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...

BACKGROUND Telemedicine appears to be ready for wider adoption. Although existing research evidence is useful, the adoption of routine telemedicine in healthcare systems has been slow. OBJECTIVE We conducted a study to explore the current use of routine telemedicine in Norway, at national, regional, and local levels, to provide objective and up-to-date information and to estimate the potentia...

This paper describes an overview of telemedicine applications in ophthalmology and at the same time to provide background information on new tele-ophthalmological applications and the use of tele-Ophthalmology. Few urban areas for their population, no access/ very less access to tertiary eye care. In order to make eye care services accessible to every one, the concept called “Teleophthalmology”...

Telemedicine is the way to provide better health care facilities to the people of the underprivileged unprocurable areas. As constraints on time and resources makes face to face consultation increasingly dearly-won, and telemedicine has the potential to produce major efficiencies in the symptomatic process. Therefore the goal of current research is to truss medicine with technology, and to prod...

INTRODUCTION Telemedicine use in addiction treatment and recovery services is limited. Yet, because it removes barriers of time and distance, telemedicine offers great potential for enhancing treatment and recovery for people with substance use disorders (SUDs). Telemedicine also offers clinicians ways to increase contact with SUD patients during and after treatment. CASE DESCRIPTION A projec...

The objective of this study was to determine the cost effectiveness of outpatient pulmonary subspecialty consultations via telemedicine. A decision-analytic model was used to compare the cost effectiveness of providing outpatient telemedicine pulmonary consultations with alternative treatment methods. Model options included: (1) telemedicine, (2) routine care (patients travel from a remote site...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. These technologies allow communications between patient and medical staff with convenience as well as the transmission of medical, imaging and health informatics data from one site to another. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. A...

The objective of this study was to assess the use of telemedicine services at community health centers. A national survey was distributed to all federally qualified health centers to gather data on their use of health information technology, including telemedicine services. Over a third of responding health centers (37%) provided some type of telemedicine service while 63% provided no telemedic...

Telemedicine (also known as telehealth) is a means to increase access to care, one of the foundations of the Triple Aim. However, the expansion of telemedicine services in the United States has been relatively slow. We previously examined the extent of uptake of hospital based telemedicine using the 2013 HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Analytics national database o...