The essential role of nurses in leading, developing, and improving Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) telehealth services and programs was a key reason the organization was selected to receive the American Nurses Credentialing Center 2013 Magnet® Prize. This article describes the application of telehealth as a nurse-led technology. The innovations within LVHN telehealth services are presented ...

OBJECTIVE There is a paucity of information regarding the usefulness of non-traditional data streams for real-time syndromic surveillance systems. The objective of this paper is to examine the temporal relation between Ontario's emergency department (ED) visits and telephone health line (Telehealth) call volume for respiratory illnesses to test the feasibility of using Ontario's Telehealth syst...

OBJECTIVE To develop a conceptual model for effective use of telehealth in the management of chronic health conditions, and to use this to develop and evaluate an intervention for people with two exemplar conditions: raised cardiovascular disease risk and depression. DESIGN The model was based on several strands of evidence: a metareview and realist synthesis of quantitative and qualitative e...

BACKGROUND Telehealth has been defined as the remote delivery of healthcare services using information and communication technology. Where resource-limited health systems face challenges caused by the increasing burden of chronic diseases and an aging global population, telehealth has been advocated as a solution for changing and improving the paradigm of healthcare delivery to cope with these ...

In VA, care coordination involves the use of telehealth, disease management, and health informatics technologies to enhance and extend care and case management activities. VA is initially focusing its care coordination effort on the home and using home-telehealth technologies. We describe this range of activities as care coordination/home telehealth (CCHT). We are finding these technologies par...

Telehealth refers to the use of technology to provide health care at a distance. The important and increasing role of telehealth in the delivery of health care has been recognized for several decades. Although there are fewer reports on the use of telehealth to deliver oral health services, evidence is emerging that these technologies can enhance the ability of the oral health delivery system t...

Background: Much is written about the promise of telehealth and there is great enthusiasm about its potential. However, many studies of telehealth do not meet orthodox quality standards and there are few studies examining quality of life in diabetes as an outcome. Objective: To assess the impact of home-based telehealth (remote monitoring of physiological, symptom and self-care behavior data fo...

The Scottish Government Joint Improvement Team (JIT) and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT), now merged as the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare (SCTT), published an Education and Training Strategy for Telehealthcare in Scotland in March 2010. In implementing the Strategy’s dedicated Carers Workstream, the SCTT has been working with Carers Scotland and other carer organi­ sation...

Case managers can better coordinate and facilitate chronic illness care by adopting telehealth technology. This article overviews four major categories of telehealth technology based on patients' roles in self-management: surveillance, testing peripherals and messaging, decision support aids, and online support groups related to patients' subordinate, structured, collaborative, and autonomous r...

Telehealth, a clinical information system that transmits data over ordinary telephone lines, is used by individuals in their homes to communicate electronically with health care providers. This study investigated the influence of telehealth on self-management of heart failure in a sample of older adults. We hypothesized that the use of telehealth facilitates patient confidence, with subsequent ...