The Tygerberg Children's Hospital and Rotary Telemedicine Project

The financial impact of a pediatric telemedicine program: a children's hospital's perspective.

INTRODUCTION This study evaluates the financial impact of telemedicine outreach in a competitive healthcare market from a tertiary children's hospital's perspective. We compared the number of transfers, average hospital revenue, and average professional billing revenue before and after the deployment of telemedicine. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective review of hospital and physici...

Innovative programs in telemedicine: the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Telemedicine in Iran: Chances and Challenges

BACKGROUND Technology is likely to transform the way care is delivered at home and in the community. Telemedicine, the child of IT and Medicine sciences is the use of telecommunication equipment and information technology to provide clinical care to individuals at distant sites and the transmission of medical and surgical information and images needed to provide that care. Undoubtedly, the adv...

Impact of Telemedicine on Severity of Illness and Outcomes Among Children Transferred From Referring Emergency Departments to a Children's Hospital PICU.

OBJECTIVES To compare the severity of illness and outcomes among children admitted to a children's hospital PICU from referring emergency departments with and without access to a pediatric critical care telemedicine program. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary academic children's hospital PICU. PATIENTS Pediatric patients admitted directly to the PICU from referring emerge...

What drives attitude towards telemedicine among families of pediatric patients? A survey

BACKGROUND Telemedicine has been recognized as a way to improve accessibility, quality, and efficiency of care. In view of the introduction of new telemedicine services, we conducted a survey through a self-administered questionnaire among families of children attending the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, a tertiary care children's hospital located in Rome, Italy. METHODS We investiga...