Telemedicine and Telehealth Links

Medical Records

• A model patient records system
  Author/editor: Brian Robinson
  Date: February 21, 2005
  VA officials have developed a system that many believe could be the low-cost foundation of the nationwide electronic health record (EHR) system that President Bush wants to deploy.
• A Paperless Health-Care System?
  Author/editor: Alex Salkever
  Date: July 7, 2004
  At some hospitals, like Evanston North in Illinois, digital records are saving money and possibly lives. It's the start of an IT boom.
• Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare: A Preliminary Roadmap from the Nation's Public and Private-sector Healthcare Leaders
  Author/editor: Markle Foundation
  Date: July 2004
  This report from the Markle Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation details specific actions available to the public and private sectors to advance electronic connectivity and, hence, further the reality of a national health information infrastructure. Adobe PDF
• Canada Health Infoway
  Electronic health records: the capability of computer and software systems to seamlessly communicate with each other.
• Framework for Strategic Action
  Author/editor: David Brailer
  Date: July 21, 2004
  A fact sheet written by David Brailer MD, the U.S. National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, that will guide the nation toward an EHR.
• HealthConnect
  HealthConnect is a network of electronic health records that aims to improve the flow of information across the Australian health sector.
• Medical Errors
  Author/editor: Sandra Wendel
  Date: February 2000
  From Healthcare Informatics, an Institute of Medicine report raises questions about technology.
• Medical Records Institute
  Information about Electronic Patient Records from the Medical Records Institute. Includes information about relevant conferences.
• Medical Records Projects
  Author/editor: Marjorie Lazoff, MD
  Date: October 2001
  From Medical Computing Today. Once accessible only to conventioneers or readers of medical informatics journals, these works-in-progress are presented to the online medical community on sites whose Web tools vary from simple frames and hypertext to plug-ins and multimedia.
• Practice Brief: Telemedical Records
  Author/editor: Donna M. Fletcher, MPA, RRA
  Date: April, 1997
  From Journal of AHIMA 68, no. 4, based on extensive research and interviews with those who have telemedicine programs in place, it can be concluded that telemedical record requirements, regardless of media, are the same as for other medical records.
• Progress in Promoting Adoption of Smart Card Technology
  A January 2003 report from the Government Accounting Office (GAO)to review the use of smart cards across the federal government, as well as identify challenges to using them.
• Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals
  VeriChip, the company that makes radio frequency identification--RFID--tags for humans, has moved one step closer to getting its technology into hospitals.
• Web-based EMR or Clinical Information Systems
  List of links maintained by telemedical.com.

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