Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: July, 2008
An overview and introduction to home telehealth, the use of telecommunications technology to provide care services to a patient in their home. Includes information on technology, patient assessment, and Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement polices.
Author: Kevin Cassin
Date: April, 2008
A study to query the sequence of medical professionals, hospital liaisons, quality controls, and home health nurses about the implementation of telemonitoring. Looking at what barriers stood in the way of a telemonitor protocol from becoming the standard of practice, and what changes where deemed necessary to bring this technology to home health services provided by RHHS.
Author: Karen Utterback, RN, MSN
Date: January/February, 2005
Citing the shrinking pool of clinicians, an aging and more chronically ill population,
tighter regulations, and declining reimbursement, this article promotes a shift away from reactive
care to a proactive care model using interactive telehealth technology.
Author: Elizabeth E. Hogue
Date: January/February 2005
A review of how to manage some of the liabilities associated with providing tele-homecare, focusing on
liability for negligence and liability for abandonment.
Author: Katsuhiko Ogasawara Ph.D.
Date: July/August, 2004
Describes a study designed to develop and evaluate a movie transmission system for visiting nursing and rehabilitation using a movie cellular phone.
Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: July/August, 2004
An overview of the current technology and practice trends related to telehospice care.
Author: Rita Kobb
Date: July/August 2004
A brief discussion of the activities of the ATA sponsored Home Telehealth SIG.
Author: Craig Lehmann, PhD, CC (NRCC) FACB, Jean Marie Giacini, BS
Date: May/June, 2004
Beginning with an overview of the costs of CHF to our health care delivery system, this
article describes a pilot study that examined the clinical and economic benefits of providing CHF patients
direct access to practitioners via telehealth technology.
Author: George Demiris PhD, Debra R. Parker Oliver PhD, Davina Porock PhD, and Karen Courtney RN, MSN
Date: May/June, 2004
Describes the past experience and future direction of the Missouri Telehospice Project, which in 2002 began using portable videophones with embedded cameras operated via regular analog phone lines.
Author: Janet L. Grady, DrPH, RN and Carole Berkebile, MEd, RN
Date: September/October, 2004
The NTAI is a three-armed research project headquartered at Mt. Aloysius College that
is dedicated to improving nursing education and practice. The first arm focuses on the integration
of telehealth and nursing information technologies into the nursing curriculum; the second focuses
on the establishment of a remote site at a military treatment facility for a Virtual Clinical
Practicum; the third consists of a clinical trial intended to define and test relevant leading-edge
telehealth methods and technologies in the area of CHF home care.
Author: Janice Blanchard, MSPH, CSA
Date: May/June, 2004
Noting that preliminary research into home monitoring technology has focused on cost-effectiveness
and technological efficiency, this article explores moral and ethical issues as they pertain to home monitoring
technology and elder clients.
Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: January 25, 2001
Traces the paths of development for smart houses and home telehealth.
Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: July 17, 2000
Discusses the ways in which telehealth can help meet the changes imposed by the Prospective Payment System (PPS)
are discussed, as well as use of basic low-tech tools such as the telephone, to provide telehomecare services.
Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: January 19, 2000
Reviews the possibilities for using new electronic media to extend conventional and more recent
telehealth care interventions.
Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: March 23, 1999
Reviews the potential uses of easy-to-operate telehealth equipment in patient teaching
and assistance, which, may eventually translate into the patient's taking effective preventative measures for self-care.
Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: September 14, 1998
This article provides a short overview of home telecare services, discusses costs of home
telecare equipment, and provides information on reimbursement for home telecare services.
Author: Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS
Date: June 18, 1998
Overview of the application of home telehealth, circa 1998.
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