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TelehealthNews...........Vol. 2 No.1...........March, 1998
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Table of Contents
1. Active Telehealth Projects
2. Politics and Policy
3. Feature Article(s)
4. Internet Resources
5. Telehealth Articles, Books, Journals, Reports
6. Conference and Education
7. Organizations & Companies
8. Internet Lists
9. Telemedicine Opportunities
10. Subscribing, Unsubscribing & Archives
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ACTIVE TELEHEALTH PROJECTS
* DOD:
<http://www.matmo.org/news/newspage.html>http://www.matmo.org/news/newspage.
html
* National Master Patient Index (MPI)-- Microsoft's and Sequoia's are
involved in a project "that would link patient records throughout the
country. The Index will correlate and cross-reference computerized
patient records from different health care organizations while matching
key identifiers with a high degree of accuracy, all without the need for
attendant human operators." For more information see:
<http://www.microsoft.com/industry/health/press/Sequoiapr.htm>http://www.mi
crosoft.com/industry/health/press/Sequoiapr.htm
Los Angeles Teleopthalmology Program
<http://www.matmo.org/news/sections/civprog/op.html>http://www.matmo.org/ne
ws/sections/civprog/op.html
* NLM---October 1996, NLM announced the award of 19 multi-year
telemedicine projects intended to serve as models for: a) Evaluating the
impact of telemedicine on cost, quality, and access to health care; b)
Assessing various approaches to ensuring the confidentiality of health
data transmitted via electronic networks; c) Testing emerging health
data standards. The projects funded affect rural, inner-city, and
suburban areas. They evaluate the use of telemedicine in a wide variety
of settings. Summaries for these projects and links to their web sites
are available. For additional information on the NLM National
Telemedicine Initiative see: <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/>http://www.nlm.nih.gov
* NLM--Provide health care to underserved center-city elderly and
offshore islanders in California. The University of Southern
California's Medical faculty will treat multiple underserved communities
ranging from North Hollywood's center-city elderly and minorities to the
relatively isolated offshore island of Catalina via state-of-the-art
telemedicine systems. Patients will be cared for in their own locale by
means of PacBell network transmittal of USC Emergency medicine support
instead of traveling to distant specialists (e.g., By helicopter or
board from Catalina). Project Web Site:
<http://www-abc.hsc.usc.edu/>http://www-abc.hsc.usc.edu
* NLM--Support rural primary care physicians consulting with remote
specialists in West Virginia. A consortium of nine institutions led by
the Concurrent Engineering Research Center of the West Virginia
University will demonstrate the viability of secure clinical
telemedicine on public telecommunication networks and show that its
adoption as an integral part of an overall health care plan can result
in cost savings and improved access to quality health care for rural
populations. Rural primary care physicians, physicians' assistants, and
other authorized users will have secure access to electronic medical
records and patient monitor data, and be able to confer with
collaborating health care providers at a distance in the treatment of
patients.
<http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/nlm/telemedicine.html>http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/nlm/
telemedicine.html
* STARBRIGHT--The STARBRIGHT Foundation was formed in 1991 between the
worlds of pediatric healthcare, entertainment and new technology. Its
goal is to create, develop and research projects that redefine a child’s
experience of being seriously ill. Each project is designed to address
specific healthcare challenges and is evaluated by children and
STARBRIGHT’s team of collaborators. The STARBRIGHT Foundation’s mission
is to never forget that behind every childhood illness is a child. In
addition to the beta test hospitals, STARBRIGHT World is currently
available at The Children’s Hospital, Denver; Children’s Mercy Hospital,
Kansas City, Missouri; Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Portland,
Oregon; and Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. For
more information on STARBRIGHT, visit the website at
<http://www.starbright.org/>http://www.starbright.org or call 1-800-315-2580.
If you have a project you would like included or reviewed in the next
issue please e-mail us: [log in to unmask]
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POLITICS & POLICY
* HCFA--100% Parity for Psychologists
The Health Care Financing Administration is now working to identify
eligible areas, and over the next year will be drafting regulations
covering implementation: <http://www.atmeda.org/>http://www.atmeda.org
* The National Council of State Boards of Nursing is now looking at a
mutual recognition model of nursing licensure in order to move us
forward into the next century with rules that work, considering the
growth in telehealth. You can check out their statements at:
<http://www.ncsbn.org/>http://www.ncsbn.org
* THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996--
Under the new legislation, universal service, previously designated to
ensure affordable access for consumers to basic telephone service, has
been expanded to include an "E-Rate", or education rate, for schools and
libraries. As part of the E-Rate, telecommunications carriers must now
offer their lowest corresponding rates to elementary and secondary
schools and to public libraries. In addition, schools and libraries will
be allowed additional 20-90 percent discounts on top of the lowest
corresponding rate for telecommunications services, Internet access and
internal connections.
