities related to the commercialization and implementation of telehealth applications in British Columbia and to develop a provincial Telehealth strategy. FEST Framework for European Services in Telemedicine. A European Community project designed to support different types of individuals interested in establishing and operating a Telemedicine service. Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT). National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine. University of Iowa.Telemedicine is not a panacea for all the challenges facing rural patients and community health care providers. But it is anticipated that the data coming from existing telemedicine programs will help improve the delivery of health care services by allowing community health providers and their patients local access to specialty consults, information services, and continuing education opportunities. Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT). 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’s underserved people. Mid West Rural Telemedicine Consortium. The MRTC is the largest telemedicine program in Iowa, and one of the largest in the U.S.The Consortium was established as a joint development program of Mercy Hospital Medical Center and North Iowa Mercy Health Center and has been in operation since August 1995. Texas Medical Centre: Telemedicine Projects and Resources . Its mission is to improve health care by facilitating the exchange of health care information and contributing to the development of a medical information infrastructure (MII) that supports this exchange. UTMB Teletraining Institute. The UTMB Teletraining Institute provides the means and environment for administrators, educators, executives, technologists, students and medical practitioners to investigate and learn the elements of telemedicine. The University of Virginia Health Sciences Center - Office of Telemedicine. The Association of Telemedicine Service Providers.The ATSP was created to meet the information, management, and policy needs of health care providers that are, or expect to be, providers of telemedicine services. New South W ales Telehealth Initiatives: Newsletter. Archived issues of the newsletter and press releases available. Telemedicine Group, Inc. TheVirtual Housecall program at TGI is composed of a dedicated group of professionals who have come together with the mission of providing realtime, online access to confidential medical advice and Urgent Medical Care to patients on the Internet. When the circumstances warrant, the TGI Virtual Housecall program enables initiation of immediate medical care for patients, with the expectation they will subsequently seek appropriate medical follow-up with another physician in an office or hospital-based setting.
CHIC - Collaborative Health Informatics Centre CHIC Ltd is a national, not-for-profit company whose focus is to facilitate improvements in business processes and patient care in the Australian health sector through the application of appropriate information technologies. The Future of the Internet in Healthcare: A Five Year Forecast. This article by Mary Cain and Robert Mittman, sorts through the current hype to give a realistic assessment of the pace and direction of change for the next five years. Medical College of Georgia. A teaching hospital with innovative programs in distance learning and use of the information superhighway. The Virtual Hospital at the University of Iowa. Contains information for patients, physicians and students, including multimedia textbooks and tutorials. The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Healthcare. 1997. R.S. Dick, E.B. Steen, D.E. Detmer, Editors.The authors of the commentaries are distinguished leaders in the field of medical informatics and are particularly well known for their work on CPRs. TeleSCAN : Telematics Services in Cancer. In the same light as the virtual hospital, a comprehensive set of resources on cancer diagnosis and treatment for patients and physicians. Telemedicine Information Exchange. A navigation tool for global telemedicine information. Consumer Health Informatics: Emerging Issues. Consumer health informatics is the union of health care content with the speed and ease of technology. The Health Law Resource by William L. Manning.This valuable resource includes a link to Telemedicine & Health Care Informatics Legal Issues. American Medical Informatics Association "Advancing Health Care Through Information Technology". The Informatics Review."The Informatics Review is an electronic newsletter designed to allow busy medical and information system professionals interested in the latest academic developments in the field of clinical informatics and computing to stay abreast of this rapidly evolving field" - Dean Sittig. HealthCare Review Online™ "Dedicated to reviewing and interpreting significant developments in healthcare delivery".
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. The Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare will be published four times a year by the Royal Society of Medicine. Telemedicine Today [Editor: Ace Allen, MD.] Current and past issues available.(with Table of Contents for each issue since September 1995.) This site also features On-line lectures on telehealth issues by Dr. Ace Allen.
Reid, J. (1997). A Telemedicine Primer: Understanding the Issues. Innovative Medical Communications. A book covering a range of issues related to establishing a telemedicine project. Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Healthcare. 1996. Marilyn J. Field, Editor; Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine, Institute of Medicine.The book identifies managerial, technical, policy, legal, and human factors that must be taken into account in evaluating a telemedicine program. The committee reviews previous efforts to establish evaluation frameworks and reports on results from several completed studies of image transmission, consulting from remote locations, and other telemedicine programs. The committee also examines basic elements of an evaluation and considers relevant issues of quality, accessibility, and cost of health care. MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching by Brian S. Katcher, Pharm.D. Any health professional, health sciences student, or researcher will benefit from reading this book. It explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), provides guidance for framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples.
