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Daily FYI October 02, 2009 Missouri Telemedicine Project Links Patients to Medical InterpretersSource: iHealthBeatNew videoconferencing services are helping non-English speakers in Missouri communicate with their physicians, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The Missouri Telehealth Interpretation Project links the Missouri Telehealth Network with interpreters from St. Louis' Language Access Metro Project.
ExpressMD(TM) Solutions Selected to Supply Chronic Heart Disease Telehealth Program in Florida Source: PRNewswire ExpressMD(TM) Solutions, a provider of telehealth monitoring systems and services for patients with chronic illnesses, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Dr. Benedict Maniscalco to utilize its Electronic House Call(TM) telehealth monitoring solution in his cardiology practice as well as for his new Florida based Chronic Heart Disease program for Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients. The Electronic House Call telehealth solution allows physicians to remotely monitor patient vital signs, thereby helping to reduce the cost of patient care while enabling health care providers to improve their patients' medical outcomes.
Telemedicine is just as vital to healthcare reform as insurance coverage We've known about the power of telemedicine for some time, but it's good to see the news making it into the general press. It's equally satisfying to see someone talking about telemedicine in the context of healthcare reform, because anyone who's read my recent columns at FierceHealthIT or FierceEMR knows how frustrated I am with the debate focusing almost exclusively on insurance coverage, as opposed to real improvements in the quality of care. But that's exactly what Dr. David Steinhaus, medical director of Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, did in a Washington Post op-ed last week, encouragingly headlined, "Telemedicine Is Here."
New Report Forecasts The Market Size Of The Global Telemedicine Market For The Period 2008-2012Source: Official Wire Telemedicine is a provision of healthcare services, which uses telecommunication technology and multimedia equipment to provide healthcare solutions over a geographic distance. The technology and equipment used to provide the service include: videoconferencing, cameras, Internet, satellites, and wireless communications. Telemedicine provides clinical care services through two main technologies: pre-captured (archived and then sent over the communication network) and real time. The pre-captured technology is used in non-emergency situations. Applications of this technology include Teleradiology and Telepathology. The real time technology, on the other hand, requires the use of interactive screens to facilitate face to face consultation. It also assists the provision of services such as Telecardiology, Telepsychiatry, and Telepediatrics. Videoconferencing is commonly used to provide real time healthcare services.
First Video Laryngoscopic Intubation Performed via Telemedicine Source: Sys-con The Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, led by Dr. John C. Sakles, recently performed the first telemedicine-assisted video laryngoscopic intubation using the GlideScope® Video Laryngoscope to assist Northern Cochise Community Hospital, a small, rural healthcare facility in Southern Arizona.
Frost & Sullivan Free Webinar Presents U.S. Telemedicine and Its Future in U.S. Healthcare Source: PRNewswire The Healthcare practice at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the U.S. telemedicine industry to be held on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. PT. This year has held much talk and debate regarding healthcare reform. While there is no doubt issues must be addressed within the U.S. healthcare system, solutions such as electronic medical record (EMR) acceptance, or even payer reform, will not be a cure-all for the complex issues present in this market. Even complex solutions such as telemedicine by no means solve all of these problems, but instead look to be a critically important piece of the puzzle heading into the future of U.S. healthcare.
CHRISTUS center offers homeless clients psychiatric help via telemedicine Source: Catholic Health Association of the United States Homeless men and women seeking help at the CHRISTUS Our Daily Bread center in Galveston, Texas, now have access to free psychiatric services via videoconferencing, through a partnership between CHRISTUS Health Gulf Coast and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Harry Faust, a psychiatrist with the medical branch, will be available to Our Daily Bread's homeless clients for four hours each week to assess, counsel and educate them and to advise them on managing their medications. The telepsychiatry services will supplement the services that CHRISTUS' center already offers the homeless. These include the provision of meals, clothes and hygiene items; individual and group counseling; help recovering from addictions; health assessments; occupational therapy; and referrals to other service providers. |
