Remote consultations

Teaching and learning aspects of remote medical consultations

In 1988, Norwegian Telecom Research (NTR), in co-operation with the University Hospital of Tromsø (UHT), started a project on telemedicine in North Norway. North Norway is characterised by sparsely populated communities spread over vast distances. Furthermore, the increase in complexity and amount of medical knowledge has caused a demand for specialisation within the health services. As a conse...

Triage and remote consultations: moving beyond the rhetoric of access and choice.

Quality of care for remote orthopaedic consultations using telemedicine: a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND Decentralised services using outreach clinics or modern technology are methods to reduce both patient transports and costs to the healthcare system. Telemedicine consultations via videoconference are one such modality. Before new technologies are implemented, it is important to investigate both the quality of care given and the economic impact from the use of this new technology. The...

Clinical consultations

who through ignorance of the proper method commits error after error and who is led astray by a simplistic reliance on symptoms. But there are limits to a doctor's knowledge; only God, a higher power, knows everything or disposes of health to every patient, and the workings of the heavens are not always revealed to the physician. Sometimes the responsibility for a patient's failure to recover c...

Coding for Medicare consultations.

Neurology® Clinical Practice 2010;75(Suppl 1):S56–S59 Medicare and some other carriers no longer allow use of the Consult code families. The government made this change to address problems in use of the Consult codes. Other existing codes are to be used in their place. The crosswalk to the other codes is complicated. Prolonged Services codes should be added in some cases. Neurologists need to u...