<http://www.fundsforlearning.com/>http://www.fundsforlearning.com , and
<http://www.eratehotline.org/>http://www.eratehotline.org
* 1998 HEALTH CARE BUDGET: HISTORIC HEALTH INVESTMENTS IN CRITICAL AREAS
November 13, 1997, the President signed into law the Labor-HHS-Education
Appropriations bill. This important bill expands the nation's biomedical
research investment by nearly $1 billion; extends AIDS prevention
efforts and treatments to more Americans; takes new steps to prevent
chronic and environmental diseases; improves health care in underserved
rural areas; and enhances efforts to prevent and control infectious
diseases. The Labor-HHS bill increases funding for the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) by over $900 million, for a total of $13.6
billion for NIH in FY 1998.
<http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1997/11
/13/8.text>http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.
us/1997/11/13/8.text
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FEATURE ARTICLE:
Home-Based, Video counseling for Families of Rural Teens with Epilepsy:
Program Rationale and Objectives
Robert Glueckauf, Jeff Whitton, Janet Kain, Susan Vogelgesang, Mike
Hudson, and Jeff Baxter
Purdue School of Science
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
B. Garg and M. Herndon
Indiana University School of Medicine
Adolescents with epilepsy are likely to confront a variety of
psychosocial, educational, and pharmacological difficulties in coping
with their medical condition. Recent studies have shown that adolescents
with seizure disorders are at greater risk for developing psychiatric
disturbances (e.g., depression and conduct disorders) and school-related
problems than their healthy peers and other teens with chronic physical
disabilities (e.g., Austin, 1991). Although parent advocacy and
professional epilepsy groups have called for the development of
counseling programs to address these difficulties, there continues to be
a substantial gap between consumer needs and service delivery.
The most damaging effect of this shortage of counseling services can be
found in rural areas, where local resources are limited and
transportation to major medical centers pose severe obstacles to
adequate health care. Counseling services for at-risk teens with
epilepsy and their parents in rural America is at best inadequate, and
in most cases, nonexistent. Fortunately, however, two recent scientific
developments have enhanced our prospects for meeting the counseling
needs of this underserved population. The first important development is
the emergence of empirically-based, issue-specific family counseling
models. These approaches "tailor" intervention strategies to the
specific issues of families and couples. Glueckauf and colleagues'
issue-specific counseling model (e.g., Glueckauf et al., 1992; Long,
Glueckauf, & Rasmussen, in press), in particular, has shown considerable
promise in ameliorating the psychosocial problems of teens and young
adults with epilepsy and their families. The second development is the
advent of new communication technologies that facilitate long distance,
audiovisual communication. Two-way, audiovisual communication between
families in rural areas and counselors located in major metropolitan
cities is now possible through a combination of PC technology and rural,
56 Switch service.
The primary purpose of our three-year, National Institute on Disability
and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR; Glueckauf, 1996) project is to
evaluate the impact of "issue-specific videocounseling" on the
psychosocial and educational functioning of rural teens with epilepsy
and their parents.
Seventy-five families, consisting of 75 at-risk adolescents with
epilepsy, ages 12 to 19, and their parents from rural Indiana, Michigan,
Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois will be randomly assigned to 1 of 3
intervention conditions: (a) home-based (HB) family videocounseling (n =
25), (b) office-based family counseling (n = 25), and a waiting list (n
= 25). In addition, families in the HB videocounseling condition, who do
not have access to local Switch 56 service (anticipated n = 20), will be
offered HB speakerphone counseling as an alternative. Based on an
earlier pilot study, we anticipate that 1 in 4 families in our 5-state,
catchment area will not have access to 56 Switch service. The
differential effects of these counseling interventions on outcome will
be assessed one week after the 6-session, counseling program, and 6
months following treatment.
