Search Tag: telemedicine
Intouch-health-irobot-announce-first-customers-to-install-rp-vitatm-the-new-face-of-telemedicine
2013 15 May
RP-VITA can speed specialized care to patients during the critical minutes following a stroke. (Photo: Business Wire). Top academic medical centers and leading healthcare systems across North America are now introducing their patients to RP-VITATM, the first FDA-cleared telemedicine robot that combines state-of-the-art telecommunications and...Read more
Mayo-clinic-telemedicine-study-under-way-in-rural-honduras
2013 12 Jun
Every day, thousands of volunteer medical relief groups offer care to patients and assistance to understaffed medical teams in remote, underdeveloped locations around the world. Often these groups of doctors and nurses come for a short time, offer care and return home. Once they leave what then? "The difficulty is continuity of care," says Blake Fechtel,...Read more
Telemedicine-a-way-to-decrease-patient-waiting-times-in-ed-in-the-u-s
2013 12 Jun
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity. To address this issue, a pilot study has been launched at UC San Diego Health System's ED to use telemedicine as a way to help address crowding and decrease patient wait times. The study is the first of its kind in California...Read more
Agfa-healthcare-worldline-enter-rgional-imaging-agreement-with-alsace-e-sante
2014 22 Jan
Agreement will deliver a series of shared services to healthcare and radiology facilities across Alsace Agfa HealthCare and Worldline are acting as a consortium to implement an innovative solution for sharing medical images. The SIMRAL project foresees to archive and share more than 1 million imaging exams per year, amongst 53 facilities...Read more
Partners-healthcare-at-home-strengthens-services-with-philips
2014 14 Feb
Leading Massachusetts Home Health Provider Aims to Reduce Readmissions and Improve Care Coordination with Philips Hospital to Home program Partners HealthCare At Home has selected Royal Philips support its growing telemonitoring services, providing improved clinical oversight for newly discharged patients and those with chronic conditions, such...Read more
Legal-aspects-of-telemedicine
2013 28 Nov
Author Dr. Jan Schillebeeckx Ehealth stakeholder (European Society of Radiology representative) European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG Connect) Key Points Telemedicine is high on the European political agenda; By 2020 telemedicine will be widely...Read more
Telemedicine-guidelines-to-address-icu-and-patient-safety
2014 15 May
Telemedicine still surrounded by confusion, industry organisations aim to clarify matters The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the American Telemedicine Association have drafted policies and guidelines aimed at clarifying the confusion which currently surrounds telemedicine. This demonstrates the challenge many healthcare providers...Read more
Telemedicine-to-connect-19-million-by-2018
2014 01 Jul
Approximately three million patients are currently connected to their professional caregivers via devices that remotely monitor health data. By 2018, that figure is expected to increase nearly five-fold, to 19 million patients worldwide. The expansion of mobile health technology will also double its share of total revenues, from one fifth to 40 percent...Read more
Telehealth-kiosks-connect-patients-to-mayo-clinic
2014 06 Oct
Mayo Clinic is committed to reducing health care expenses and improving access to medical services through a new telemedicine pilot project called Mayo Clinic Health Connection, now available at Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin. The Mayo Clinic Health Connection trials a telehealth delivery system to meet patient’s needs through the HealthSpot®...Read more
Changes-that-may-affect-physicians-pay-in-2015
2014 30 Nov
Several developments are expected in the year 2015 with respect to the income of physicians. While some changes will be troubling, others may garner more positive reactions. Some of the key changes to look out for include: Higher Deductibles. In 2015, physicians will have to deal with the problem of high deductibles ($1,000 or more). According...Read more
Smartphone-tools-promote-sun-safety-monitor-moles
2015 28 Jan
Two articles published online by JAMA Dermatology address the use of mobile technology applications in skin cancer prevention and skin care. The first reports on the results of two studies of the Solar Cell app for promoting sun safety, while the second discusses how teledermatology can assist patients and physicians in the short-term monitoring...Read more
Zoom-on-dr-theodoros-kyprianou-nicosia-general-hospital
2015 09 Apr
Dr. Theodoros Kyprianou, MD PhD EDIC, is Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at Nicosia General Hospital in Cyprus and Associate Professor, St Georges University of London – Medical Programme at the University of Nicosia Medical School. Dr. Kyprianou is currently Chair of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s Technology Assessment...Read more
What-s-it-like-to-work-in-a-tele-icu
2015 12 May
National Public Radio visits a tele-ICU in North Carolina in the United States in this blog piece and podcast. While health professionals are on site, care is also provided by nurses and doctors working in the Carolinas Healthcare System tele-ICU, a command centre that monitors ICUs in 10 of the group’s hospitals. Doctors and nurses working at the...Read more
Telemedicine-reduces-cost-of-care
2015 25 May
An UC Davis study has shown that compared to telephone, paediatric telemedicine consultations produced significant cost savings while improving quality of care. Telemedicine systems may be expensive to install and maintain, but they more than pay their way, saving an average $4,662 per use, researchers say. The findings are reported in the journal...Read more
