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Plenary Session Keynote Speaker Presentations:

Rashid Bashshur His Excellency, Professor A.Q.M.B. Choudhury MG Lester Martinez-Lopez Molly Joel Coye James Peake Ronald Poropatich Steven R. Normandin Jonathan Linkous Jay H. Sanders	OPENING PLENARY SESSION Welcome: Rashid Bashshur, PhD President, American Telemedicine Association (only available on tape) His Excellency, Professor A.Q.M.B. Choudhury (pdf) President, People's Republic of Bangladesh "Military Telemedicine...Transforming Healthcare" MG Lester Martinez-Lopez Commanding General, USAMRMC (only available on tape) Presentation of the ATA President's Award Sponsored by AMD Telemedicine, Inc. ATA 2002 BUSINESS FORUM PLENARY LUNCHEON     • top• Welcome: Steven R. Normandin Chair, ATA's Industry Advisory Board Vice President and Director, AMD Telemedicine (only available on tape) Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH Founder & CEO, The Health Technology Center (only available on tape) LTG James B. Peake The Surgeon General, U.S. Army Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command (only available on tape) Thurman Award Presentation MG Lester Martinez-Lopez Commanding General, USAMRMC (only available on tape) ATA 2002 POLICY PLENARY & ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING    • top• Presiding: Rashid Bashshur, PhD President, American Telemedicine Association (only available on tape) The State of the Association Jonathan D. Linkous Executive Director, American Telemedicine Association (only available on tape) Special Interest Group Agendas Installation of New Leadership ATA: A Plan for the Future COL Ronald K. Poropatich, MD President-Elect, American Telemedicine Association (only available on tape) THE ROLE OF TELEMEDICINE IN HOMELAND DEFENSE: AN ATA BRIEFING    • top• Presiding: Rashid Bashshur, PhD President, American Telemedicine Association (only available on tape) MG John S. Parker, retired (27.5KB) USAMRC Senior Vice President, Enterprise and Health Solutions Sector, SAIC Corporation Jay H. Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI President & CEO, The Global Telemedicine Group President Emeritus, American Telemedicine Association (only available on tape)

Concurrent Session Presentations

Listed below are selected presentations made at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Telemedicine Association. Also included are the authors of the paper or presentation. Presentations are sorted by category and some may be present in more than one category. All presentations are in powerpoint format and available for download.

Categories Include:

Business Planning	Cardiology
Correctional Care	Dermatology
Distance Learning	E-Health
Evaluation & Research	Financial Cost & Benefits
Homecare/Remote Monitoring	Homeland Security/Disaster Relief
Human Factors	International
Legal Policy & Regulatory	Mental Health
Military	Ocular
Operations & Management	Pediatrics
Radiology/Pathology Imaging	Rehabilitation
Rural	Statewide/Regional Networks
Technology	Telecommunications/Wireless Networks
Veterans

Business Planning

• Videoconference Business Case: Moving From Pilot To Ongoing & Expanding Service (514KB)
  Courtney Trautman1, Joseph L. Ternullo, CPA, Esq. 1, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD1,2
  1Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA; 2Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

• Transitioning To E-Health: Not Just A Name Change (338KB)
  Maria C. Horton, CDR, NC, USN, (MSN), David L. Felton, LT, NC, USN, (MS), Michael D. Azar, MS
  National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

• Internet 2 for Transmission of Cineangiograms (3.46MB)
  Vivian L. West, RN, MBA, Joseph Babb, MD, David C. Balch, MA
  East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine: Addressing Global/Homeland Security Needs (6.10MB)
  Colonel Ronald K. Poropatich, MD1,2, Daisy T. DeWitt, MBA1, Captain Sean D. Kennedy, MS1
  1 Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine Directorate, Washington, DC; 2 United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Expense Comparison Of A Telemedicine Practice Versus A Traditional Practice (130KB)
  Gail Barker, MBA, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD, Kevin K. McNeill, PhD, Bonnie Schellenberg, Ronald S. Weinstein, MD
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, Tucson, AZ

• Important Steps For Designing A Successful Business Plan (1.37MB)
  Jolene Davidson, MPT, Mark Hakel, PhD, CCC-SLP, Sharon Flaherty
  Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Lincoln, NE

