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Foster the development, expansion and sustainability of telehealth programs throughout the Northeast.


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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).

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