"From telehealth to e-health: the unstoppable rise of e-health". New E-health Report for Australian Commonwealth Government prepared by John Mitchell and Associates. "The Telemedicine Industry in Australia: From Fragmentation to Integration". Report prepared by John Mitchell and Associates for the Australian Commonwealth Government. Released July 3, 1998.(PDF file). Adobe Acrobat is required to read PDF files. Many newer computers have this free software already installed. If you do not have a copy, please click here to download. User Adoption Issues in Renal Telemedicine. An article published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1996, pp.81-86 Authors Benjamin Mitchell, John Mitchell, Dr Alex Disney. Best Practice in Telemedicine. An evaluation of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Renal Dialysis Telemedicine Project 1995-1996. Written by John Mitchell, Managing Director, John Mitchell & Associates, October 1996. Telemedicine use growing, but slowly. The number of doctors and hospitals delivering care via telemedicine is likely to stay small until reimbursement issues and other obstacles are addressed. Article from AMNews.com, July 31 2001. The Future of the Internet in Healthcare: A Five-Year Forecast Why is the use of the Internet in health care growing so quickly? How sustainable is that growth? What kinds of health-related applications will develop over the next five years? How will the Internet affect health care delivery and health outcomes? In all the excitement about the Internet, there inevitably will be unrealistic expectations about its impact on the health care industry. This forecast sorts through the current hype to give a realistic assessment of the pace and direction of change for the next five years. Telemedicine in the Pacific. Medical practitioners in the Pacific often operate in relative isolation, dealing with diverse health care needs, many of which arise infrequently because of the small populations served. Experience of, and Hopes for, Telehealth in Tokelau. Two key factors affect health care in Tokelau are its small population and its great isolation. Both of these make telehealth a critical issue for the development of health services and it is hard to see how the services can develop to a modern standard without a larger component of telemedicine. Telehealth in Canada: Clinical Networking, Eliminating Distances The challenge for Canada is to merge one of the world’s best health systems with an infrastructure that remains at the cutting edge of innovation. "Canada strives to be most wired country" (March 1999) This initiative ensures that the country can act as the test-bed for online applications, including "tele-learning" and "tele-health". Outcomes of the Kaiser Permanente Tele-Home Health Research Project. Design: Quasiexperimental study conducted from May 1996 to October 1997. Objective: 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. Profile of Users of Real-Time Interactive Teleconference Clinical Consultations. Design: Descriptive study, February 1, 1996, through April 30, 1999. Objective: To assess characteristics of participants of interactive teleconference clinical consultations. Electronic Patient-Physician Communication: Problems and Promise. Article in Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 September 1998, by Mandl, Kohane and Brandt. "Unless ... technologies are implemented with substantial forethought, they may disturb delicate balances in the patient-physician relationship, widen social disparities in health outcomes, and create barriers to access to health care." Telemedicine: Where It Is and Where It's Going in Annals of Internal Medicine. 15 July 1998, by Jim Grigsby, PhD, and Jay H. Sanders, MD. Telemedicine Gets a Chance to Prove Itself, in Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 December 1997. M. Larkin. Optimising Benefits by Using Integrated Telemedicine for Clinical, Educational and Administrative Purposes. A paper presented to the ITU's World Telemedicine Symposium for Developing Countries, Portugal, 30 June-4 July, 1997. Establishing Renal Clinical Telemedicine An evaluation of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Renal Dialysis Telemedicine Project 1994-1995. Executive Summary, Ch.1. Description of Project Management: issues and framework for our project management. Ch.6. Users and Uses: an in-depth description of the range of uses that many of the key renal staff make of the telemedicine technology. Two Leading Edge Telemedicine Projects: Lessons Learnt. A paper presented by John Mitchell at the Australasian Teleconferencing Association Conference, October 1995. The Challenge to Embed Telepsychiatry An evaluation of the non-clinical aspects of the South Australian Mental Health Services Telemedicine Project, June - October 1994. Written by John Mitchell, Managing Director, John Mitchell & Associates. Executive Summary and Chapter 1: Project Brief and Methodology New methods of providing healthcare: The Health Telematics Unit. Based on information provided by Dr. Penny Jennett, Health Telematics Unit, Faculty of Medicine.The study provides new knowledge and demonstrates the success of the technology in this project. CDRH Telemedicine Related Activities. The appended report describes telemedicine-related activities of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA. It also details a variety of Center initiatives being undertaken to clarify and improve Center operations in this area. Status Report on Telemedicine: Report of the Council On Medical Service. This report, which is presented for the information of the House, provides an update on the use of telemedicine by hospitals and other institutional delivery systems, describes current medical specialty society activities in telemedicine, and presents the major areas of federal legislative or regulatory activity with respect to telemedicine. (CMS Report 8-1-97) Health-Care On-Ramps: A Road map to Western States' Information Highways. April 1998.This report was undertaken to develop the background information necessary to bridge the telecommunications infrastructure barrier to telemedicine. To accomplish this, telecommunications and rural health leadership in WGA states were surveyed and the information compiled. Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications in Healthcare. Executive Summary.. The purpose of evaluation-and the purpose of this report-is not to endorse telemedicine but to endorse the development and use of good information for decisionmaking. The evaluation framework presented here is offered in that spirit. Medicare Program; Payment for Teleconsultations in Rural Health Professional Shortage Areas The Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA) published proposed regulations on the new rural health care reimbursement program on June 22, 1998. Medicaid and Telemedicine. The Health Care Financing Administration has not formally defined telemedicine for the Medicaid program, and Federal Medicaid law does not recognize telemedicine as a distinct service. Nevertheless, Medicaid reimbursement for services furnished through telemedicine applications is available, at the State's option, as a cost-effective alternative to the more traditional ways of providing medical care (e.g., face-to-face consultations or examinations). Telemedicine: New tools, not new medicine. LOG ON, November 11, 1996 Automation trends in medicine by Greg Borzo, American Medical News. Connecting the Nation: Classrooms, Libraries, and Health Care Organizations in the Information Age: Update 1995 prepared by National Telecommunications and Information Administration Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications. Kim, Donglok; Cabral, James E.; Kim, Yongtmin. Networking requirements and the role of multimedia systems in telemedicine Seattle, WA: University of Washington Image Computing Systems Laboratory. Transmission of Olfactory Information for Telemedicine.This paper was presented at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality III, January 1995 and was published in Interactive Technology and the New Paradigm for Healthcare, K. Morgan and others (Ed.s), IOS Press and Ohmsha, Amsterdam, 1995, chapter 27, pp. 168-172. . In this paper, a chemical sensing system (electronic nose) is presented along with a proposed method for regenerating the transmitted olfactory information. Telemedicine and the Law developed by Arent Fox. Telemedicine Report to Congress. January 31, 1997. A report on the use of advanced telecommunications services for medical purposes, that also examines questions relating to efficacy,safety and quality of services, together with other legal, medical and economic issues. Telehealth Services Newsletter.Volume 1, Issue 1,July 1997. A newsletter providing information on telehealth services at The Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia. John Mitchell & Associates is Project Manager of the WCH Telehealth Project. "A Prescription for Telemedicine" by Kristen Philipkoski in' Wired News' reports on a new health-care site that is trying to differentiate itself from many of its competitors. "Jedmed, W2Com promote telemedicine" by Donna Claire in St Louis Business Journal, July 12, 1999. Companies such as W2Com and Jedmed Instrument Co. are working to expand the use of telemedicine locally. 'Technology puts help on the line: phone wires now transmit more than just doctor's advice.' Press article by Dan Emerson in "American City Business Journals Minneapolis/St. Paul", December 20, 1999.
Telemedicine Information Exchange.The most comprehensive and complete database on telemedicine projects, legislation, issues, equipment and vendors. Provided by the Telemedicine Research Center, in Portland, Oregon. Telehealth - Issues for Nursing The American Nurses Association (ANA) is committed to the use of telemedicine/telehealth in a manner that enhances access to quality, affordable health care services. Telemedicine Web Sites Provided by the Medical College of Georgia. A selection of links to telemedicine-related resources and information which is becoming redundant thanks to the Telemedicine Information Exchange. Jim Cabral's Telemedicine Resources. An excellent overview of the technical issues surrounding medical networks Arent Fox Telemedicine Page. Information on the legal issues surrounding health information systems, computerized decision support technologies and telemedicine. Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Rouen Informatique Hospitali²re & de Sant³ ET en T³l³matique de Sant³ & T³l³m³decine. Marshall University RuralNet Telemedicine Resources. Provides links to a Gopher with a wide range of information on world-wide projects in text format from 1994.
Conference Update ATA 2002. The American Telemedicine Association's 7th annual meeting and exposition. June 2-5, 2002, Los Angeles Convention Center, California USA.
UWGSP9 Telemedicine Project. A series of projects using the Media Station 5000, a multimedia telemedicine system designed by the University of Washington. Card Guard A company which develops and produces scalable multifunctional transtelephonic monitoring systems.
The Royal Society of Medicine - Telemedicine Forum. The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is an independent, apolitical organisation with a telemedicine forum for discussion and the exchange of ideas and techniques. The American Telemedicine Association The ATA promotes professional, ethical and equitable improvement in health care delivery through the application of telecommunications technology. Association of Telemedicine Service Providers.The ATSP was created to meet the information, management, and policy needs of health care providers that are, or expect to be, providers of telemedicine services. Canadian Society of Telehealth. The first Canadian non-profit health association devoted to telehealth. |
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