Telemedicine and Telehealth Links

Government

• Agencies, departments and offices
• Reports, articles and other documents

Agencies, departments and offices

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  Formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration. Provides information on reimbursement for telemedicine under Medicare and Medicaid.
• FirstGov
  On FirstGov.gov, there are more than 51 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive resource of government sites anywhere on the Internet.
• Indian Health Service Telemedicine and Telehealth Projects
  The Indian Health Service is moving rapidly in deploying state-of-the-art technology to bring primary care and specialty medicine to remote locations to reduce geographic barriers between remote, smaller communities and health care providers.
• NASA Occupational Health Program: Telemedicine
  NASA has been involved in telemedicine since the early days of the space program. Across the agency, different organizations are investigating telemedicine technologies and applications.
• Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT)
  HRSA has established the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) to serve as a leader in telehealth, a focal point for HRSA’s telehealth activities, and as a catalyst for the wider adoption of advanced technologies in the provision of health care services and education.
• Strategic Plan: VA Midwest Health Care Network 2005-2009
  Author/editor: Department of Veterans Affairs
  Date: November 2004
  The VA Midwest Health Care Network, VISN 23, is one of VA’s 21 Veteran Integrated Health Service Networks. Adobe PDF
• Veterans Health Administration Telehealth
  VHA uses electronic information technology and communication technology to ensure excellence in the health care it delivers to the nation’s veterans.

Reports, articles and other documents

• 2001 Report to Congress on Telemedicine: Executive Summary
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: May 22, 2001
  The Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999, Section 6, requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to submit a Report to Congress on Telemedicine by 2001. Congress requested a description of barriers to telemedicine, determine the extent of patient and physician satisfaction with this mode of health delivery, and assess patient benefits from telemedicine services.
• Center for Devices and Radiological Health Telemedicine Related Activities
  Author/editor: Melvyn Greberman M.D.
  Date: July 11, 1996
  A 1996 report on telemedicine-related activities of the CDRH which also details Center initiatives to clarify and improve their operations in this area.
• Connecting The Nation: Classrooms, Libraries, and Health Care Organizations in the Information Age
  Author/editor: Emilio Gonzalez and Michael K. Hamra
  Date: June, 1995
  From NTIA's Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications, Connecting the Nation provides a status report on this critical national initiative by drawing from the most current data regarding Internet connectivity, a benchmark for NII access.
• Federal Agencies: Activities in Telemedicine, Telehealth & Informatics
  Report from Bloch Consulting Group, covers dozens of Federal departments in 16 major agencies. $$
• HRSA's Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Funding Guide
  The Office for the Advancement of Telehealth's guide to federal telehealth funding resources.
• Innovation, Demand and Investment in Telehealth
  Author/editor: D. Brantley, et al
  Date: February 2004
  The Technology Administration was asked, in its role as a portal to private industry, to conduct the first comprehensive analysis of telehealth since 1997. This report focuses on the state of innovation, demand and investment in telehealth in the United States at the end of 2003. Its findings represent information collected in over 40 interviews with medical specialists, information technology innovators, healthcare consumers, etc. This report should be viewed as a baseline, presenting what is current, while offering a roadmap for achieving what is possible. Adobe PDF
• Making a Powerful Connection: the Health of the Public and the National Information Infrastructure
  Author/editor: Roz D. Lasker, M.D., Betsy L. Humphreys, M.L.S., William R. Braithwaite, M.D., Ph.D.
  Date: July 6, 1995
  Report of the U.S. Public Health Service Public Health Data Policy Coordinating Committee, In April 1995, the PHS sponsored a conference at the National Library of Medicine, during which leaders in the NII and population health communities had an opportunity to come together, explain their work to each other, delineate the barriers that currently discourage application of NII technologies to the information problems of population-based public health, and lay out a comprehensive strategy for moving forward. This version outlines the issues that were brought up and discussed at the conference and incorporates the strategic plan that was developed on April 20. It is being disseminated widely, both to audiences seeking to learn more about the potential of the NII to improve the health of the public, and to those who can help make these potential applications a reality.
• Medicaid and Telemedicine
  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report regarding Medicaid reimbursement for services provided via telemedicine. Includes a list of states reimbursing for telemedicine under Medicaid.
• Review the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program
  Author/editor: Committee on Agriculture
  Date: June 23, 2003
  A hearing on June 25, 2003 before the House of Representatives to review the US Department of Agriculture Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant program. Adobe PDF
• 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 in Indiana Policy Report [pdf]
  This report represents the collective efforts of key stakeholders from around the state of Indiana. Led by researchers at the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University, the policy report seeks to provide background information and suggestions for improvement regarding obstacles for effective deployment of telemedicine in the state of Indiana.
• Telemedicine Report to Congress 1997
  Author/editor: Joanne Kumekawa, Dena S. Puskin, Sc.D., Thomas Morris, editors
  Date: January 31, 1997
  Congress asked the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and other appropriate departments and agencies, to submit a report on the use of advanced telecommunications services for medical purposes. Specifically, the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996, requires a summary of the Joint Working Group on Telemedicine's (JWGT) activities as well as findings from federally-funded telemedicine studies and demonstrations. In addition, Congress requested that the report examine questions related to patient safety, the efficacy and quality of services provided and other legal, medical, and economic issues.
• Telemedicine Technical Assistance Documents
  Author/editor: Joe Tracy (editor)
  Date: 2004
  These documents are targeted at those individuals interested in beginning a telemedicine program. The Documents were developed by a group of Office for the Advancement of Telehealth grantees. Adobe PDF
• Telemedicine: Federal Strategy is Needed to Guide Investments
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: February 14, 1997
  From the General Accounting Office, providing information about the step the federal government needs to take to realize the full potential of telemedicine and achieve cooperation with the private sector. Adobe PDF
• Telemedicine: The Promise and the Challenge
  Author/editor: Larry Irving
  Date: March 5, 1997
  Remarks of Larry Irving Assistant Secretary of Information and Communications, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Virtual Environments for Health Care
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: October, 1995
  From the National Institute of Standards and Technology, this report surveys the state of the art in applications of virtual environments and related technologies for health care.
• Wired for Health and Well-Being: The Emergence of Interactive Health Communication
  Author/editor: Thomas R. Eng, David H. Gustafson, Editors
  Date: April, 1999
  This is the report of the Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health (the Panel) on the emerging field of interactive health communication (IHC). It is intended primarily for developers and users of applications, researchers, clinicians, public health professionals, and policymakers from both the public and private sectors. This report provides information and analyses about this field so that IHC stakeholders may be better able to make critical decisions about IHC—its development, use, purchase, evaluation, and policy environment. Available online and in PDF.

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