A-first-with-telehealth-and-parkinson-s-disease
2015 29 Jun
Mobile apps targeted at patients with Parkinson's disease are being tested by researchers from the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics (CHET) at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center. The study aims to help researchers understand day-to-day struggles of those suffering from this illness, as well as how patients respond to various...Read more
Telemedicine-first-in-neonatal-icu
2015 05 Jul
A Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) study, published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare , shows that robot-assisted telemedicine could be used to perform bedside rounds and direct daily care for infants with mild-to-moderate disease. Researchers found no significant differences in patient outcomes when telemedicine — with real-time audio...Read more
Telehealth-on-the-rise
2015 14 Jul
Most physicians (57 percent) in the United States are open to having video consultations with their patients, according to a nationwide survey conducted by telehealth vendor American Well. Only 12 percent of respondents are unwilling to see a patient over video and 31 percent remain uncertain. More than 2,000 primary care doctors took part in the online...Read more
Skype-top-use-in-chronic-disease-management
2015 19 Jul
Skype is increasingly being used in telemedicine, with clinicians utilising this popular web-based video tool more commonly to provide healthcare for adults than for children, according to new research from the Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Researchers found that the use of Skype was most prevalent...Read more
Envision-healthcare-and-intouch-health-partner-to-provide-comprehensive-telemedicine-services
2015 22 Jul
Concurrent with the ninth Telehealth Innovation Forum, Envision Healthcare (NYSE: EVHC) announced a strategic partnership to combine Envision’s vast array of more than 27,000 clinicians and integrated technologies for healthcare staffing services with InTouch Health’s industry-leading telehealth platform. This partnership brings together InTouch Health’s...Read more
Telehealth-population-health-management-improvements
2015 02 Aug
Two recent studies carried out by HealthMine highlight the importance of wellness programmes and telemedicine in properly diagnosing and controlling illness. In a survey of 750 consumers enrolled in wellness programmes about being diagnosed and dealing with chronic illness, 28 percent reported they had a chronic illness — of which, 42 percent were...Read more
Med-e-tel-2016
2016 06 Apr
Med-e-Tel is an event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH), THE international federation of national associations who represent their country's Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders. On a local and regional level, Luxembourg's National eHealth Agency (Agence eSanté) will actively participate again in the event with a...Read more
Face-to-face-consult-advised-before-telehealth
2015 11 Sep
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued policy recommendations for the practice and use of telemedicine in primary care. In a position paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine , the ACP said it supports the expanded role of telemedicine as a way to increase access to care and reduce costs. However, benefits offered by telemedicine...Read more
Hospital-chaplains-and-telemedicine
2015 05 Oct
Use of telemedicine has expanded to meet the growing spiritual needs of patients, with hospital chaplains now offering spiritual support increasingly through Skype, FaceTime and other high-tech connections, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal . The demand for spiritual support, in a variety of forms, is expected to increase as hospitals...Read more
Better-kidney-disease-management-with-remote-consultation
2015 09 Nov
Use of telemedicine has proved to be effective in managing patients with chronic kidney disease, according to a new study presented at ASN Kidney Week 2015 in San Diego, California. Telenephrology (web-based consultation) is essentially equal to conventional in-person care for managing the disease, and may even be superior for visit compliance, researchers...Read more
Payment-barriers-deter-telehealth-adoption
2015 22 Nov
A national survey found that 9 out of 10 physicians in the U.S. would use telehealth, provided they were properly reimbursed. The majority of physicians surveyed cite administrative issues and a lack of billing services to address the need for reimbursement tools as a major detraction from implementing telehealth into their practices. The Robert Graham...Read more
Telemedicine-improves-doctor-patient-relationships
2015 15 Dec
People living in rural areas often lack access to modern healthcare, and one approach used to address this problem is telemedicine. New research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine shows that video-based healthcare is effective for patients and helps enhance patient-provider interactions. The findings are reported in the journal The...Read more
4-ways-to-streamline-er-use
2016 18 Jan
In a commentary published in Becker's Hospital Review , Chis Van Goder, the CEO of Scripp's Health highlights that emergency departments face the problem of increased load of non-emergency patients. Despite the fact that hospitals and healthcare systems have been consistently expanding or building new emergency departments, they are still not...Read more
Tele-icus-nurses-views
2016 21 Jan
In the U.S., results of a national survey show that telemedicine can improve ICU patient care. More than 75 percent of tele-ICU nurses responding to the survey said that telemedicine offers an opportunity to improve patient care and that it is useful in their job, according to the results published in the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC) ....Read more