Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
A report by a London-based, physician-led think tank concludes that the British National Health Service would do well to emulate the telehealth services developed by the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare operation of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“After that less than stellar performance in the Sunday Age [below] Tim Barlass redeems himself with a fascinating piece about a trial in rural NSW in which elderly patients given a broadband “medibox” which monitored details of blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen and weight and logged them remotely to doctors, demonstrated a dramatic decrease in hospital admissions, and shorter stays.
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Jeremy Wyatt, Guardian Professional
“The Whole System Demonstrators showed that, “if used correctly”, telehealth reduced death rates by 45%, NHS resource usage by 15-20% and tariff costs by 8%. With these striking results and the launch of the industry/NHS funded 3 Million Lives campaign, telehealth is steaming out of its backwater into the clinical mainstream.
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Adam Hill, InPharm
“The government’s Care Services minister Paul Burstow said telehealth and telecare, which employ electronic equipment in homes to read key health signs, would be extended over the next five years to reach three million people.
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Andrew R. Watson, mHIMSS
“Twenty years ago, telehealth appeared on the cusp of revolutionizing care delivery. Back then, substantial barriers existed – technological, cultural and financial – yet most industry visionaries were confident that telehealth must be adopted sooner, rather than later.
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Baker DC, Bufka LF. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42(6)
As technology advances, psychologists increasingly have the opportunity to engage with patients or other users of psychological services via less traditional methods. However, little guidance exists to prepare psychologists to navigate the legal, regulatory, reimbursement, and ethical issues that can arise when providing psychological services via technology.
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Andrew R. Watson, mHIMSS
“Our industry has been deeply engaged in spirited debate, dialogue and discussion these past several years – most of it centered on the future of healthcare.
And if there’s anything this discourse has revealed it’s that everything old is new again.
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Philippa Roxby, BBC News
“First thing in the morning, Terry Munro always puts the kettle on.
“Then I take my blood sugar, take my blood pressure and my weight and in that time the kettle’s boiled.
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Department of Health
“The Whole System Demonstrator programme was set up by the Department of Health to show just what telehealth and telecare is capable of.
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Janet Fang, Smart Planet
“Patients using home healthcare technologies have lower mortality rates, fewer emergency admissions, and shorter hospital stays, according to a UK Department of Health clinical study.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Using remote monitoring technology to keep tabs on patients’ blood sugar and cardiopulmonary disease can reduce the risk of patient mortality by up to 45%, according to a U.K. Department of Health study.
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Mark Say, Guardian Professional
“The roll out of telehealth technology, which the government said will support 3 million people with long term health conditions over the next five years, will be funded as part of the government’s life sciences strategy.
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Matthew Rutter and Joe Stringer, Public Finance
“We welcome the Department of Health’s promise to ‘rapidly accelerate the use of assistive technologies in the NHS, aiming to improve at least three million lives over the next five years.’ This was made in its report Innovation Health and Wealth, Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS.
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Jenifer Greenway, HealthWorks Collective
“According to the American Telemedicine Organization, telemedicine is the use of electronic communications and information technologies to provide clinical services when participants are at different locations. Closely associated with telemedicine is the term telehealth. This term is often used to encompass a broader application of technologies to distance education, consumer outreach, and other applications wherein electronic communications and information technologies are used to support healthcare services.
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ASIP Santé
“La rencontre, organisée dans les locaux de la FIEEC dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris, a permis de présenter à plus de 100 représentants des industriels du secteur de la e-santé en France un tour d’horizon des initiatives les plus innovantes en Europe dans les champs de la télémédecine et de la télésanté.
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Rogove HJ et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2011
Context:
The present study of current telemedicine users is a unique attempt to understand the barriers and motivational factors related to the utilization of telemedicine.
Objective:
A survey of emergency and critical care remote presence telemedicine users was conducted to determine the factors that motivate and the barriers that impede the acceptance and maintenance of a robotic telemedicine (RTM) program.
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Doolittle GC et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(9)
The teleoncology practice based at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas City, Kansas, is one of the longest running practices of its kind worldwide. The practice began in 1995 and connected an oncologist at KUMC with a rural medical center in Hays, Kansas. Fifteen years later, the practice continues to thrive at Hays Medical Center and has also expanded to include two additional sites within the state-the Northeast Kansas Center for Health and Wellness in Horton and Goodland Regional Medical Center in Goodland-that offer regularly scheduled teleoncology clinics. While the KUMC practice has witnessed an expansion in service sites throughout its history, the practice has seen a significant decrease in the costs associated with providing such services since its inception.
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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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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Wireless mobile technologies have great potential to improve global health. But the challenges facing the implementation of mobile health IT worldwide are different than those faced by the efforts to use health IT in the U.S. to transform patient outcomes.
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“Healthcare organizations have checked a lot of technologies off their to-do lists.
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