The telehealth initiatives of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans' Health Administration (VHA) continue to test the limits of technology to provide the best care to our service members, veterans and their families. The DoD and VHA have credentialing systems in place to allow clinical practice between facilities. New legislation in the form of the Servicemembers' Telemedicine and E-Heal...

Methods Participants were 24 male combat veterans with PTSD aged 23 to 66 (M=55.2). Participants were randomized to either a mindfulness telehealth intervention or a PTSD psychoeducation telehealth condition. Both interventions consisted of two in-person and six telephone individual sessions. Measures were collected preand post-treatment and at 6-week follow-up and included the Mindful Attentio...

Many developed countries including Australia became aware of the need for establishing telehealth systems in order to provide better services for patients located in remote and ruler areas. An interpretive research approach was adopted for this research as it can help to understand human thought and action in social and organisational contexts in this case the healthcare organisation. This stud...

An important issue in the advancement and deployment of home care telematic services is their assessment, especially with the goal of improving such services and making them easier to integrate into the social and clinical setting. The meaning that researchers apply to assistive environments and telehealth in general, (i.e. a medical innovation or a drug that can be prescribed to patients or an...

We reviewed telehealth applications which were being used in palliative care settings in the UK. Electronic database searches (Medline, CINAHL, PsychInfo and Embase), searches of the grey literature and cited author searches were conducted. In total, 111 papers were identified and 21 documents were included in the review. Telehealth was being used by a range of health professionals in oncology ...

A Contextualist Approach to Telehealth Innovations

This survey paper serves as an introduction to the challenges and needs related to wireless personal telehealth systems and provides an overview of ongoing activities in industry and various communication standards, aiming to enable plug-and-play interoperability. Specifically, we address a recently founded industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, and ongoing standardization efforts w...

The Internet is proving to be an emerging and promising area of practice for psychotherapists. Known as behavioral e-health, service delivery through the Internet is still in its infancy, however. Guidance for structuring these interactions can be found in the traditional telehealth research literature, where it has been shown that upholding the traditions and requirements of professional pract...

The use of telehealth as a basis for delivering health services is growing across Australia, and there is clear potential for these technologies to address some of the enduring issues of access and costs of service delivery. However, appropriate incentives must be created to encourage clinicians and managers to evaluate the true opportunity costs and benefits of delivering services in this way ...

A couple of years ago, Dr. Mason and myself, in collaboration with Home Based Primary Care and Care Coordination Home Telehealth Services at the Oklahoma City VA medical center began a journey to use technology to improve access to care for older Veterans living in rural Oklahoma. With funding from the VISN 16 Office of Telehealth and Office of Rural Health, we set out to evaluate the benefits ...