Telemedicine and Telehealth Links

Evaluation and Assessment

• Assessment
• Cost-effectiveness
• Evaluation

Assessment

• A Model for the Assessment of Telemedicine and a Plan for Testing of the Model within Five Specialties
  Author/editor: Arto Ohinmaa, Jarmo Reponen and Working Group
  Date: 1997
  Report from the Finnish Office for Health Care Technology Assessment. The preliminary survey for the telemedicine assessment project was carried out in 1996 jointly by the Health Care Districts of Northern Finland and Southwestern Finland, and FinOHTA. The project engaged both a telemedicine expert and a health economics expert. The survey outlined the application of the assessment process to a new field and to a concrete environment. The survey aimed at producing models and guidelines for the elaboration of assessment criteria and for the planning of research and development within telemedicine.
• Assessing Telemedicine: A Systematic Review of the Literature
  Author/editor: R. Roine, A. Ohinmaa, D. Hailey
  Date: September 18, 2001
  A full text online article published in the volume 165(6) issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). A systematic review of the literature was performed to identify controlled assessment studies of telemedicine that reported patient outcomes, administrative changes, or economic assessments, and assessed the quality of that literature.
• Minority Health Professions Schools Telemedicine Assessment Report
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: January, 1997
  The Minority Health Professions Foundation (MHPF) has been working collaboratively with the Center for Public Service Communications (CPSC) in Arlington, Va. to develop and strengthen telecommunications linkages among MHPF member institutions.
• Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic MedicineTelemedicine Planning Guide
  A guide to the planning process, including needs assessment, technology, telecommunications, and protocol.
• Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Executive Summary
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: February, 2001
  Prepared by the Oregon Health Sciences University Evidence-based Practice Center, this report assesses specific telemedicine study areas, with a focus on those that would substitute for face-to-face medical diagnosis and treatment of the Medicare population. Thus, this report targets face-to-face clinical specialties (as opposed to radiology and pathology) and the Medicare population (adults as opposed to children and pregnant women).
• Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Full Report
  Author/editor: Hersh, W.R.
  Date: July 2001
  Prepared by the Oregon Health Sciences University Evidence-based Practice Center for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this report assesses specific telemedicine study areas, with a focus on those that would substitute for face-to-face medical diagnosis and treatment of the Medicare population.
• Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Pediatric, Obstetric, and Clinician-Indirect Home Interventions: Full Report
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: February, 2001
  Prepared by the Oregon Health Sciences University Evidence-based Practice Center, this report is a supplement to an earlier evidence report, Telemedicine for the Medicare Population, which was intended to help policymakers weigh the evidence relevant to coverage of telemedicine services under Medicare. The original report focused on telemedicine programs and clinical settings that had been used with or were likely to be applied to Medicare beneficiaries.
• Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care
  Author/editor:  Marilyn J. Field
  Date: 1996
  The National Library of Medicine asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to develop a broad framework for evaluating clinical telemedicine. This book, available in full text, presents that framework and focuses on telemedicine's effects on the quality, accessibility, cost, and acceptability of health care.
• Telepsychiatry Pilot-Project in Denmark
  Behandlingscenter Den Lille Prins in Copenhagen, is a psychiatric clinic that is conducting a pilot project to provide telepsychiatric service in patients' own language where the access to appropriate psychiatric care is limited. This pilot project has so far demonstrated high acceptance and usefulness of videoconferencing in order to increase accessibility to mental health services on own language for refugee/immigrants population in Denmark.

Cost-effectiveness

• Developing a Business Plan for Home Telehealth
  Author/editor: Charissa Ashman, Sam Burgiss
  Date: April 2006
  An article from the New York State Association of Health Care Providers about how to develop a business plan for home telehealth programs. Includes a section on calculating ROI for home telehealth Adobe PDF
• Systematic Review of Cost Effectiveness Studies of Telemedicine Interventions
  Author/editor: P.S. Whitten, F. S. Mair, A. Haycox, C.R.May, T.L. Williams, S. Hellmich
  Date: June 15, 2002
  An article in the British Medical Journal reviews cost-benefit studies of telemedicine. Available for download and in pdf format.