• An Arizona Clinical Encounters Costing Model For Telemedicine Services (165KB)
  Kevin M. McNeill, PhD, Gail P. Barker, BA, Ronald S. Weinstein, MD
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Telemedicine In The Workplace Can Increase Productivity And Reduce Costs (1.24MB)
  Ben G. Raimer, MD1, Scott A. Bonin1, Scott M. Hermstein, MS1, Harry B. Kelso, MD2, S.F. Viegas, MD1
  1University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 2American National Insurance Company, Galveston, TX

• Data Sharing In Store-And-Forward Telemedicine Evaluation Of Diabetic Retinopathy Information In A Diabetes Center (288KB)
  Helen K. Li, MD1, Muhammad F. Walji, BS2, Fannie E. Smith, MD, PhD3
  1Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 2Department of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX; 3Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• The Metamorphosis Of Telemedicine As An Enabling Technology (75.5KB)
  Jay H. Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI
  The Global Telemedicine Group/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, McLean, VA

• Developing A Reimbursement Model For Urban Based Telemedicine Services (244KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD, Gary C. Doolittle, MD, Ashley Spaulding
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Telehealth Deployment Research (108MB)
  Jack Corley, David Bradford, MD, Denis Dorsey, MD, Dale Goins, Joe Jones, Paul Lane, Ravi Raman
  Advanced Technology Institute, N. Charleston, SC

• Women's Health Care Via Telemedicine (677KB)
  Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP
  Arizona Cancer Center, Arizona Medical Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Cruising With Telemedicine (1.37MB)
  Ben G. Raimer, MD, Scott M. Hermstein, MS, Jake G. Angelo, Scott A. Bonin
  University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• Sustaining A Telerehabilitation Program (4.15MB)
  Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, MHA1, Pamela G. Clark, PhD2
  1INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma City, OK; 2INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center, Oklahoma City, OK

• Designing And Applying The Clinical Operations (2.0MB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Defining And Implementing A Strategic Direction (880KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Business Plan Development And Execution (380KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• The Telemedicine Network As The Engine For Sustainability (839KB)
  Kevin M. McNeill, PhD, Gail P. Barker, BA
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Sustaining Telemedicine In Alaska (8.59MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, Chris Patricoski, MD, Linda Lekness, RN, MS, MBA
  Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK

• "Best Practices" For Implementing An Urban County Tele-Ultrasound Project (1.70MB)
  G. Sealy Massingill, MD, FACOG
  North Texas Affiliated Medical Group; Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fort Worth, TX

• Follow-Up Burn Care Utilizing Telemedicine (1.04MB)
  John Griswold, MD, Don B. McBeath, BA, Shannon Kennedy Kirkland, MBA
  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

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Cardiology

• Internet 2 for Transmission of Cineangiograms (3.46MB)
  Vivian L. West, RN, MBA, Joseph Babb, MD, David C. Balch, MA
  East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

• The Virtual Homecare Visit: Using Broadband Connectivity to Support Remote Homecare Delivery (2.05MB)
  Sandra Lowenstein, MA1, Richard Scott, BSc (Hons), PhD2
  1March Networks, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; 2Telehealth Research Laboratory, University of Calgary

• Informatics For The National Heart Attack Alert Program (7.57MB)
  Steven B. Karch, MD1, Sandra Young, RN1, Rahul Doshi, MD2, David Slattery, MD3
  1 City of Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, Las Vegas, NV; 2 Cardiovascular Associates of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV; 3 University Medical Center of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

• Digital Stethoscopes For Real-Time And Store-and-Forward Telecardiology Applications (324KB)
  Earl W. Ferguson, MD, PhD1,2, Alan J. Van Nevel, PhD3, Larry Peterson3
  1 Southern Sierra Medical Clinic, Ridgecrest, CA; 2 Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, Ridgecrest, CA; 3 Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA

• The Virtual Homecare Visit: Using Broadband Connectivity to Support Remote Homecare Delivery (2.05MB)
  Sandra Lowenstein, MA1, Richard Scott, BSc (Hons), PhD2
  1March Networks, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; 2Telehealth Research Laboratory, University of Calgary

• Telemedicine: Making A Difference In Home Care CHF Patients (237KB)
  Rhonda Chetney, RN, MS, Patricia Strickland, RN, BSN, Linda Jordan, RN
  Sentara Home Care Services, Chesapeake, VA

• An Integrated, Sustainable And Scaleable Patient Triaging System (1.81MB)
  Krisan S. Palmer, RN1, Tim Kaufman2, Richard Scott, PhD3, Robert G. MacDonald, MD1
  1Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; 2Second Opinion Software, Gardena, CA; 3Alberta University, Alberta, Canada

