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TelehealthNews Vol. 3 No 2......May 2000
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.Featured Interviews:
Stewart Ferguson, Ph.D.
Liz Hopkins and Patty Luncent
2. ATSP OnLine: Telemedicine TeleJournal
Jim Hutchinson M.D.
3. Developments in Wireless Communication
Daniel Frieling
4. Telehealth Resource Links
5. TelehealthNews Review Board
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FEATURED INTERVIEWS
Interview with A. Stewart Ferguson, Ph.D.
Acting Project Director, Chief Technology Officer
Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network
http://telehealth.net/interviews/ferguson.html
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Interview with Liz Hopkins and Patty Luncent
Concerning the partnership of Lucent Technologies
with Johns Hopkins Hospital in telemedicine.
http://telehealth.net/interviews/partnership.html
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ATSP OnLine: Telemedicine TeleJournal
Jim Hutchinson, M.D.
Chairman, Georgia Telemedicine Association
Georgia offered the first statewide telemedical program in the United
States. Unfortunately it is a T-1 point to point system with low,
although growing, utilization. Recognizing this as only a small portion of
evolving Telemedical/Telehealth applications, the then director of the Georgia
Hospital Association's Educational TELNET and myself suggested a format
for expanded discussion in a time/cost effective manner. Via the
Association's telephone bridge, many helpful volunteer TM/TH experts, and
by Internet distribution announcing the sessions, we have offered to an
international audience a varied topic agenda since early 1996. Registration
is by email and the only cost to attendees is that of the connecting phone call.
Also there are no written materials or handouts from the program, but by
exchange of email addresses amongst presenters and interested
participants multiple benefits have been reported to us. Currently we are
expanding access and distribution of the effort by agreement with the
Association of Telehealth Service Providers (ATSP) to post the sessions on their web
site. Applying streaming technology, they may then be utilized globally
and without time zone restrictions by interested participants albeit minus
the live Q&A available to those on the conference call.
J.R.B. (Jim) Hutchinson, M.D. Dr.Hutchinson practiced family
medicine in a small Virginia coal mining town, the United States Air
Force and after residency training, in group and solo Ear Nose and
Throat practices before devoting his efforts to the evolving area of
Telemedicine/Telehealth. To hear Jim's Telenet programs go to
http://www.atsp.org/telejournal/homepage.asp
Dr. Hutchinson may be reached at: [log in to unmask]
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Developments in Wireless Communication
Daniel Frieling <[log in to unmask]>
Using wireless technology, Pediatric Software provides technology to
the Children's Hospital of the Greenville Hospital System to provide a
complete medical record system housed in a mobile van that is used
in making house calls. Capable of storing tens of thousdands of patient files,
wireless portable handheld devices (Windows CE HP/C units, Vadem Clio)
are being used to view and update information live, from handheld devices
carried in the vans. A server is housed in the
van, making files and other record keeping software available to
practitioners within a wide roaming range. Backup files are created
and updated by connecting the mobile server to the hospital's wired
network.
Security:
Electronic medical records have much greater security than paper files. A
cleaning crew working at night in an office has full access to anyone's
medical record placed in chart-racks. The wireless communications from the
handheld devices to the server utilizes 40 bit encryption to prevent
"air-wave stealing" of data. If necessary, 128 bit encryption can be added.
The CompuKID medical record software has multiple levels of password
protection.
Site references:
http://www.compukid.com/updates/pediatric.pdf - case study article
http://www.compukid.com/wireless/moblserv.jpg - portable main-frame
http://www.compukid.com/wireless - wireless CE devices in use
For those of you wanting to see pictures of this equipment being used
in the field, click on these web site addresses:
1. Hamburg Pediatrics, Hamburg, NJ 973-827-1918
Bill Randazzo, MD [log in to unmask]
http://www.compukid.com/wireless/Image16.jpg
doctors reviewing exams
2. Wendy Frieling, MD, FAAP [log in to unmask]
http://www.compukid.com/wireless/Image12.jpg
live in the exam room
3. Jill Costello,RN
http://www.compukid.com/wireless/Image11.jpg
viewing next patient info
4. Glennis Randazzo, RN
http://www.compukid.com/wireless/Image14.jpg
viewing immunization schedule on wired front-desk terminal
Daniel Frieling, President, CTO, Pediatric Software Intl, Inc. (PSI).
Daniel has been a computer software designer for 20 years and has been
designing and implementing medical records software since 1985. As CTO,
Daniel designed wireless medical records solutions utilizing the CompuKID
product on portable servers as well as Internet based connections.
