Telemedicine

Telemedicine Links

• Interactive Videoconference Center Design Guide Provides tips and recommendations to locations that are installing videoconferencing. Describes room design and equipment that will permit conferencing with other locations, customers and vendors. Intended to promote standardization and based on accepted industry standards and experience with the installation of existing centers.
  
• TeleHome Care Federally funded project that utilizes low-cost commercially available videoconferencing, Internet and monitoring devices to enable the interaction between home care patients at their homes with health care providers at the clinical site.
  
• Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network Provides opportunity for specialty medical services to be offered to residents in all communities on the network.
  
• The Litmed Telemedicine Project A telemedicine co-operation project between Lithuania and Sweden.
  
• Arent Fox E-Health and Telemedicine Information on state, federal and global issues that impact ehealth and telemedicine.
  
• Telemedicine Can Reduce Correctional Healthcare Costs An evaluation of a prison telmedicine network. (Research Report)
  
• Telehealth Magazine Online magazine offers archives, news, and forums about the use of telecommunications, information systems, and computers for healthcare deliveries.
  
• Pacific Regional Program Office Pacific e-Health Innovation Center website for DoD Telemedicine in the Pacific Region.
  
• Telehealth: Extending an In-Person Group into Cyberspace Written by John Suler, Ph.D.
  
• Best Practices in Rural Medicine Series of four articles funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
  
• CERMUSA - Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas Promotes awareness of CERMUSA and the distance learning and telemedicine services it offers through the electronic community of the Internet.
  
• NASA Telemedicine Highlights NASA's activities in telemedicine and provides an overview of the inflight medical care systems that have been used to support astronauts during space flight over the past 40 years.
  
• Mobile Extranet Based Integrated User Services (Moebius) Integrated mobile healthcare solutions and disease management bring together the following aspects of telemedicine via mobile telephony: Diagnostic tools, therapeutic algorithms, treatment strategies and nursing. EU IST research project. Presented by the University Hosital Basel.
  
• TelehealthNet Job Center Complete online resource for posting job openings and resumes. Subscribe to our E-mail Notification Service to receive an instant e-mail of new jobs containing your keywords.
  
• Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas The web page is designed and regularly updated to promote awareness of CERMUSA and the Distance Learning and Telemedicine services it offers through the electronic community of the Internet.
  
• Telemedicine at Fletcher Allen Health Care Represents a model program for the electronic delivery of health care and medical education.
  
• Telemedicine Resources Listing of resources and services available on the World Wide Web.
  
• Home Health Care Services Extranet provides, communication, collaboration, teaching, and management applications for participants in home health care. Members use telemedical webstations to access personalized catalogs, services, and information. Customizable components include clinical, financial, and operational services.
  
• Galaxy: Telemedicine Directory of telemedicine sites.
  
• Internet Healthcare Coalition
  
• 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.
  
• Telemedicine Research Center Non-profit public service research organization whose mission is to promote telemedicine research and create, manage and disseminate information. Includes products and services, resources, company information and a site help section.
  
• Confidentiality of Individually-Identifiable Health Information Recommendations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, pursuant to section 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, September, 1997
  
• TelehealthNet Provider of telehealth and eHealth information for organizations, associations, professionals, vendors and those they serve. Daily newsfeeds, resource database, articles and interviews with project developers. Also includes bibliographies, discussion list and newsletter, worldwide organization and meeting guide, psychological journals, chat room and discussion board.
  
• Information for Tomorrow Telehealth-focused research services and publications for the informed healthcare and business professional, specializing in home telehealthcare, the delivery of patient care services that are transmitted to the home.
  
• IOS Press International STM publisher of books and journals in major scientific areas.
  
• Nemesis Telemedicine Academic application written in Java offering telecardiology over the Internet. Spanish and English.
  
• TeleInViVo 3D ultrasound telemedical workstation to be used in isolated areas. European Commission Telematics Technologies Programme Project #HC4021 (English)
  
• VetSound.com A veterinary tele-medicine consultation site offering diagnosis and treatment advice from veterinary specialists.
  
• Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Part of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. Dedicated to advancing the use of telehealth technologies to improve access to quality health care for the underserved.
  
• Telehealth Association of Ontario Promotes the development and application of telehealth as a means of improving health care in Ontario, Canada. Delivers health information and services through the use of information, technology and communication networks to and from distant locations.
  
• AccentCare Professional call center provides real-time assistance. Web-based information, resources and planning tools address the issues inherent in caring for an aging loved one.
  
• The Association of Telehealth Service Providers International membership-based organization dedicated to improving health care through growth of the telehealth, telemedicine and ehealth industries.
  
• Announcement of Research Initiative The Association of Telemedicine Service Providers is undertaking its second survey of forensic telemedicine.
  
• Federal Telemedicine Update Newsletter and information on ordering activities report on federal telemedicine activities.
  