Correctional Care

• Telemedicine In A Statewide Juvenile Corrections Program (8.4MB)
  Thomas Winchell, MPA, Wayne A. Wilbright, MD, MS, Michael Felton, MD
  Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
  

• Correctional Care in Southwest Virginia (136KB)
  Lisa Kaplowitz, MD
  Ambulatory Care Services and Telemedicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
  
  
  
• UTMB Correctional Managed Care: Digital Medical Services (1.41MB)
  Leon Clements, MBA, Oscar W. Boultinghouse, MD, Glenn Hammack, OD, MSHI, Michael Davis, MD, Byron Brooks, MD, Harry Davis, MD
  University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
  

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Dermatology

• DermLite FOTO: A New Epiluminescence Skin Imaging Device For Teledermatology (12.0MB)
  Daniel Mark Siegel, MD, MS1, Nizar A. Mullani BS2
  1 State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; 2 3Gen LLC, Sugar Land, TX

• Determining Prevalence Of Skin Diseases In Gulf-War Veterans Using Teledermatology
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  Hon S. Pak, MD1, John Whited, MD2, Seth Eisen, MD3
  1 Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center, San Antonio, TX; 2 University of Durham VA, Durham, NC; 3 Washington University, Washington, MO

• Teledermatology's Impact On Time To Diagnosis And Treatment Initiation (48KB)
  John D. Whited, MD, MHS1, Eugene Z. Oddone, MD, MHSc1, Russell P. Hall, MD2, David L. Simel, MD, MHS1, Marjorie E. Foy, MA1, Laurie E. Marbrey1, Steve C. Grambow, PhD1, Tara K. Dudley, MS1
  1Institute for Clinical and Epidemiologic Research, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2Duke University Division of Dermatology and the VA Medical Center Dermatology Service, Durham, NC

• Teledermatology As The Core To Modernising Service Delivery In The NHS (5.57MB)
  John F. Navein, MB, ChB, MRCGP, DCH, DTM&H, LRCP, MRCS1, Ian Jardine2
  1West Surrey Health Authority; 2The Telemedicine Alliance; Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, England

• Technology Enhanced Peer Review: A Quality Of Care Tool (236KB)
  Thomas Hirota, MD1, Angela Dingbaum, RN, MPH2, Jeanette Rasche, MS2
  1Moncrief Army Community Hospital, Fort Jackson, SC; 2Center for Total Access, Fort Gordon, GA

• Technology Enhanced Peer Review: An Effective Framework For Utilization (2.31MB)
  Jeanette Rasche, MS, Bill Bowman, BS, Angela Dingbaum, RN, MPH
  Center for Total Access, Fort Gordon, GA

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Distance Learning

• Multimedia Medical Education (948KB)
  Eric Menn1, Sherwood Hughes1, Robert Goldszer, MD2, Molly O'Neill2, John Stakes, MD3, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD1
  1Partners Telemedicine, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA; 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

• Teaching Telemedicine To Community Health Aides In Alaska (571KB)
  Andrew Tooyak, Jr., CHA/P, Darlene Hoff, RN, Chris Patricoski, MD
  Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network, Anchorage, AK

• Image Quality And Viewing Preferences For Telemedicine & Distance Learning (5.04MB)
  Michael Caputo, MS1, Jef Gamblee1, Peter Callas, PhD1, Michael Ricci, MD2
  1University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT; 2Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT

• Utilization Of Interactive Health Communications Among Public Health Professionals (51KB)
  Charles Maynard, PhD1, Pamela Whitten, PhD2, Robert Glandon3, Rebecca Henry, PhD2, Mark Notman, PhD2
  1Center for Advancing Community Health; 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; 3Ingham Public Health

E-Health

• Transitioning To E-Health: Not Just A Name Change (338KB)
  Maria C. Horton, CDR, NC, USN, (MSN), David L. Felton, LT, NC, USN, (MS), Michael D. Azar, MS
  National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

• Student Mental Health Outreach Using Online Support
  Iverson C. Bell, Jr., MD
  Morehouse College, Morehouse School for Medicine, Atlanta, GA

• Virtual Reality In Healthcare (3.77MB)
  Peter M. Yellowlees, MD, BSc, MB, BS, FRANZCP, MRC, MAPsS, MRACM
  Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