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TELEHEALTH RESOURCE LINKS
Articles on New Telehealth Uses:
DOD Telemedicine
http://www.matmo.org/main.html
Internet Development in India
http://indialine.com/net.columns/column75.html
St. Jude Telemedicine Network
http://www.virtx.net/pr20000402.html
Telemedicine in Asia
http://malaysia.cnet.com/Briefs/Guidebook/Telemedicine/ss02.html
Telemedicine at The State Department
http://www.telemedicine.georgetown.edu/ProjectDepOfState.htm
Telemedicine for Veterinarians
http://tie.telemed.org/news/default.asp#item301
TIE Technology/Program News
http://tie.telemed.org/news/default.asp#item295
UH Cancer Treatment
http://www.amcity.com/pacific/stories/2000/01/31/focus2.html
Bibliographies:
TelehealthNet
http://telehealth.net/biblios/biblio_menu.html
Databases:
TelehealthNet
http://telehealth.net/resources/index.php3
Add your Link: http://telehealth.net/resources/add.php3
UK National Database of Telemedicine
http://www.dis.port.ac.uk/ndtm/
Distance Learning
Cleveland Clinic CME Courses Online for Physicians
http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com
Hospice Foundation TeleConference
http://tie.telemed.org/news/default.asp#item303
MedLecture Offers One-Hour Video Grand Rounds and Lectures
Online http://www.medlecture.com
Physical Therapy Continuing Education
http://www.RehabMAX.com
thehealthchannel.com and LIVEware5
http://www.individual.com/network/headlines/StoryText.shtml?story=b0413082.403&date=20000414&level3=263&uid=Univer52
Legal and Ethical:
American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/about/guidelines.htm
American Counseling Association
http://www.counseling.org/gc/cybertx.htm
Draft Code of an eHealth Ethics Initiatives
Internet Health Coalition
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/draft.html
Safe Health Requires Patience
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34861,00.html
News and General Articles on Telehealth:
Testimony of the American Telemedicine Association
House Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on
Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection
http://www.atmeda.org/news/testimony04112000.htm
Docs in the Dark Ages
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34881,00.html
eHealth Article for Psychologists
http://telehealth.net/articles/deliver.html
Good Medicine in Bad Places
http://www.emergency-medical.com/gmbp.htm
Health Consumers Are Set to Transform the Health Care Industry
http://www.cyberdialogue.com/resource/press/releases/1999/11-03-cch-ehealth.html
Health at the Department of Defense
http://akamai.tamc.amedd.army.mil/Prpo/e-health.cfm
Home Health on the Nightly News
http://tie.telemed.org/news/default.asp#item299
Mental Health
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Apr/24/magazine/WEBMENTAL24.htm
Telemedicine Articles on the Web
http://tie.telemed.org/news/default.asp#item289
UK National Health Service Telemedicine and Telecare Award
http://tie.telemed.org/news/default.asp#item302
WebMD will buy Onhealth.com
http://www.webmd.com/corporate/pr.index.html
Reports on Telehealth:
Archives of Family Medicine
http://archfami.ama-assn.org/issues/v9n1/full/foc8072.html
HIMSS Survey Online
http://tie.telemed.org/news/default.asp#item300
Update on Little Fish Project
http://paninfo.com.au/intro/littlefishproject_homepage.htm
Wit Capital Report: eHealth and eCare
http://www.witcapital.com/research/researchbody.jsp?Report=ehlt_20000131
Special Upcoming Events:
American Telemedicine Association
http://www.atmeda.org/conf/annualmeet.htm
GHA Telnet Information Conferences
<[log in to unmask]>
Symposium on E-Healthcare Strategies
for Physicians, Hospitals & Integrated Delivery Systems
http://www.ehealthcareconnections.com
Worldwide Organization and Meeting Guide by
Myron Pulier, MD.
For a wide range of ehealth, Telehealth and Telemedicine
meetings and over 3,300 organizations. Searchable by:
Alphabetic Index of Organizations
Telehealth Organizations
Meetings Indexed by Location
Meetings Indexed by Date
Telehealth Meetings by Date
http://telehealth.net/calendar/
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TELEHEALTHNEWS REVIEW BOARD:
George Alexander <[log in to unmask]>
Deborah Burton, M.A. <[log in to unmask]>
Rob Glueckauf, Ph.D.<[log in to unmask]>
Leigh W. Jerome, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]>
Warren B. Karp, Ph.D., D.M.D. <[log in to unmask]>
Sunkyo Kwon, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]>
David Nickelson, Psy.D., J.D. <[log in to unmask]>
Nancy J. Sharp, MSN, RN <[log in to unmask]>
B. Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]>
Mike Terry, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]>
TelehealthNews Editor/Writer
Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]>
TelehealthNews Assistant Editor
Bob Pyke, Jr. RN, CPNP <[log in to unmask]>
Telehealth News Assistant Editor
Tim Mount <[log in to unmask]>
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Copyright 2000 by Pioneer Development Resources, Inc.
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