TEN-HMS Study Demonstrates Clinical and Financial Efficacy of Home Telemonitoring
The world’s first large-scale, randomized prospective telemonitoring trial showed that home based telemonitoring reduced the number of days spent in hospital by 26% and led to an overall 10% cost savings compared to nurse telephone support. Home Telemonitoring also significantly improved survival rates relative to usual care and led to high levels of patient satisfaction. Full report pdf
Telemedicine Industry Segment anticipates Huge Growth in Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring
Nicole Wilson, Best Syndication News, May 25, 2008
Home Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring is expected to grow up to 70 percent in the next three to five years according to a report published by Insight and Intelligence.Full Article
Telemedicine comes home Medicine: Telemedicine permits remote consultations by video link and even remote surgery, but its future may lie closer to home Full Article
Telemedicine Is Crucial to Implementing Acute Stroke Therapy
Telemedicine is crucial to providing timely therapy for acute stroke at community hospitals. There's only 1 FDA-approved drug for stroke: tPA. But many people who are treated for acute ischemic stroke at community hospitals don't get it.[1,2]Why not?
Proposed use case: Store- and- Forward Medicine
The American Health Information Community Chronic Care Workgroup, after extensive discussion within the workgroup and extensive consultation on the part of several workgroup members with industry experts, proposes a store-and-forward telemedicine provider-to-provider tele-consultation use case. We believe that this recommendation is of considerable utility to payers, providers and patients alike and, if adopted and acted upon by AHIC, is fully consistent with its mandate to help achieve the President's goal for most Americans to have access to secure electronic health records by 2014. Full Report
Get ready to Google-ize your health records
ORLANDO, Fla.--Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will detail the company's plans for Google-izing the health care industry at a health care trade show on Thursday morning, starting with a consumer destination site called Google Health. Full Article
States get help expanding telemedicine
Modern technology allows specialists at major medical centers to diagnose and monitor faraway patients by remotely reviewing their records, analyzing medical images and consulting with them and their local physicians using high-tech video teleconferencing. In the future, doctors even expect to perform long-distance surgery using robotics. Full Article
IHealthBeat reports FCC rule to extend funding
April 11, 2008 FCC Rule Extends Funding to Some Rural Telehealth Efforts
The Federal Communications Commission has extended until 2011 the eligibility for some rural health care provider organizations to receive subsidized funding for their telemedicine initiatives, Health Data Management reports. In March 2005, FCC changed its definition of "rural" health care facilities but temporarily provided subsidies for organizations that no longer qualified for them under the federal telecommunications universal service program. In response to a request by the American Telemedicine Association, FCC in a final rule published in the Federal Register on Thursday has agreed to extend by three years the grandfather period for organizations that no longer qualify for subsidies under the new definition. The FCC rule states, "In its petition, ATA identifies multiple health care facilities that participate in telehealth communication networks in Nebraska and Montana that would be adversely affected by the loss in universal service rural health care funding if the new definition of rural were applied to their rural health care funding applications." FCC said it needs more time to assess the effect of its new definition of rural organizations before any providers lose eligibility (Health Data Management, 4/10).
