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“Der Schweizerische Apothekerverband pharmaSuisse, das Schweizer Zentrum für Telemedizin MEDGATE und der Kranken- und Unfallversicherer Helsana starten ein Pilotprojekt mit einem zukunftsweisenden Versorgungsmodell. Unter dem Namen netCare werden ab April 2012 rund 200 Apotheken ihre Leistungspalette mit neuartigen telemedizinischen Leistungen ergänzen.
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“Lancée par deux professionnels de santé expérimentés (un médecin généraliste ancien régulateur du centre 15 et un directeur d’Établissements Sanitaires et Médicaux Sociaux), FRANCE MEDECIN est reconnue comme entreprise innovante par Oséo.
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Henry Kenyon, GCN
“A new pilot program will allow veterans in the Midwest to access behavioral health, oncology and post-operative care services wherever they have Web access. Using telehealth technology — a combination of streaming video, e-mail and text applications — the system is designed to help veterans in geographically remote areas or with mobility issues to conveniently contact clinicians and support services.
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Salil Garg, Mudit Mathur, Express Healthcare
“Cyberspace is a fast-changing, globally-networked, multicultural, and multilingual information environment with vast possibilities. It calls into question, national and international borders, cultural and ethical standards, regulations, and laws, which it bypasses and challenges.
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Garrett CC et al, BMC Infectious Diseases, 11(1)
BACKGROUND:
Young people are disproportionately affected by sexually transmissible infections in Australia but face barriers to accessing sexual health services, including concerns over confidentiality and, for some, geographic remoteness. A possible innovation to increase access to services is the use of telemedicine.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“An abstract presented Friday to the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Boston, titled “Disproportionately Increasing Psychiatric Visits to the Pediatric Emergency Deparment Among the Uninsured”, notes that pediatric patients are increasingly receiving psychiatric care in hospital EDs. Telemedicine might be important in this setting, but first let me tell you more about the abstract.
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Gordon J. The Nursing Clinics of North America, 46(3)
Patients using the Internet are inundated with abundant information on health care that may be correct and may be incorrect. It is becoming the role of clinicians to enable patients to educate themselves by providing information about accurate and reliable Web sites, and to answer questions from literature that patients encounter.
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Manal Ismail, The National
“A new centre in Dubai will allow patients to receive a “virtual consultation” from experts around the world.
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Leonard Witkamp, Ksyos
“Vandaag passeert KSYOS de grens van 75.000 TeleConsulten. De meest toegepaste en best bestudeerde vorm van TeleConsultatie is TeleDermatologie. KSYOS TeleMedisch Centrum monitort van meet af aan prestatie indicatoren, rapporteert deze naar zorgverzekeraars, zorggroepen en zorginstellingen en stelt deze beschikbaar voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
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Deldar K eta al, J Telemed Telecare, 2011
We evaluated an ask-the-doctor service which was set up as one of the accessory services of a health education website in Iran. The study lasted for five months. A total of 500 enquiries were submitted to the question and answer system. Eighty enquiries were excluded because they were duplicated submissions, not replied to by doctors or gave insufficient information for a reply. Most enquirers (33%) were female and aged 21-35 years.
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David Astley, ComputerWeekly
“At a government event recently, Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, said he would like to see more doctors regularly offering remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. With the NHS facing severe spending cuts, the move could allow the NHS to make savings while reducing waiting times for millions of patients in the UK.
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Mark Heraghty, Virgin Media Business
“Speaking to a doctor via a webcam might sound like something out of The Jetsons, but it could be a reality sooner than you think. Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, has called for doctors to offer remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. But is this a service people want from their family doctor?
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Duursma F et al, BMC Palliative Care, 10(1)
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Due to the growing number of elderly with advanced chronic conditions, healthcare services will come under increasing pressure. Teleconsultation is an innovative approach to deliver quality of care for palliative patients at home. Quantitative studies assessing the effect of teleconsultation on clinical outcomes are scarce. The aim of this present study is to investigate the effectiveness of teleconsultation in complex palliative homecare.
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Desai B et al, The Pan African Medical Journal, 6
Teledermatology is essentially “dermatology at a distance”, using one of many communication technologies to expand the reach of a dermatologist to those in need of their specialized knowledge. Most international teledermatology is store-and-forward in nature, a method in which images are stored on a computer and then transmitted electronically to a consulting dermatologist. This system is more convenient and less costly than real-time teledermatology.
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Jonathan Sher, Canoe Technology
“Smartphones may become a must for London surgeons sent to retrieve organs for transplant surgery after a Blackberry Bold was used to secure a liver for a patient dying in London.
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Croome KP et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(3)
A 56-year-old man was on the transplant list with end-stage liver disease secondary to hepatitis C when a donor liver became available at a location 545 km away. The procurement team, consisting of a senior and junior fellow, went on the retrieval, while the staff surgeon remained in the hospital with the recipient. At the time of organ procurement, a suspicious lesion was identified in the left lateral lobe. The transplant fellows took intraoperative pictures of the lesion with a smart phone and sent them to the staff surgeon for advice. A teleconsultation, facilitated by images sent from the smart phone, took place over the next 22 min.
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Nancy Shute, NPR
“People with chronic medical problems like Parkinson’s disease can have a hard time finding a specialist who can help them manage the disease. Some patients are turning to doctors hundreds of miles away to get the care they need. But they’re not driving to get to the doctor. They’re doing the medical version of telecommuting, despite the fact that many insurers won’t pay for it.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Many of the barriers to widespread adoption of telemedicine are dissolving because of the health system reform law. Not only is it becoming more feasible for health care organizations to adopt telehealth technologies, but it’s also becoming an attractive way to address many issues plaguing the health care industry.
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Swapnil Rawal, Indian Express
“The next time you feel unwell and want to see your family doctor, pick up your cellphone and dial a doctor who will guide you on the call, prescribe drugs and tests if required. Seems far-fetched? Not any more.
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Dick Vinegar, Guardian Professional
“Three months ago, I was moaning that the upload speeds of “superfast” broadband quoted by BT and Virgin would still not be fast enough or cheap enough for a doctor to have a video consultation with a patient. Last week, I found out, in the unlikely setting of a committee room in the House of Commons, that I may have been unduly pessimistic.
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