Rural
Leach RJ et al, International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, 4(1)
The infrastructure needed in developing countries, especially in rural areas, often makes providing state-of-the-art healthcare cost prohibitive. We describe a highly asynchronous service model for healthcare delivery that is inexpensive, at least compared to the usual implementation of telemedicine, and involves technical service, public health, training and political aspects.
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23 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Developing Countries, Medical Informatics, Public Health, Rural, Telemedicine
Apiscam
“La Sociedad Española de Farmacia Rural (SEFAR) ha presentado los resultados del estudio piloto de Teledermatología llevado a cabo en cinco farmacias rurales desde el mes de octubre, destacando que el 63,6 por ciento de los usuarios estaría dispuesto a pagar por este servicio.
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30 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): pharmacist, Rural, Teledermatology, Telemedicine
Sachin Joshi, Business Standards
“If the country has the dubious distinction of having one doctor for every 15,000 people, low-cost telemedicine model Remote Healthcare Delivery Solutions is set to bridge the great Indian healthcare divide.
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21 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: India | Tag(s): Rural, Telemedicine
McCullough J et al, The Journal of Rural Health, 27(3)
PURPOSE
This study examines the current status of meaningful use of health information technology (IT) in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), other rural, and urban US hospitals, and it discusses the potential role of Medicare payment incentives and disincentives in encouraging CAHs and other rural hospitals to achieve meaningful use.
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13 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Hospitals, Meaningful Use, Rural
Parmeeth M.S. Atwal, Health IT Buzz Blog
“A physician since 1989, Dr. Karen Smith runs a one-physician family medicine practice in Raeford, NC. She credits her electronic health record (EHR) with allowing her to deliver quality care in a rural setting – and to do it so efficiently that she still has time to be a wife and mother.
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10 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Efficiency, Quality, Rural
Toni Brayer, Better Health
“Both in the United States and around the globe there is a mismatch between needed medical care and the doctors who can provide it. Most physicians are located in urban areas where there are hospitals, teaching schools, lab and Xray and specialists to deal with most every medical condition. Rural areas in the United States lack these resources and patients either do without, or must travel far to be seen. In developing countries there may be no services at all for hundreds of miles. That is where telehealth can play a huge role in bringing medicine to the people.
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1 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Robot, Rural, Telemedicine
Barton C et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2011
Objective:
Telemedicine is increasingly being used to provide consultation for healthcare in rural areas. Little work has been done with dementia although preliminary research suggests that clinical diagnosis performed via telemedicine consultation is valid. We implemented a program to provide multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art diagnosis of cognitive impairment by video-telemedicine (VTM) integrated into a clinical setting.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Dementia, Rural, Telemedicine, Videoconsultations
Warren JC et al, Health and Technology, 2011
The importance of telehealth strategies in addressing the health needs of rural residents has been well documented. A core problem in enacting telehealth strategies for patient education in rural settings, however, is a lasting perception that rural residents do not have access to, comfort with, or willingness to use varying emerging technologies. The current study was undertaken to simultaneously investigate access to technologies, comfort with technologies, and willingness to participate in technology-based interventions among high-need rural clinical populations. A sample of 199 patients was recruited at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in the rural South using convenience sampling. Participants completed a battery of assessments addressing technology access, use, and comfort as well as likelihood of participating in intervention modalities.
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24 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, Disease Management, Rural, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Federal HIT policymakers have dedicated themselves to moving the healthcare sector away from paper and into the digital future.
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18 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Rural, Telemedicine, Underserved
Cripps H, Standing C. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Objective
The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the health sector has often lagged behind adoption in other sectors as there are a number of systemic inhibitors that make the adoption of ICT far more complex. This paper aims to explore and investigate the drivers, facilitators and barriers to electronic health records adoption in the health sector and provide some guidance on how to improve the prospect of successful adoption.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): ICT, Implementation, Rural
Executive Insight
“Critical access hospitals (CAHs) and rural community hospitals fill vital healthcare needs for the nation’s rural areas. However, they often lack the financial resources needed to fund large-scale information technology projects – such as the adoption of an electronic health record (EHR) system.
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4 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, Rural
PressTV
“Studies show that virtual stroke care or Telestroke may help providing treatment and recovery for stroke sufferers who are admitted to rural hospitals.
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19 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, Rural, Stroke, Telemedicine, Virtual
John Cushman, The Paper Chase
“As someone who gets to see the transition of the medical industry into the 21st century through EMR conversions, I get to thinking frequently about all the ways these conversions affect the rural healthcare community. Also, seeing how the communities they serve are impacted makes me think even more.
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16 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Community, Rural, Secondary Data Use
Emily Singer, Technology Review
“There aren’t too many doctors in the village of Hari Ke Kalan, in the Punjab region of northern India. But for $1, residents who bicycle to a new health clinic can get an appointment with a physician appearing on a large-screen television and beamed in over broadband Internet.
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16 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: India | Tag(s): Rural, Telemedicine
Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic
“Rural hospitals that do not employ a full-time neurologist or stroke expert can use telemedicine in a cost-effective way to care for patients who suffer strokes, a new study reports.
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15 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Benefits, Rural, Stroke, Telemedicine
ScienceDaily
“In a first of its kind study, researchers have found that using two way audio-video telemedicine to deliver stroke care, also known as telestroke, appears to be cost-effective for rural hospitals that don’t have an around-the-clock neurologist, or stroke expert, on staff.
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15 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Benefits, Hospitals, Rural, Stroke, Telemedicine
Nelson RE et al, Neurology, 2011
Objective:
To conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of telestroke—a 2-way, audiovisual technology that links stroke specialists to remote emergency department physicians and their stroke patients—compared to usual care (i.e., remote emergency departments without telestroke consultation or stroke experts).
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15 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Benefits, Costs, Rural, Stroke, Telemedicine
Fraser Coast Chronicle
“Ground breaking telemedical technology in use at Hervey Bay hospital has led to a drop in patient transfers to Brisbane.
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12 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | Tag(s): Children, Rural, Telemedicine
Finkelstein SM et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(6)
We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the perception, satisfaction and utilization of a home telehealth service for frail elderly people living independently in their home communities. Control group subjects continued with their usual care and intervention group subjects were able to supplement their usual care with the use of a web portal. The web portal allowed videoconferencing and electronic messaging between home care nurses and clients, ordering health-related and home care services, access to health-related information and general access to the Internet. A total of 99 eligible people (59 female, 40 male) from one urban and one rural study site agreed to participate in the study. Eighty-four subjects were active participants for nine months.
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3 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Homecare, Elderly, Messaging, Portal, Rural, Satisfaction, Telemedicine, Urban, Videoconferencing
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture have signed a memorandum of understanding linking rural hospitals and clinicians to capital loan programs to help them purchase software and hardware needed to implement health IT.
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25 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Rural, Telemedicine