The specific objectives of the NIDRR project are to:
(a) assess the differential impact of HB video, HB speakerphone, and
office-based counseling on the level of improvement, severity, and
frequency of specific problems identified by teens with epilepsy and
their parents;
(b) assess the differential impact of HB video, HB speakerphone, and
office-based family counseling on the therapeutic relationship between
family member and counselor, and on overall consumer satisfaction;
(c) test for differences in adherence to intervention and in attrition
rates between families across the three counseling conditions, and
(d) assess the cost-effectiveness of HB video vs. HB speakerphone vs.
traditional office counseling.
The current project is, to our knowledge, the first large-scale,
controlled study to use HB computer technology to address the counseling
needs of rural, at-risk adolescents with disabilities and their
families. We anticipate that the findings of this project will
significantly advance our knowledge of the effects of HB videocounseling
on: (a) the specific problems identifiedby at-risk teens with epilepsy
and their parents, (b) family comfort and satisfaction with HB
videoconferencing technology as a counseling medium, (c) attrition,
adherence to treatment, and the therapeutic relationship between family
members and counselors, and the cost-effectiveness of HB
videoconferencing vs. speakerphone, vs. traditional office counseling.
References
Austin, J. K. (1991). Family adaptation to a child's chronic illness.
Annual Review of Nursing Research (Vol.9) (pp. 103-120). NY: Springer.
Glueckauf, R. L. (1996). Home-based, videocounseling for rural at-risk
adolescents with epilepsy and their parents: An accessibility and
outcomes analysis (H133G60087). National Institute on Disabiility and
Rehabilitation Research, USDE.
Glueckauf, R. L., Webb, P. M., Papandria-Long, M., Rasmussen, J. L.
Markand, O., & Farlow, M. (1992). The Family and Disability Assessment
System: Consistency across judges and measures. Rehabilitation
Psychology, 37, 291-304.
Long, M. P., Glueckauf, R. L., Rasmussen, J. L. (in press). Developing
family counseling interventions for adults w/ episodic neurological
conditions.Rehabilitation Psychology.
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INTERNET RESOURCES
CyberTowers Professional Center, Telehealth Office
<http://cybertowers.com/>http://cybertowers.com
Distance Learning Software:
<http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landurl/oedahome.html>http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landurl/oe
dahome.html
<http://www.uiowa.edu/~itsisdg/index.html>http://www.uiowa.edu:80/~itsisdg/
index.html (U of Iowa)
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy- Reports from 70 US
agencies: <http://www.fedstats.gov/>http://www.fedstats.gov
Hardin Meta Directory Medical Informatics page @:
<http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md-inform.html>http://www.arcade.ui
owa.edu/hardin-www/md-inform.html
Internet for the Family Physician by: Gilberto Lacchia.
<http://oasi.asti.it/aimf/lacchia/familymd.htm>http://oasi.asti.it/aimf/lac
chia/familymd.htm
Digital Cameras:
<http://www.freep.com/browsing/tech/qintel15.htm>http://www.freep.com/brows
ing/tech/qintel15.htm
<http://www.connectix.com/html/color_quickcam.html>http://www.connectix.com
/html/color_quickcam.html
<http://www.quickcam.com/>http://www.quickcam.com
<http://www.howent.com/products.html>http://www.howent.com/products.html
Loop-Back
By calling our site, users can test their videoteleconferencing
equipment. Our site is available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
$1/min/call 1-900-255-LOOP(5667) or
<http://www.microsoft.com/>http://www.loop-back
NetMeeting,: http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting
PharmInfoBYTES
Published by VirSci Corporation, and issued corresponding to updates to
PharmInfoNet: <http://pharminfo.com/>http://pharminfo.com
Technology Registry for Mental Health
<http://cybertowers.com/cgibin/prof.cgi>http://cybertowers.com/cgibin/prof.cgi
Telemedicine Information Exchange site
<http://tie.telemed.org/>http://tie.telemed.org
The National Library of Medicine <http://www.nlm.nih.govweb conferencing:
http:/>http://www.nlm.nih.gov
Web Conferencing: http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/drwool/webconf.html
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CONFERENCES & EDUCATION
* American Telemedicine Association Annual Meeting April, 1998:
<http://www.atmeda.org* community-campus partnerships for health:
principles and best practices for healthier communitiesapril 25-28, 1998
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to request conference registration materials (due
Jan1998), contact:Alisa Holmes, ccph program>http://www.atmeda.org
* GMDS - German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and
Epidemiology: Internet Working Group
"Medicine and the Internet - How to evaluate "
Bonn, March 27, 1998
* How to Build a Telemedicine Program
May 30 - June 3, 1998 @ Fletcher Allen Health Care, The University of
Vermont and The Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, Burlington, Vermont.
