Download or read book Telemedicine written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-10-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telemedicineâ€"the use of information and telecommunications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participantsâ€"is receiving increasing attention not only in remote areas where health care access is troublesome but also in urban and suburban locations. Yet the benefits and costs of this blend of medicine and digital technologies must be better demonstrated before today's cautious decision-makers invest significant funds in its development. Telemedicine presents a framework for evaluating patient care applications of telemedicine. 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. Telemedicine will be of immediate interest to anyone with interest in the clinical application of telemedicine.
Download or read book The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.
Download or read book Telehealth handbook written by Arthur M. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications for Health Professionals written by Myrna L. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armstrong (nursing, Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center) has collected the perspectives of 32 health care providers and professionals to address specific issues and provide creative solutions to the use of telecommunications in the delivery of health care directly at the location of need, regardless of geographical location or physical limitations. Following an overview, topics include the exploding field of multidisciplinary distance education, the use of telecommunications for streamlining direct client health care services via a Tele-Health system, and the ethical, legal and legislative concerns. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Philosophical Dimensions of Parapsychology written by James M. O. Wheatley and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1976 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health in the New Communications Age written by Maria Fernanda Laires and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the state of the art and trends in Health Care Telematics, the valuable results of the research and development work carried out by more than 50 projects during the AIM programme 1991-94. Project information regarding the dissemination and validation of the project results is elaborated and in the annex a full list of the participants in each project including contact details can be found. The second part of the book focuses on the shift of paradigm in the Health Care sector within the Information Society. This shift is characterised by a general turn from informatics towards multimedia telematics including the Health Care Telematics. The new Telematics Application Programme under the Fourth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development is user driven and focuses on the need for industry and users to collaborate and develop common solutions to secure validation and exploitation of the research results. The book gives an insight into the state of the art in a world wide context and helps the reader to understand the trends in Health Telematics. The target groups for reading the book are besides experts, researchers and industry in the area as well as decision makers and potential users of Health Telematics. Covered by Current Contents, Life Sciences (ISI), volume 39, no. 9, Februari 1996, p. 15-18 "The book gives insight into the state of the art in a worldwide context and helps the reader to understand current trends in European health telematics" Health Informatics Europe, volume 4, no. 1, March 1996, p. 14
Download or read book The Impact of Telemedicine on Health Care Management written by Michael Nerlich and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telemedicine Based Screening of Infantsat Risk for Retinopathy of Prematurity -- ByOPHTEL:A Bavarian Project for RapidTelemedical Exchange of Knowledge, Files and Skills between Practitionersand Hospitals in Eye Care -- Collaborative Telemedicine between Optometry and Ophthalmology: An Initiative from the University of Houston -- Dermatology -- Web-based Teledermatology Consult system: Preliminary results from the first 100 cases -- Are Dermatologists in Private Practice Interested in Teledermatological Services? -- Pathology -- European Field Tests with HISTKOM Telepathology Equipment -- Radiology -- Economic Analysis of Teleradiology Applications with KAMEDIN -- WWW-Based Access to Radiological Patient Data: Two Years of Experience -- Family Practice and Home Care/Home Monitoring -- Southern Health Board - Advanced Telematic / Telemedicine in Healthcare Services in the South West Of Ireland -- Remote Communities Services Telecentre Project -- HausTeleDienst"--A CATV-based Interactive Video Service for Elderly People -- Fonetix: Building Virtual Speech Therapy Practicum over the Internet -- Psychiatry -- Evaluation of a Canadian Telepsychiatry Service -- Telemedicine in Military -- Functional Characteristics of the Telemedical Network for the Medical Service of the Bundeswehr for Support of Operations Outside Germany and Civil-military Co-operation -- Webliography -- Suggested Telemedicine Websites -- Author Index
Download or read book Digital Medicine written by Darrell M. West and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical information online. Some physicians encourage patients to use email or web messaging to manage simple medical issues. Increasingly, health care products can be purchased electronically. Yet the promise of e-health remains largely unfulfilled. Digital Medicine investigates the factors limiting digital technology's ability to remake health care. It explores the political, social, and ethical challenges presented by online health care, as well as the impact that racial, ethnic, and other disparities are having on the e-health revolution. It examines the accessibility of health-related websites for different populations and asks how we can close access gaps and ensure the reliability and trustworthiness of the information presented online. Darrell West and Edward Miller use multiple sources, including original survey research and website analysis, to study the content, sponsorship status, and public usage of health care-related websites, as well as the relationship between e-health utilization and attitudes about health care in the United States. They also explore the use of health information technology in other countries. The result is an important contribution to our understanding of health information innovation in America and around the world.
Download or read book Telemedicine A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Academy Press presents the full-text of "Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care," which was originally published in 1996. The book highlights the use of telemedicine, which is the use of electronic information and communications technology to provide health care when distance separates the participants.
Download or read book Current Principles and Practices of Telemedicine and E health written by Rifat Latifi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the most current development on the expanding and changing field of telemedicine and e-health, especially in the developing countries. Many things have changed since the publication of the first book in 2004 (Establishing Telemedicine in Developing Countries: From Inception to Implementation). Telemedicine has become more popular, and still continues to grow. While there are many good books and materials on telemedicine, this publication can be seen at the work of reference for all of those who want to practice telemedicine and e-health, particularly in developing countries. This publication deals with ways to establish telemedicine and e-health system, not only in the developing countries, but also in the developed world. Hopefully, this book will be a guide that reflects the status of telemedicine at the given time. It is dedicated to all future generations of telemedicine and e-health students which include healthcare practitioners, administrators, policy makers, technical professionals and others.
Download or read book E Health Telehealth and Telemedicine written by Marlene Maheu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and and technical options.
Download or read book Telecommunication for Health Care 1982 written by J.H.U. Brown and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are relatively few references in this volume. This occurs for two reasons. In the first place, the Federal government has sponsored most of the communication experiments in health care and many of the results are buried in government reports. Some of these have been included. Secondly, although very large projects have been initiated and some may set a pattern for future health care, they have not attracted merited attention.
Download or read book The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment written by Board on Health Care Services and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.
Download or read book Telemedicine written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Health and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications written by Olla, Phillip and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book gives detailed analysis of the technology, applications and uses of mobile technologies in the healthcare sector by using case studies to highlight the successes and concerns of mobile health projects"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Telemedicine Explorations in the Use of Telecommunications in Health Care written by Rashid Bashshur and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telehealth written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
