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- Internet2
Internet2 is a consortium being led by 202 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet.
- National Coordination Office for Computing, Information and Communications
The mission of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for Computing, Information, and Communications (CIC) is to support the Committee on Computing, Information, and Communications (CCIC), which reports to the National Science and Technology Council.
- National Library of Medicine's Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
Coordinates NLM High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) support, planning, research and development activities with federal, industrial, academic, and commercial organizations at all levels.
- NGI, Internet2: The information super duper highway
Author/editor: Tyler Chin
Date: June 26, 2000
From 2000 AMNews, two projects are under way to build a higher-speed Internet that could make the technology far more useful for patient care.
- What Internet2 Researchers Are Dreaming Up
Author/editor: Ellen Powell
Date: June 5, 2003
There is a parallel universe, and a lucky group of academics and corporate R&D types are lucky enough to live there. It is known as Internet2, or I2, and it is a place where speeds are up to 1,000 times faster, vast datasets can be moved like virtual feathers, and there are no pop-up ads.
- Does the world need wireless robots?
Robots roll from hospital room to hospital room, displaying the face of a doctor or nurse, who can videoconference with patients via a wireless net connection.
- Intuitive Surgical
Computer Motion is pioneering the Operating Room of the Future "the
Intelligent OR " with its expertise in medical computers and robotics.
- Medical Informatics & Technology Applications Consortium
The medical informatics and technology applications consortium (MITAC) is a unique NASA Research Partnership Center (RPC), established to develop, evaluate, and promote information and medical technologies for space flight and ground applications. It is comprised of partners from government, academic institutions and industry that have a commercial interest in products and technology related to telemedicine, medical informatics and medical technology.
- Medical Robotics at the University of California Berkeley
This is an interdisciplinary / intercampus research group between the
Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of University of California, with
members from Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering of UC Berkeley, and Department of
Surgery of UC San Francisco.
- Medical Robots Start Work at London Hospital
Author/editor: n/a
Date: May 18, 2005
Science-fiction moved a step closer to reality on Wednesday when robots nicknamed "Sister Mary" and "Doctor Robbie" started work at a London hospital. The pair allow doctors to visually examine and communicate with patients, whether they are in another part of the hospital or even another part of the world.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Web Resources for Robotics
A comprehensive source of information on standards, funding, professional
organizations and research resources on robotics.
- The Center for Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
Currently MRCAS is a partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and the
Western Pennsylvania Hospital's ICAOS. The group's goal is to foster the
application of robotic and computer technologies within medicine and
surgery.
- UCLA Medical Center Becomes World’s First Hospital to Introduce Remote Presence Robots in ICU
The RP-6 robot will increase doctor access for patients, their families and hospital staff, and UCLA is excited to test the newest addition to the intensive care team.
- American Telemedicine Association Telemedicine Guidelines and Technical Standards Affecting Telemedical Transmissions
References to existing guidelines and standards affecting the practice of telemedicine and transmission of signals with links to sites containing the full information.
- Application of an XML-Based Store-Forward System to Urban Teledermatology
Author/editor: P. Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, T. Cannava, W. Kramer, S. Dyck, R. Colven, MD, C. Haycox, MD, PhD4, R. Gray, T. Norris, MD, MHA, S. Fuller, PhD
Date: not listed
The overall question the investigators sought to explore in this study revolves around the role of store-forward teledermatology in an urban primary care/tertiary care spoke/hub setting. Adobe PDF
- Arizona Telemedicine Technology Assessment Program
The goals of the program are: to evaluate state-of-the-art telemedicine equipment and telecommunications systems; and to transfer the technologies into clinical practice.
- 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.
- Fletcher Allen Health Care Telemedicine
Author/editor: J.L. Gogan and P.J. Guinan
Date: December 15, 1998
Summary of FAHC's telemedicine technology, referencing the FAHC Information Technology Proposal, 1995.
- Fletcher Allen Technical Services
Information about Fletcher Allen's telemedicine system.
- Good Practice Models
In this section, several texts and instruction are compiled which deal with easy-to-read and easy-to-apply steps to take immediate measures in such situations such as the South East Asian Tsunami.
- Networking Requirements and the Role of Multimedia Systems in Telemedicine
Author/editor: Donglok Kim, James E. Cabral Jr., and Yongmin Kim
Date: 1995
Programmable multimedia imaging workstations over a high bandwidth network (ATM) were used to explore the role of multimedia workstations in the telemedicine application. Although the telemedicine workstation exhibited its high performance and programmability, we found from the experiment that a tighter integration of the multimedia capability with the networking component should be one of the mostly desired improvements for the telemedicine system to become applicable in routine clinical environments. From the Image Computing Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
- OpenEMed
OpenEMed is an intuitive patient-record system that supports image, audio, and graphical data, developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
- Store-and-forward Telepathology
Author/editor: Vincenzo Della Mea, PhD
Date: 1999
Published in European Telemedicine 1998/99, this first briefly describes the process of diagnosis and consultation in pathology, then analyses the store-and-forward solutions for doing this, including image acquisition, storage and delivery.