For more information contact The University of Vermont at (800) 639-3188
or via e-mail at [log in to unmask]
* The Internet Society, 8th International Conference
July 21-24, 1988 in Geneva.
The details on the conference are available at:
<http://www.isoc.org/inet98>http://www.isoc.org/inet98
* Nursing and Health Informatics Conferences
<http://www.nursing.ab.umd.edu/students/~snewbol/sknconf.htm>http://www.nur
sing.ab.umd.edu/students/~snewbol/sknconf.htm
* Paying for Telehealth: Regional Workshops
For complete program and registration information point to:
Web Site:
<http://www.gmu.edu/departments/chp>http://www.gmu.edu/departments/chp
or Contact: Neal Neuberger, Senior Partner, CPSC,
(703) 536-5642 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
* Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) electronic campus:
<http://www.srec.sreb.org/>http://www.srec.sreb.org
* Telemedicine & Distributed Medical Intelligence Conference
Lake Tahoe, CA March 8-10, 1998
Contact: Lori Maiolo 919.816.2695
Hosts: Office of CME East Carolina University School of Medicine and
Telemedicine Technologies Company:
<http://www.telemed.med.ecu.edu/dis_lern/conf_m.htm>http://www.telemed.med.
ecu.edu/dis_lern/conf_m.htm
* Telemedicine: Charting the Future, Forging New Alliances
Telemedicine & Distributed Medical Intelligence Conference
March 8-10, 1998 in Lake Tahoe, CA.
Host: East Carolina University Telemedicine Program.
This conference will explore cutting-edge innovations and changes in the
developing global telemedicine environment:
<http://www.telemed.med.ecu.edu/>http://www.telemed.med.ecu.edu
* Universal Service Provisions
Free broadcast Wednesday, NOVEMBER 19, from 12:00noon to 1:00pm EST
Healthcare Informatics Telecom Network will present a broadcast on the
Universal Service Provisions.
<http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs/telecom.htm>http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/
richs/telecom.htm
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TELEHEALTH ARTICLES, BOOKS, JOURNAL, REPORTS
The Comprehensive Self-Help Book online at
<http://www.cmhc.com/psyhelp>http://www.cmhc.com/psyhelp
MEDLINE:
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/datab
ases/freemedl.html
PSYCHWEB: 1,000+ Psychology and Social Science Journal sites:
<http://www.gasou.edu/psychweb/resource/journals.htm>http://www.gasou.edu/p
sychweb/resource/journals.htm
SIM Quarterly -- published on the WWW almost quarterly. Available to all
interested in using the Internet for medicine.
<http://www.cybertas.demon.co.uk/simq/home.html>http://www.cybertas.demon.c
o.uk/simq/home.html
TIE: 3000 Telemedicine abstracts:
<http://tie.telemedicine.org/>http://tie.telemedicine.org
TIME--"Heroes of Medicine" 11/3/97-12/29/97. Has an article about NPs
and the University of Kansas program in it.