Evaluation

• A Methodology for Telehealth Evaluation in Australia
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: Spring, 2000
  From Australia's Better Health Outcomes Newsletter vol 6 no 3, Spring 2000.
• Assessment of Approaches to Evaluating Telemedicine
  Author/editor: The Lewin Group, Inc.
  Date: December, 2000
  The DHHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) contracted with The Lewin Group to assess current approaches to evaluating telemedicine. The purpose of this study is not to evaluate telemedicine, but rather to identify the different kinds of issues on which telemedicine evaluations can focus, and the kinds of information that such evaluations can yield. This report is intended to guide future evaluators and policy makers in selecting the questions that they want to answer regarding the value of telemedicine programs, and in designing evaluations that will best serve their interests and purposes.
• Evaluating Telemedicine in Rural Settings: Issues and Applications
  Author/editor: Susan M. Capalbo, Christine N. Heggem
  Date: November, 1998
  A 1998 report from the Trade Research Center at Montana State University. Adobe PDF
• Evaluation of the Victorian Telepsychiatry Program - Executive Summary
  Author/editor: Anne Buist, Arlene Silvas
  Date: October 19, 1999
  The evaluation was performed over an 8 week period in early 1998 by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia, in collaboration with Simsion, Bolwes, and Associates.
• Evaluations of the Technology Opportunity Program, 1996-1997 Projects (July 2001)
  A comprehensive evaluation of projects funded in 1996 and 1997 by the Department of Commerce's Technology Opportunities Program, summarizing findings from a survey of 42 TOP projects completed and no longer receiving grant monies as of June, 2000. The report assesses the impact that TOP funds had on the organizations implementing the projects. It also reports on the impact the grants had on other participating organizations, individuals, and the communities served by the projects.
• Exploratory Evaluation of Rural Applications of Telemedicine
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: February 1, 1997
  From the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP). This project, which was the first nationwide survey of rural telemedicine, examined the status of rural telemedicine. It also developed evaluation tools and methods for agencies and individual programs to use in assessing the contribution of telemedicine to rural health care delivery. Adobe PDF
• Missouri Telemedicine Network Evaluation Forms
  Author/editor: none
  Date: n/a
  The following forms are available for download as pdf files: Adult and Minor Consent Form; Adult Consent Form Only; Minor Consent Form Only; Patient Questionnaire; Office Staff Form (patient demographics collected by the office staff); Telemedicine Continuing Education Registration & Evaluation Form. Adobe PDF
• National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine Final Report
  Author/editor: Michael G. Kienzle, Susan Zollo
  Date: October 27, 1997
  The purpose of this document is to review the accomplishments, summarize the lessons learned, and delineate outcomes for contract N01-LM-4-3511 from The National Library of Medicine (NLM). This three-year telemedicine project began on April 1, 1994 with the establishment of the National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine at The University of Iowa.
• Outcomes of the Kaiser Permanente Tele-Home Health Research Project
  Author/editor: Barbara Johnston, RN, MSNM&L; Linda Weeler, RN, MSNM&L; Jill Deuser, RN, MBA; Karen H. Sousa, RN, PhD
  Date: January, 2000
  Archives of Family Medicine, Vol. 9 No. 1. Quasi-experimental study conducted from May 1996 to October 1997, to evaluate the use of remote video technology in the home health care setting as well as the quality, use, patient satisfaction, and cost savings from this technology.
• Tech Effect: Better Health Care Through Information Technology
  Author/editor: Tyler Chin
  Date: August 13, 2001
  Physicians, health plans and hospitals must get together to implement the technology to improve care, says an Institute of Medicine report. But even those who wrote the report say that's easier said than done. From Amednews.com
• Telehealth Handbook from the Centre for Telehealth
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: 2003
  This Handbook is a resource to the growing number of people working in the field of telehealth, with a particular focus on applications in the area of mental health and addictions. Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation Unit (Mheccu). Adobe PDF
• TeleMed 101 Evaluation Forms
  A selection of forms for evaluation, patient satisfaction, informed consent, and other forms available from links in the TIE's Telemed 101 section.
• Telemedicine Applications in Finland 1996
  Author/editor: M. Kvist
  Date: 1996
  The state of telemedicine applications was evaluated by means of telephone interviews directed at the chief physicians of all the hospital districts in Finland and at other key persons recommended by them. The data were supplemented by interviews directed at the private sector. All in all, 44 interviews were made between November 1995 and January 1996.
• The Challenge to Embed Telepsychiatry
  Author/editor: John Mitchell and Benjamin Mitchell
  Date: December, 1994
  An evaluation of the non-clinical aspects of the South Australian Mental Health Service Telemedicine Pilot Project.

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