• Results Of The MyCareTeam Feasibility Study (182KB)
  Betty A. Levine, MS, Karen E. Smith, MD, Ming-Jye T. Hu, MS, Adil Alaoui, MS, Stephen Clement, MD, Seong K. Mun, PhD
  Georgetown University, Washington, DC

• Internet Enabled Neuropsychological Assessment (3.39MB)
  MAJ Mark R. Baggett, PhD1, Mark P. Kelly, PhD1, CPT Daniel K. Christensen, PhD1, LTC Gregory A. Gahm, PhD2, Robert L. Kane, PhD3,4, CPT John D. Via, PhD5, CPT Victoria M. Ingram, PsyD1, Linda Whitby, MD1, Zhengi Y. Sun1, Daisy T. Dewitt1, Lisa M. Korenman, MA1,
  1Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; 2Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA; 3VA Maryland Heath Care System, College Park, MD; 4University of Maryland, College Park, MD; 5Fort Sam, Houston, TX

• Keeping The Patient Connected To Their Healthcare Team Through Portable Telehealth Devices (399KB)
  Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA1, Judith Hicks, MS2, Milton Paul, MD2, Harri Okkonen, MS3
  1Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc., Northbrook, IL; 2Focused Health Solutions, Northbrook, IL; 3New Lifechart, Northbrook, IL

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Web-Based Electronic Health Portal (2.63MB)
  Carl E. Boocks, Zhengyi Sun, MS, Thomas R. Boal, PhD, COL Ronald K. Poropatich, MD, Kevin C. Abbott, MD
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Multimedia Medical Education (948KB)
  Eric Menn1, Sherwood Hughes1, Robert Goldszer, MD2, Molly O'Neill2, John Stakes, MD3, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD1
  1Partners Telemedicine, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA; 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

• Utilization Of Interactive Health Communications Among Public Health Professionals (51KB)
  Charles Maynard, PhD1, Pamela Whitten, PhD2, Robert Glandon3, Rebecca Henry, PhD2, Mark Notman, PhD2
  1Center for Advancing Community Health; 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; 3Ingham Public Health

• Telemedicine Under HIPAA (936KB)
  Peter J. Haigh, MA
  Verizon Health Industry, Pittsburgh, PA

• Protecting Privacy In Telehealth (295KB)
  Archie D. Andrews, MS1, Lynn Crane, MBA1, Jack Corley, MS1, Dena Puskin, ScD2, Samuel G. Burgiss, PhD3, Nina M. Antoniotti, RN, MBA, PhD-C4, Joanne Kumekawa, MBA2
  1Advanced Technology Institute, N. Charleston, SC; 2Office for the Advancement of Telehealth/HRSA/DHHS, Rockville, MD; 3University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN; 4Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI

• Defining And Implementing A Strategic Direction (880KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Designing And Applying The Clinical Operations (2.0MB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Business Plan Development And Execution (380KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Global Healthcare Systems, Complete Telemedicine Solutions And The Private Health Network (266KB)
  Peter M. Yellowlees, MD, BSc, MB, BS, FRANZCP, MRC, MAPsS, MRACM
  Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

• AFHCAN Software: Designed To Improve Health Care (6.62MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, MCSE, Chris Patricoski, MD, Darren Coolidge
  Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK

• Telemedicine Supporting A Continuum Of Care Program For Respiratory Patients (234KB)
  Albert Alonso, PhD, MD1, Josep Roca, PhD, MD1, José Antonio Montero1, Paula de Toledo2, Francisco Del Pozo2, Silvia Jimenez2
  1Corporació Sanitària Clínic, Barcelona, Spain; 2Telemedicine and Biomedical Engineering Group, The Chronic Consortium, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

• An Internet-Based Application For Homebound Patients With Leg Wounds (111KB)
  Carol A. Baer, PhD, RN1, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD1,2
  1Partners Telemedicine, Partners Health Care System System, Boston, MA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

• Internet Medical Records: Benefits, Risks And Proposed Pediatric Standards (2.01MB)
  Joseph Schneider, MD, MBA1, Danny Kofos, MD2
  1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas, San Antonio, TX

• Are Senior People Ready For Telehealth Services? (345KB)
  Lutz Kubitschke, MA, Tobias Hüsing, MA, Karl Stroetmann, PhD, MBA, Velitchka Stroetmann, MD, PhD
  empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany

