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TelehealthNews..Vol. 3 No.1......May 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I
1. Feature Article: Interactive Videoconference Center Design
2. Active Telehealth Project # 1: Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
Active Telehealth Project # 2: Lake City Community College
Active Telehealth Project # 3: Virginia Department of Corrections
Active Telehealth Project # 4: Distance Learning Network (DLN)
3. Politics and Policy
4. Telehealth Professional Associations: Update
TelehealthNews Review Board
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FEATURED ARTICLE:
Interactive Videoconference Center Design
by Jerome Hodges
For an eyeful of information about how to design and
develop an interactive video conference center, see this article:
http://telehealth.net/videocon/videocon.html
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POLITICS & POLICY:
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
http://www.hipaasource.com/
http://www.cobracompliance.com/index.html
http://www.auxillium.com/hipaa.htm
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/healthcare/hipaa/guide.htm
http://www.insurancebenefit.com/hippainfo.htm
http://www.aafp.org/gov/961216-3.html
The Utah System of Higher Education --Technology and Distance Education
Initiative
http://www.utahsbr.edu/tech/intro.htm
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ACTIVE TELEHEALTH PROJECT #1: Partners HealthCare System, Inc
Partners HealthCare System, Inc., is an urban, integrated delivery
network serving Eastern Massachusetts and headquartered in Boston.
Other affiliates of Partners HealthCare System include Brigham and
Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, North Shore Medical
Center, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, approximately 900 primary care
physicians, and a number of affiliated community hospitals and
clinics.
Partners works to shape the future of medicine by researching
telecommunications and information technologies to provide improved
access to medical information, diagnostic tools and consultative
services. Partners recognizes that the impact of telemedicine on
patient care is potentially enormous. It ensures that clinicians, both
within the Partners community and worldwide, have continuous and
immediate access to the most advanced medical support.
Telemedicine has allowed countries to add thousands of specialists at a
fraction of the cost of staffing a single, small hospital. Additionally, by
broadening avenues of communication among clinicians, particularly through
remote medical education, it has the potential to foster more uniform
international approaches to health care delivery.
Partners Telemedicine conducts physician-to-physician clinical
consultations in almost 30 countries in the Middle East, Europe, Latin
America, and Asia. In addition to the clinical consultations, Partners
Telemedicine has an active program of research to investigate
utilization of advanced communication technologies to improve care and
lower costs. Studies of remote dermatology, echocardiology, stroke
management, vascular wound management, and congestive heart failure
are under way. Finally, Partners Telemedicine has created a 60 node
videoconferencing capability to facilitate physician and allied health
professionals continuing education, foster integration of the
residency programs conducted at disparate affiliated sites, and export the
intellectual resources of the Partners specialists to other physicians
world-wide. Partners Telemedicine offers consultation to other hospitals,
clinics and medical systems that may want to investigate telemedicine, as
well as conducting executive briefings and tailored seminars for private
sector businesses that want to learn more about telemedicine and its
potential impact on their industry segments.
For further information about Partners Telemedicine, visit their Web
site at http://telemedicine.partners.org, e-mail them at
[log in to unmask], or call (617) 724-8863.
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ACTIVE TELEHEALTH PROJECT # 2: Lake City Community College
How We Built a $700,000 System on $40,000 and a Vision
by Duffy Soto
Lake City Community College is one of 28 state supported community
colleges in Florida and is among the smallest and most rural. Yet the college
operates one of the most modern and comprehensive compressed video
teleconferencing networks in the state. Using very unique and creative
strategies, the college was able to build the $700,000 system with only
$40,000 of its own money. The rest was obtained through the crafty
recruitment of a diverse group of partners from both the public and private sector who
were attracted to the idea because of the system’s multi purpose use concept. In
order to become a partner, the College required a nominal commitment that could be
“pooled” to create a match base for grant applications.
Using the initial pool of cash and “in-kind” put forth by the partners as
match, the college wrote and applied for funding from four different grant
sources. In each instance the grant readers were so impressed with Lake City Community
College’s unique approach that all of the sources provided funding for the
project--- to the tune of more than $581,000.
The Lake City Community College system is composed of seven multi-point
capable compressed video sites linking a geographic area roughly twice the
size of the state of Rhode Island. The College can conduct up to four
separate conferences at a single time across an almost unlimited geographic range
throughout the world. The system incorporates a wide variety of learning
tools including satellite conferencing integration, links to health care givers,
Internet access and information sharing interfaces, videotape, multi camera angles,
PC applications and more.