• Delivering Behavioral Telehealth via the Internet: eHealth History, current status and future of eHealth, integration, behavioral eHealth, websites, hospitals and managed care organizations, traditional programs, informal online affiliations for professionals, legal and ethical concerns, legal remedies. Written by Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.
  
• news:sci.med.telemedicine Telemedicine newsgroup
  
• The Pacific e-Health Innovation Center Located at Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Established by the Department of Defense to carry out congressionally chartered e-Health Innovation Research and Development Prototyping Projects.
  
• Telemedicine Center Consulting group specializing in telehealth, strategic planning, training, distance learning and correctional telemedicine.
  
• WorldCare Health Malaysia About this teleconsultation services provider to the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor Flagship. Locations around Malaysia and in Korea. Provides e-health services for remote second opinion and treatment recommendations.
  
• Telehealth Issues for Nursing
  
• Directorate of Telemedicine at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Provides clinical telemedicine consultation support.
  
• Alaska Telemedicine Project Consortium of Alaska health care providers, telecommunications carriers, the University of Alaska Anchorage, and the State of Alaska. Developing telemedicine and telehealth applications and technologies designed to work and be sustained in Alaska.
  
• Interview with Liz Hopkins and Patty Luncent Concerning the partnership of Lucent Technologies with Johns Hopkins Hospital in telemedicine.
  
• HomeCare Online National Association for Home Care (NAHC).
  
• TMI Engineering, Inc. Commercial engineering company dedicated to the development and marketing of medical web-based telecommunication and computing systems for deploying distributed medical intelligence in communicating expert medical / rehabilitation knowledge.
  
• TeleHealth Victoria Australian public health initiative from The Victorian Healthcare Association(VHA) and Global TeleHealth. Provides links between consumers, participants and providers of services via telehealth. Also provides education, collective bargaining benefits and a central point of reference for matters that concern the telehealth community.
  
• Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance AHIMA, AMIA, CHIM, CHIME and HIMSS joined together to form the JHITA with the intent of pursuing a wide variety of objectives related to the common good of the Alliance membership.
  
• Legislative, Legal and Policy Issues in Telemedicine The telemedicine legal section includes a database of literature citations specific to legal issues and barriers to telemedicine, plus links to important legal telemedicine sites.
  
• Telemedicine Theory Theoretical discussion on telemedicine technology, future possibilities, health level 7, fuzzy logic, use of codes, use of smartcards in medical database management and cybersurgery.
  
• American Psychiatric Association Telepsychiatry Committee
  
• Canadian Society for Telehealth (CST) Canadian non-profit health association devoted to Telehealth
  
• TelehealthNet Resource Links Data Base Categories include: Application Service Providers, Articles, Audio Projects and Networks, Books, Consulting and Evaluation, Correctional Telemedicine, Education, Ethical Issues, Federal Agency and Government Programs (Including Funding), Glossaries, Hardware and Software, Health Education, HIPAA, Home Care, Internet Discussion, Legal Issues, Medical Records, Military Telemedicine, Organizations, Reports and Publications, Research, U.S. Government and Vendors
  
• VistaLink Medical Communications, Inc. Provider of second opinion consultations, patient transfers, continuing medical education, and global travel medicine services.
  
• Telemedicine Technologies Center Technology to enhance and advance medicine. Registered members may access download center, utilities, consultant advice and turn key solutions. English and French.
  
• Telehealth Professional Mail List Forum for the discussion of telehealth services and technologies.
  
• NLM National Telemedicine Initiative Information concerning 19 multi-year telemedicine projects.
  
• Center for Telemedicine/Telehealth General description of telemedicine and of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center telemedicine system.
  
• Center for Telemedicine Law and the American Telemedicine Association Non-profit entity offering information and analysis of legal and regulatory aspects of telemedicine.
  
• Euromed Networks AB Creating a global medical network together with the medical profession where the patient receives the most effective and highest quality treatment while the administration maintains the lowest cost and time efficiency.
  
• Health Care and the FCC Providing eligible rural health care providers with financial support for telecommunications services.
  
• Telemedicine Prognosis: Broadband Will Bring 100 Times More Revenue than Traditional Telemedicine Press Release from Insight Research Corp., a telecommunications market research provider.
  
• UK Telemedicine Association Covers all aspects of telemedicine, telecare and telehealth in the UK.
  
• TelePathology Consultants, PC A professional medical corporation that provides clinical, research and educational consultations in anatomic pathology and clinical pathology in the U.S.A. and abroad.
  
• College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Serving the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs, and advocating the more effective use of information management within healthcare.
  
• Center for Healthcare Information Management (CHIM) Trade association driving the adoption of strategic information management and technology in the health industry.
  
• Guide to Medical Informatics, the Internet and Telemedicine Written for healthcare professionals who wish to understand the principles of informatics, and the clinical applications of information and communication systems.
  