• Technology Enhanced Peer Review: An Effective Framework For Utilization (2.31MB)
  Jeanette Rasche, MS, Bill Bowman, BS, Angela Dingbaum, RN, MPH
  Center for Total Access, Fort Gordon, GA

• Domestic/International Telemedicine Using Simultaneous Streaming Media, H.320, H.323 Via Inter/Intranet (1.0MB)
  Thomas A. Key, CCNA, BS1, Raul C. Ribeiro, MD1, Rich House1, Dan Huss1, Bassem I. Razzouk, MD1, Franscisco Pedrosa, MD2, Edson L. Michalkiewicz, MD, PhD, MBA3, Edilson Alexandre2
  1St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; 2Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco (IMIP), Recife, Brazil; 3Federal University Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil

• Behviorial Health Window Of Opportunity (142KB)
  Holly E. Russo, RN, MS1, Marlene Maheau, PhD2, Harvey Komet, MD3
  1Telemedcine Solutions/Telehealth Works, Juno Beach, FL; 2Alliant University & Selfhelpmagazine.com, San Diego, CA; 3Cyber-Care, Boynton Beach, FL

• Proof Of Concept Remote Testing And Interpreting (6.70MB)
  James Bates Ph.D., Barbara R. Demuth, RN, MSN, Kathy Barr-Howanek, Lori Hutchison, Thomas A. Cook, MOTR/L
  CERMUSA at Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA

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Evaluation & Research

• Keeping The Patient Connected To Their Healthcare Team Through Portable Telehealth Devices (399KB)
  Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA1, Judith Hicks, MS2, Milton Paul, MD2, Harri Okkonen, MS3
  1Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc., Northbrook, IL; 2Focused Health Solutions, Northbrook, IL; 3New Lifechart, Northbrook, IL

• Teledermatology's Impact On Time To Diagnosis And Treatment Initiation (48KB)
  John D. Whited, MD, MHS1, Eugene Z. Oddone, MD, MHSc1, Russell P. Hall, MD2, David L. Simel, MD, MHS1, Marjorie E. Foy, MA1, Laurie E. Marbrey1, Steve C. Grambow, PhD1, Tara K. Dudley, MS1
  1Institute for Clinical and Epidemiologic Research, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2Duke University Division of Dermatology and the VA Medical Center Dermatology Service, Durham, NC

• Telemedicine In The Workplace Can Increase Productivity And Reduce Costs (1.24MB)
  Ben G. Raimer, MD1, Scott A. Bonin1, Scott M. Hermstein, MS1, Harry B. Kelso, MD2, S.F. Viegas, MD1
  1University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 2American National Insurance Company, Galveston, TX

• Performance Measurement Of Telemedicine Programs: Lessons Learned From HRSA (1.98MB)
  Dena S. Puskin, ScD1, Adan Cajina, MS1, Andrea Hassol, MSPH2
  1Health Resources and Services Admininstration, Rockville, MD; 2Abt Associates, Rockville, MD

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Web-Based Electronic Health Portal (2.63MB)
  Carl E. Boocks, Zhengyi Sun, MS, Thomas R. Boal, PhD, COL Ronald K. Poropatich, MD, Kevin C. Abbott, MD
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Developing A Reimbursement Model For Urban Based Telemedicine Services (244KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD, Gary C. Doolittle, MD, Ashley Spaulding
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Women's Health Care Via Telemedicine (677KB)
  Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP
  Arizona Cancer Center, Arizona Medical Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Telehospice In Michigan And Kansas: Year Two Study Results (91.5KB)
  Pamela Whitten, PhD1, Gary C. Doolittle, MD2
  1Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; 2University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS

• Anticoagulation Patient Acceptance Of Self-Testing And Remote Interactive Monitoring (4.23MB)
  COL Jennifer L. Calagan, PhD, MD, Susan Thomas, CRNP, Thomas Bigott, BS, COL Marina N. Vernalis, DO
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Protecting Privacy In Telehealth (295KB)
  Archie D. Andrews, MS1, Lynn Crane, MBA1, Jack Corley, MS1, Dena Puskin, ScD2, Samuel G. Burgiss, PhD3, Nina M. Antoniotti, RN, MBA, PhD-C4, Joanne Kumekawa, MBA2
  1Advanced Technology Institute, N. Charleston, SC; 2Office for the Advancement of Telehealth/HRSA/DHHS, Rockville, MD; 3University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN; 4Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI