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ORGANIZATION & COMPANIES
American Education & Research Association:
<http://aera.net/about/standards.html>http://aera.net/about/standards.html
American Psychological Association: <http://www.apa.org/>http://www.apa.org
American Telemedicine Association:
<http://www.atmeda.org/>http://www.atmeda.org
Arent Fox Telemedicine & Law:
<http://www.arentfox.com/telemedicine.html>http://www.arentfox.com/telemedic
ine.html
Association of Telemedicine Service Providers:
<http://atsp.org/>http://atsp.org
British Health Care Internet Association:
<http://www.bhia.org/>http://www.bhia.org
The Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking (C\CEN) @ University
College of Cape Breton: <http://ccen.uccb.ns.ca/>http://ccen.uccb.ns.ca
DoD Telemedicine Web Site: <http://www.matmo.org/>http://www.matmo.org
East Carolina University Telemedicine Program
<http://www.telemed.med.ecu.edu/>http://www.telemed.med.ecu.edu
European Telework Online: <http://www.eto.org.uk/>http://www.eto.org.uk
European Telework Development Initiative:
<http://www.eto.org.uk/etd>http://www.eto.org.uk/etd
FCC: <http://www.fcc.gov/>http://www.fcc.gov
Federal Telemedicine Gateway:
<http://www.tmgateway.org/>http://www.tmgateway.org
Georgia's Rural Health Information Clearinghouse (RHIC)
<http://gain.mercer.edu/www/rhic/rhic.html>http://gain.mercer.edu/www/rhic/
rhic.html
Healthcare Information Management Systems Society
<http://www.himss.org/>http://www.himss.org
HOST: <http://www.hostnet.org/>http://www.hostnet.org
NIH: <http://www.nih.gov/>http://www.nih.gov
NIMH: <http://www.nimh.nih.gov/>http://www.nimh.nih.gov
NLM:
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.htm>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databa
ses/freemedl.htm
NP Pages at <http://www.nurse.net/np>http://www.nurse.net/np
psycOH!: <http://www.psycoh.com/>http://www.psycoh.com
Society for the Internet in Medicine:
<http://www.mednet.org.uk/mednet>http://www.mednet.org.uk/mednet
Telemedicine Information Exchange:
<http://tie.telemed.org/>http://tie.telemed.org
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TELEMEDICINE OPPORTUNITIES
* APN Jobs are at <http://www.nurse.net/jobs>http://www.nurse.net/jobs
* Colorado Psychological Resources is a free service for the public
providing information about and referrals to Licenced Mental Health
Professionals. Nationwide, Therapists may join our network at any time
call 1 (800) WE-GUIDE.
* The Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking (C\CEN) of the
University College of Cape Breton (UCCB) does research, development and
enterprise incubation in the use of Information and Communications
Technologies in support of local economic development, particularly in
rural areas. C\CEN's would like to offer our work as a possible venue
for collaborative or self-funded graduate research; post-doctoral or
sabbatical study; or as a beta-test site for appropriate hardware,
software or innovative rural informatics applications.
C\CEN has limited on-site research and technical support and office
accommodation, access to current activities and research programs,
Internet access, and a vibrant and creative group of researchers,
program developers and technical support staff. C\CEN also has ongoing
active institutional links with the United Nations; United Kingdom,
South Africa Malaysia, Canada, the US, and technology/development
oriented NGO's
Anyone with interest or proposals please please contact:
Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.
Director: Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking
University College of Cape Breton, PO Box 5300,
Sydney, NS, CANADA B1P6L2
Tel. 902-562-1055 (h) 902-563-1369 (o) 902-562-0119 (fax)
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<http://ccen.uccb.ns.ca/>http://ccen.uccb.ns.ca
* Discount the cost of wiring and ISP services up to 90% for education
related projects. Check these web sites:
<http://www.fundsforlearning.com/>http://www.fundsforlearning.com, and
<http://www.eratehotline.org/>http://www.eratehotline.org
* NEXT GENERATION INTERNET (NGI) SOL BAA 98-02 The Next Generation
Internet (NGI) initiative will develop novel network capabilities to
enable a new wave of revolutionary applications. DARPA's role in NGI
will involve: experimental research for advanced network technologies;
and the development of ultra-high speed switching and transmission
technologies that lay the groundwork for terabit per second (Tb/s)
networks. This announcement solicits proposals for these components.
More information is available @:
<http://web.fie.com/htdoc/fed/dod/drp/any/proc/mti/10159702.htm>http://web.
fie.com/htdoc/fed/dod/drp/any/proc/mti/10159702.htm
* If you are interested in data storage, referral and security, here is
a set of grant/contract RFPs. TITLE: SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATION
LABORATORY --
<http://www.wl.wpafb.af.mil/contract/hp.htm>http://www.wl.wpafb.af.mil/cont
ract/hp.htm
* The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Internet Connection Grant is
designed to encourage US healthcare hospitals, clinics, schools and
research institutions, and professional organizations to connect to the
Internet.
Want to know more? Want to take advantage?
a) Connect with the NLM at <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/>http://www.nlm.nih.gov
b) Choose Extramural Grants
c) Choose Internet Connection for Medical Institutions
d) Look- at the Application cycles Next one is February 1, 1998
e) And either request or download an application form
NLM staff are available to assist you. Take advantage!
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