In this blog item the author rants most engagingly that many healthcare organisations are rushing into technological areas that they do not understand. He is responding (approvingly) to a recent US Joint Commission’s Sentinel Events Alert on HIT that challenges… Read moreJust what part of biomedical informatics research don't you understand?
Adam Vincent, Caitlin M Cusack, Eric Pan, Julie M. Hook, David C. Kaelber and Blackford Middleton from Partners Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School produced a one-page conference poster for the AMIA 2007 Symposium suggesting a taxonomy for telehealth. This… Read moreTelehealth terminology: a contribution to the debate
Frankly, I’m not sure what to make of this story. The introduction reads: “The University System of Ohio is soon to be a global hub for online medical education and videoconferencing following a decision to fund the creation of a… Read moreOhio to be global hub for telemedicine
Item for the techies – in case they haven’t read it already. Eliminating Medical Device RF Interference
A quick reminder that if you wish to present at next April’s Med-e-Tel conference the deadline for papers is 20th December. Submission details here.
This Guardian article, reporting on Edinburgh following Croydon’s example of setting up ‘virtual wards’ of people being cared for at home, is slow to get going but read on to where it gets into some of the detail. It’s a… Read moreVirtual wards linking home and hospital
From 1 January 2009, eligible originating sites for payment of telehealth services will include hospital-based or critical access hospital-based renal dialysis facilities (including satellites), skilled nursing facilities and community mental health centers. Details here.
Earlier this month the EU Commission issued a document: Communication on telemedicine for the benefit of patients, healthcare systems and society. It’s not as dry as you might expect and covers: Definition of telemedicine Telemonitoring Making it happen (including, helpfully,… Read moreEU Commission telemedicine document
What is it with doctors who seem to want to make mechanical copies of themselves? A search for ‘robot’ in the above search box will throw up a few examples. Here’s another, from the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online… Read moreTelepaediatric robots
A school in Knoxville, Tennessee, has installed telemedicine equipment to improve the service the nurse can provide. Here is a news item from WBIR.