• Technology Enhanced Peer Review: A Quality Of Care Tool (236KB)
  Thomas Hirota, MD1, Angela Dingbaum, RN, MPH2, Jeanette Rasche, MS2
  1Moncrief Army Community Hospital, Fort Jackson, SC; 2Center for Total Access, Fort Gordon, GA

• Clinical Outcomes: The Impact Of Telemedicine (770KB)
  Thomas S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH, James P. Marcin, MD, MPH
  University of California, Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA

• Ethical Dilemmas In Telemedicine: Balancing Cost, Quality, And Access (346KB)
  Dena S. Puskin, ScD1, Carolyn Hutcherson, MS, RN2
  1Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, MD; 2Center for Telemedicine Law, Washington, DC

• Video Telemedicine With Computer Interface In Stroke Consultation (489KB)
  MAJ John Y. Choi, MD, MC1, COL Ronald K. Poropatich, MD, MC1, Gabriele Feolo, RN, MSN1, LTC Edward Lucci, MD, MC1, Lee Schwamm, MD2, LTC Robert Labutta, MD, MC1, CPT Kenneth Kudelko, MD, MC1, Ernst Hoffstetter1 1Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; 2 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

• Pacific Island Health Care Project: Update 2002 (6.41MB)
  COL Donald A. Person, MD
  Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

• Proof Of Concept Remote Testing And Interpreting (6.70MB)
  James Bates Ph.D., Barbara R. Demuth, RN, MSN, Kathy Barr-Howanek, Lori Hutchison, Thomas A. Cook, MOTR/L
  CERMUSA at Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA

• Follow-Up Burn Care Utilizing Telemedicine (1.04MB)
  John Griswold, MD, Don B. McBeath, BA, Shannon Kennedy Kirkland, MBA
  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

• Outcome Measurement Of Telerehab Consultations (75.5KB)
  Jennine L. Speier, MS, MD1, Lynda Savard RPT1, Alexandra Borstad, RPT1, Timothy Bowman, MBA1, Susan Palsbo, PhD2
  1Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Services, Minneapolis, MN; 2National Rehabilitation Hospital Center for Health & Disability Research, MedStar Research Institute, Washington, DC

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Financial Cost & Benefits

• Videoconference Business Case: Moving From Pilot To Ongoing & Expanding Service (514KB)
  Courtney Trautman1, Joseph L. Ternullo, CPA, Esq. 1, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD1,2
  1Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA; 2Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

• Expense Comparison Of A Telemedicine Practice Versus A Traditional Practice (130KB)
  Gail Barker, MBA, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD, Kevin K. McNeill, PhD, Bonnie Schellenberg, Ronald S. Weinstein, MD
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, Tucson, AZ

• An Arizona Clinical Encounters Costing Model For Telemedicine Services (165KB)
  Kevin M. McNeill, PhD, Gail P. Barker, BA, Ronald S. Weinstein, MD
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Assessing Costs For Telemedicine Diabetic Retinopathy Surveillance (3.87MB)
  Mary G. Lawrence, MD, MPH1,2, Sandra K. Schmunk, BS, MA, HHSA1, Gary S. Michalec, BS, CRA, COA1
  1Veterans Affairs Upper Midwest Network, Minneapolis, MN; 2University of Minnesota, Department of Ophthalmology, Minneapolis, MN

• Cost-Benefit Analysis Of A Telemedicine Program In Rural Arkansas (1.01MB)
  Ann B. Bynum, EdD, Cathy Irwin, PhD, RNPCS
  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

• Economic Assessment Of Delivery Models For A Tele Homemonitoring Service (1.33MB)
  Karl A. Stroetmann, PhD, MBA1, Velitchka Stroetmann, MD, PhD1, Chris Westerteicher, Dipl. Ing.2, Lutz Kubitschke, MA1
  1empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany; 2Philips, Böblingen, Germany

• Performance Measurement Of Telemedicine Programs: Lessons Learned From HRSA (1.98MB)
  Dena S. Puskin, ScD1, Adan Cajina, MS1, Andrea Hassol, MSPH2
  1Health Resources and Services Admininstration, Rockville, MD; 2Abt Associates, Rockville, MD

• Telemedicine In The Workplace Can Increase Productivity And Reduce Costs (1.24MB)
  Ben G. Raimer, MD1, Scott A. Bonin1, Scott M. Hermstein, MS1, Harry B. Kelso, MD2, S.F. Viegas, MD1
  1University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 2American National Insurance Company, Galveston, TX