• International Society for Telemedicine The Society's goal is to promote the development of telemedicine, telecare and telehealth around the world. The Society acts as a forum for the exchange of information and ideas among all those interested in the telemedicine field.
  
• VA Telemedicine Projects by State Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Telemedicine Initiatives
  
• Center for Total Access Joint service organization dedicated to the digital transformation of military health care delivery. The CTA is organized into three business centers: Disease Management, Telemedicine and Theater Medicine
  
• Healthworks HealthworksTMS Corp is a Canadian company delivering telehealth technology and services.
  
• Telehealth: Professional Newsletter Subscriptions Free professional discussion lists offered by Pioneer Development Resources, Inc. Lists include E-health, Telehealth, TelehealthNews, Distance Learning, NetPsy, PsyFORUM, and PSYBUS.
  
• The 1999 ATSP Report on Telemedicine in the United States Joint effort between the Association of Telemedicine Providers and Telemedicine Today to collect data from active programs and use it to describe and analyze the state of the industry.
  
• Telemed tcp srl Services company. English and Italian
  
• Technology Opportunities Program Highly-competitive, merit-based grant program. Formerly known as the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program
  
• Telehealth 2001 Conference & Exposition The world's most essential telemedicine and e-health event that focuses on real life practices and solutions for improving the business of healthcare. Offers dates, information and a call for presenters.
  
• Telemedicine Telemedicine projects at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
  
• Telemedicine Information Exchange(TIE) A National Library of Medicine-funded web page which offers comprehensive information on telemedicine and telehealth.
  
• Oxford University Telepathology Research Dr Joel Leong guides you through the basics of telepathology and their approach and experiences with different techniques and systems.
  
• Telehealth Professional Newsletter One-way newsletter discussing all aspects of telehealth as it relates to mental health.
  
• MedWebPlus: Subject: Telemedicine
  
• Telemedicine Newsgroup, Compression and Teleconferencing Standards. Financial Reports Report released by the GAO to Congress outlining "the steps the federal government needs to take to realize the full potential of telemedicine."
  
• Northern Sierra Rural Health Network A non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of health and well-being of residents in Rural Northern California.
  
• AMA (Medical Science) Report 9 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (I-96) Reviews the issues related to physicians and on-site home health care.
  
• Illumea Corporation Develops Internet based remote inspection and image sharing solutions, mitigating internet collaboration in the life sciences, material sciences and semiconductor markets.
  
• Global Telehealth Provides services associated with technology enabled, health related, education, support or clinical service delivery at a distance.
  
• Missouri TeleRehabilitation Training Program Joint effort to promote access to appropriate behavioral health care in rural communities.
  
• Telemediana An educational forum for medical professionals disemminating information via satellite.
  
• TeleMed E-Zine From Feed-back.com An electronic magazine covering telemedicine, telehealth, and health care news.
  
• Therapy Over the Internet? Theory, Research and Finances Authored by J. Vicky Laszlo, MSW, Gail Esterman, MSW and Sherri Zabko, MA, MSW.
  
• UTMB Center for Telehealth and Distance Education From the University of Texas Medical Branch, provides leadership, planning, support and coordination for distance education and telehealth programs with a focus on strategic and policy issues.
  
• RUS - Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant and Loan Program created to encourage, improve, and make affordable the use of telecommunications, computer networks and related technology for rural communities to improve access to educational and/or medical services.
  
• Telemedicine Today Magazine providing information on telemedicine, tele-health, licensure, reimbursement, teleradiology and other telemedicine issues.
  
• American Telemedicine Association
  
• Telemedicine at the University of Virginia Information about the Virginia Department of Corrections Telemedicine Project, the Commonwealth of Virginia Telemedicine Network, and the Southwest Virginia Alliance for Telemedicine. Includes diagrams of our networks and our diagnostic-quality telemedicine stethoscope system.
  
• Telemedicine Conference (SLU) Information concerning the 6th International Conference on the Medical Aspects of Telemedicine. June 18-21, 2001
  
• Institute for Behavioral Healthcare A division of the Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior (IAHB), a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. IAHB is a fully accredited sponsor of continuing education and continuing medical education for mental health, chemical dependency and substance abuse treatment providers in the United States and Canada. IBH is the national center of excellence for behavioral healthcare industry education and leadership development.
  
• Medical Records Institute Promotes the development and acceptance of electronic health record system.
  
• Master of Medical Science Program Graduate program for physician assistants and other allied health professionals offered via distance learning.
  
• Finnish Society of Telemedicine
  
• MDvista A resource of health and treatment information.
  
• ATA Adopts Telehomecare Clinical Guidelines The Board of Directors of the American Telemedicine Association has adopted a set of clinical guidelines for the use of telemedicine for homecare. Approved guidelines include Patient Criteria, Health Provider Criteria and Technology Criteria.