- Technology Use in Rural Health Care: California Survey Results
Author/editor: Fran Turisco, Tania Shahid, Lauri Paoli
Date: April 2003
A California Health Care Foundation report of a survey of providers throughout the state to determine their current use of IT and future plans for implementing technological solutions.
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- Telehealth Deployment Research Testbed (TDRT)
The Telehealth Deployment Research Testbed (TDRT) Program is a national, distributed testbed with the mission to identify and broadly communicate guidelines and methods to simplify the deployment and use of telehealth technology.
- Telehealth Interoperability Lab
Sponsored by the Alberta Research Council and located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, experts in technical and medical application issues develop and implement telehealth systems. Experts at the facility will help set the guidelines for telehealth interoperability. They also test equipment against current, emerging, and de facto standards, from the physical level to the application level, in order to support interoperability. And they are available to advise you on the installation and operation of your telehealth facility.
- Telehealth Technology Guidelines
These guidelines are a work in progress and are the result of a Fall 1999 workshop sponsored by the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT).
- Telemedicine Interoperability Alliance
An effort by Sandia National Labratories to address the need for a universally-accepted approach to the technical interoperability of telemedicine systems. They are soliciting comments on this document.
- 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: 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.
- Telemedicine: Current technological status, applications and future aspects
Author/editor: George Kontaxakis, PhD
Date: June, 2000
Junior Lecture at the IEEE EMBS Summer School on Biomedical Imaging.
In this lecture, the main telemedicine disciplines will be presented: telepathology, teleradiology, tele-emergency services, telesurgery and medical education at distance.
- The Technical Performance and Clinical Feasibility of Telecolposcopy
Author/editor: Diane M. Harper, MD, MPH; Megan M. Moncur, MS; et al
Date: July 7, 2000
From the Journal of Family Practice, the purpose of the study was to demonstrate the technical performance and clinical feasibility of a telecolposcopic system through assessment of image transmission veracity, ease of office system implementation, and the patient's acceptance of the electronic image transmission.
- The Telehealth Deployment Research Testbed (TDRT) Telehealth Technology Review
The TDRT Telehealth Technology Review focuses primarily on technology which may be used for telehealth applications and is designed to provide impartial, up-to-date information on the evaluation of the capabilities of various types of telehealth technology.
- Universal Interfacing System for Interactive Technologies in Telemedicine, Disabilities, Rehabilitation, and Education
Author/editor: Edward Lipson, David Warner, and Yuh-Jye Chang
Date: 1999
A manuscript from Pulsar.org describes a modular hardware and software system for human-computer interaction that allows for flexible, affordable interfacing of people, computers, and instruments. The approach is illustrated with an application in the disabilities area. Other application areas are outlined.
- UTMB Information Services Video Operation: Telemedicine
Provides pictures of a typical consultation site, patient site, typical videoconference equipment components, etc.
- Accom WSD/HDi Records Super-HD Camera
The Quad HD-Max will be used for surveillance, telemedicine including robotic procedures, inspection, education and entertainment.
- Artificial Intelligence in Medical Application: An Exploration
Author/editor: Ishak, W.H.W., Siraj, F.
Date: April 16, 2002
This paper explores the potential of artificial intelligence techniques particularly for web-based medical applications. In addition, a model for web-based medical diagnosis and prediction is proposed.
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- Digital Hospitals Move Off the Drawing Board
Author/editor: E. Drazen and J. Fortin
Date: October 2003
This report provides an overview of digital hospitals in the U.S. It includes both new digital hospitals and those that are transforming specific processes or departments. Prepared by the First Consulting Group for the California Healthcare Foundation. Adobe PDF
- Digital X-rays introduced; could revolutionize medicine
Author/editor: Susan Reed
Date: August 22, 1997
Press release for a breakthrough in X-ray technology was announced Thursday in Silicon Valley that manufacturers believe will revolutionize medical care.
- Doctors prescribe iPods for storage
As a tool for radiologists at the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Keeping one eye on the future of medicine
Anesthesiologists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center feel like they have X-ray vision thanks to a wearable computer system developed earlier this year that has improved patient safety and caught the attention of the Department of Defense.
- 'Laser vision' offers new insights
US firm Microvision has developed a system that projects lasers onto the retina, allowing users to view images on top of their normal field of vision.
- MedITAC
The Medical Informatics and Technology Information Consortium.
- Point Of Care Can Be Anywhere
Author/editor: Bill Briggs
Date: December 2, 2003
Point-of-care technology use is on the rise as provider organizations depend on data access to improve patient care and enhance revenue. From the online Health Data Management, an article on mobile hardware and wireless networks.
- 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
- The PDA Bibliography
From the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, a bibliography on PDAs up to January 2003.
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