Technology spreads doctors outside the hospital and office
provides help in remote locations and in transit
SPARKS, Nev. (Oct. 29, 2014) – Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announces the successful completion of the Transport Telemedicine System (TTS) Proof of Military Utility Advanced Development Assessment for the U.S. Army Medical Material Agency. TTS is a new capability that captures and communicates patient care and condition information beginning at the Point of Injury (POI) and continuing until arrival at a medical facility.
TTS capability generates broad, real-time Situational Awareness regarding patient condition and care, informing receiving medical facilities of incoming patients. The system is designed to be ‘agnostic’ to patient care devices, radios and care provider input devices. It includes a mobile carry-on configuration to all MEDEVAC platforms, accurate Voice Data Entry and transcription in high-noise environments, and export of patient data to the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) repository
Published on Jun 4, 2014LionNet, Penn State Hershey Medical Center's regional stroke care network, offers real-time video consults between doctors in area emergency departments and Penn State Hershey stroke specialists. This provides faster diagnosis and treatment for strokes for patients throughout central Pennsylvania. Although most community hospitals do not have neurologists and neurosurgeons on-site 24/7, participating community hospitals now offer their patients access to Penn State Hershey experts as if they were right there, in their own hospital.
Published on Dec 7, 2014
Senate Bill 328 Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act has the ability to decrease healthcare costs, improve access to emergency services, morbidity, and mortality rates through the implementation of telemedicine.
Since the emergence of telegraphy and telephone technologies in the 19th Century, doctors have been communicating and consulting with each other over long distances. Telemedicine, as distance healing was first highlighted in 1970, when Thomas Bird wrote about patient care in which physicians were able to examine their patients by using telecommunication technologies. In short, telemedicine can simply involve two health professionals discussing a case over the telephone, or be as sophisticated as using the satellite technology to broadcast a consultation between providers at facilities in two countries, using video conferencing equipment (Mishra & Mishra, 2006). Telemedicine has the potential to reduce differences in the lives of people, especially those living in remote areas, away from hospitals and thus deprived of quality and timely medical care. The main role of telemedicine is to provide rapid access to experienced health care professionals at a distance using telecommunications and information technologies, no matter where the patient is located. The spectrum of technology used in telemedicine is broad, ranging from simple phone, faxes and emails, to satellite-based relay transfers and state-of-the-art computer and videoconferencing facilities. We divide video communication in telemedicine into video-conferencing and telepresence.
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Telemedicine via ACTS
ACTS: Telemedicine Via Satellite
ARGE MEDICAL CENTERS IN URBAN AREAS can support small and medium-sized facilities in small towns and rural areas because of today's advanced communications technologies. Advanced communications satellites, such as Lewis Research Center's Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS), help provide quality medical diagnosis and information services to remote facilities in a faster, more cost-effective manner.
ACTS, the world's first processing Ka-band satellite, is pioneering new communications initiatives that apply to telemedicine. It uses small, low-cost portable antennas with affordable high-data-rate (up to T1—1.544 megabytes per second) transmission of medical records, images and live video. A number of experiments have explored the telemedicine applications of ACTS.
Satellite’s role in telemedicine / Telecommunications & Integrated Applications / ESA
The benefits of expanding the use of telemedicine are threefold:
Several working groups were organised to cover various aspects of telemedicine, including:
- it can improve the quality of healthcare services;
- permit the best use of often limited hospital resources such as beds, doctors, nurses and expensive medical equipment; and also
- help to resolve the problem of unequal access to good health care.
- the elderly
- disaster relief and emergencies
- hospitals in remote areas
- teleconsulting, 2nd opinion and regulatory aspects
- medical education and clinical research
- technology development in satellite communications
KosmoMed | ESA's ARTES Applications
KosmoMed will provide four categories of services:
- Tele-consultation service, which will allow two medical specialists to have a consultation in real time by video-conference and/or to share clinical data on their local workstations.
- Tele-diagnosis service, which will allow a physician or a technical operator to have a consultation with a specialist in real time by video-conference and/or to share clinical data on their local workstations.
- Tele-counseling service, which will allow a patient to have a counseling with a physician or a specialist in real time by video-conference, optionally supported by sharing of data.
- Tele-validation service, which will allow a technical operator to have a consultation with a specialist in real time by video-conference and share clinical data so that they can be validated; in this context clinical data are submitted to a validation workflow before being used for statistical processing.
KosmoMed
aims at developing a Satcom based ICT solution providing eHealth
application and services supporting private and public institutions,
which will allow extensive access to health data exchange and create a
multidisciplinary platform to provide professional tools and eHealth
services for professionals, patients and citizens in the field of
eClinical Studies, Counselling and Medical Research.
Video Telemedicine Market Global Industry Analysis and Forecasts 2014 - 2020 shared in new report - WhaTech
Paying for Telemedicine | Page
- Telemedicine offers the potential for better care, lower costs, and increased convenience.
- Expanding existing fee-for-service payment models to include telemedicine may lead to its overuse. Already there are many skeptics among payers and providers regarding this method of payment.
- The greatest potential for effective and efficient use of telemedicine services lies in the use of emerging payment models.
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