If you’d like to learn more about Lake City Community College and how they
went from nowhere to near the top of Florida’s digital delivery ladder in
three short years using little of their own money, contact Mr. Duffy Soto at:
<[log in to unmask]> or by phone at (904) 752-1822 extension 1241.
Duffy Soto, Dean, Technology and Innovation
Lake City Community College, Lake City, Florida
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ACTIVE TELEHEALTH PROJECT # 3: Virginia Department of Corrections
Telemedicine Program
by Robert Higginison
In 1995, the Virginia General Assembly provided funds to initiate a
feasibility pilot program for the use of telemedicine to assist with the care
of inmates within the Virginia Department of Corrections. Since October
1995, telemedicine clinics have been operating at Powhatan Correctional
Center to assist with the care of HIV-infected inmates. The program is a
cooperative effort between infectious disease specialists from Virginia
Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia Hospitals (VCU/MCVH)
and the medical and nursing staff at Powhatan Correctional Center (PCC).
Telemedicine clinics for inmates at PCC are also conducted for cardiology,
hepatitis and oral surgery, with assistance from other departments within
VCU/MCVH.
The HIV-infected inmates are initially evaluated at the MCVH's Infectious
Disease Clinic, and can then be seen for follow-up appointments through the
telemedicine clinic. The telemedicine program is available for inmates at
PCC and for inmates housed in other institutions. Inmates from correctional
centers located near PCC are transported to PCC for their telemedicine
appointments, instead of being transported to MCVH for follow-up
appointments. With this change in inmate transportation, security and safety
are more readily maintained, and it also decreases the need for additional
correctional officers for transport and escort responsibilities.
Currently this telemedicine program operates six four-hour sessions per
month, and provides care for approximately 40 to 50 HIV-infected inmates
monthly. From October 1995 to April 1999, 1055 telemedicine clinic visits
with HIV-infected inmates have occurred through this collaboration between
MCVH Infectious Disease Clinic specialists and the medical and nursing staff
at PCC. Mr. Higginson can be reached at <[log in to unmask]>
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ACTIVE TELEHEALTH PROJECT # 4: Distance Learning Network (DLN)
by Eric Porterfield
Since 1996, DLN has become the fastest-growing resource for live,
interactive broadcasts focused solely on educating professionals from the
mental health field. More than 40,000 psychiatrists, psychologists,
counselors, social workers, nurses and other healthcare professionals have
viewed DLN broadcasts or accessed DLN programming via Mental HealthNet's
on-demand Internet service.
DLN offers mental health facilities the hardware (small 18" satellite dish
and receiver) they need to receive programs free-of-charge. Once the
hardware is installed, an unlimited number of healthcare professionals at
that site may attend any DLN program. While most programs and credits are
provided to subscribing sites free, some programs are require the site pay
a nominal fee ($100-$200) in order to receive a broadcast, fulfillment
materials ad credit.
DLN provides CME, APA, NBCC and nursing credits for most of its programs.
On occasion, social worker credit is available for taking part in DLN
programs. For a list of upcoming broadcasts, or to request satellite
reception hardware for a facility, contact Distance Learning Network at
(800) 326-9166.
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TELEHEALTH PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Updates
American Nursing Association
http://www.nursingworld.org/
Nursing World Website
ATA Adopts Telehomecare Clinical Guidelines
http://www.atmeda.org/news/list.html
United States Distance Learning Association
http://www.usdla.org/
Non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the development and
application of distance learning.
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VIDEOCONFERENCING RESOURCES
Atlas - Market Place
http://www.savie.com/market.html
Who sells and what in the videoconferencing business
Court Technology Vendors List
http://www.ncsc.dni.us/ncsc/VENDOR/Vindex.htm
Desktop Video Conferencing Product Survey
http://www3.ncsu.edu/dox/video/
An excellent source of information about desktop video conferencing. The
product information at this site is comprehensive and useful, and the site
includes pointers to descriptions of desktop videoconferencing standards.
Videoconferencing FAQ
http://www.bitscout.com/faqtoc.htm
Information for the growing number of individuals and companies interested
in Desktop Videoteleconferencing.
Videoconference Resource Center
http://www.videoconference.com/
Information on desktop and roll-about systems, links to other
videoconference sources.
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TELEHEALTHNEWS REVIEW BOARD:
Deborah Burton, M.A. <[log in to unmask]>
Rob Glueckauf <[log in to unmask]>
Leigh W. Jerome, Ph.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 Columnist
Bob Pyke, Jr. <[log in to unmask]>
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Disclaimer: The accuracy of any information presented herein cannot be
guaranteed. Permission is granted to reproduce or distribute this newsletter in its entirely
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Copyright 1999 by Pioneer Development Resources, Inc.
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