• Multi Perspective Comprehensive Evaluation For Tele-Palliative Care: Cost-Minimization Analysis (91KB)
  Noriaki Aoki, MD, MS1, Sachiko Ohta, MD, PhD2, Keiko Toyomasu, RN, MS3, Kenji Hira, MD, PhD4, Kim Dunn, MD, PhD4, William J. Schull, PhD4, J. Robert Beck5, Tetsuzo Kaneshige, MD, PhD2, Ikuko Iwai, RN3, Tsuguya Fukui, MD, PhD, MPH6
  1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Okayama Central Hokancho Hospital, Okayama, Japan; 3St. Luke's College of Nursing, Tokyo, Japan; 4Schull Institute, Houston, TX; 5Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA; 6Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

• PCOST: Portable, Commercial, Open-Standards Telemedicine (13.9MB)
  CDR Yosuke Komatsu, MD, PhD, Christian Macedonia, MD, Randy Spears, Brant Marshall, Clifford Cloonan, MD, Craig Llewellyn, MD, MPH
  Uniformed Services University (USUHS), Bethesda, MD

• Telemedicine Healthcare For Pacific Islanders: A Positive Return On Investment (21.4MB)
  COL Donald A. Person, MD
  Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

• The Telemedicine Network As The Engine For Sustainability (839KB)
  Kevin M. McNeill, PhD, Gail P. Barker, BA
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• A Statewide Infrastructure Investment To Foster Development Of Practical Telemedicine (3.67MB)
  Robert J. Tessen, MS
  Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board, Austin, TX

• "Best Practices" For Implementing An Urban County Tele-Ultrasound Project (1.70MB)
  G. Sealy Massingill, MD, FACOG
  North Texas Affiliated Medical Group; Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fort Worth, TX

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Homecare/Remote Monitoring

• Economic Assessment Of Delivery Models For A Tele Homemonitoring Service (1.33MB)
  Karl A. Stroetmann, PhD, MBA1, Velitchka Stroetmann, MD, PhD1, Chris Westerteicher, Dipl. Ing.2, Lutz Kubitschke, MA1
  1empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany; 2Philips, Böblingen, Germany

• Keeping The Patient Connected To Their Healthcare Team Through Portable Telehealth Devices (399KB)
  Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA1, Judith Hicks, MS2, Milton Paul, MD2, Harri Okkonen, MS3
  1Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc., Northbrook, IL; 2Focused Health Solutions, Northbrook, IL; 3New Lifechart, Northbrook, IL

• Pressure/Motion Monitoring For Remote Delivery Of Skin Care To Veterans (1.77MB)
  Eric E. Sabelman, PhD, David L. Jaffe, MS, H.F.M. Van der Loos, PhD
  VA Rehabilitation R&D Center, Palo Alto, CA

• The Virtual Homecare Visit: Using Broadband Connectivity to Support Remote Homecare Delivery (2.05MB)
  Sandra Lowenstein, MA1, Richard Scott, BSc (Hons), PhD2
  1March Networks, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; 2Telehealth Research Laboratory, University of Calgary

• Results Of The MyCareTeam Feasibility Study (182KB)
  Betty A. Levine, MS, Karen E. Smith, MD, Ming-Jye T. Hu, MS, Adil Alaoui, MS, Stephen Clement, MD, Seong K. Mun, PhD
  Georgetown University, Washington, DC

• Multi Perspective Comprehensive Evaluation For Tele-Palliative Care: Cost-Minimization Analysis (91KB)
  Noriaki Aoki, MD, MS1, Sachiko Ohta, MD, PhD2, Keiko Toyomasu, RN, MS3, Kenji Hira, MD, PhD4, Kim Dunn, MD, PhD4, William J. Schull, PhD4, J. Robert Beck5, Tetsuzo Kaneshige, MD, PhD2, Ikuko Iwai, RN3, Tsuguya Fukui, MD, PhD, MPH6
  1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Okayama Central Hokancho Hospital, Okayama, Japan; 3St. Luke's College of Nursing, Tokyo, Japan; 4Schull Institute, Houston, TX; 5Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA; 6Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

• Telehospice In Michigan And Kansas: Year Two Study Results (91.5KB)
  Pamela Whitten, PhD1, Gary C. Doolittle, MD2
  1Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; 2University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS

• Telemedicine: Making A Difference In Home Care CHF Patients (237KB)
  Rhonda Chetney, RN, MS, Patricia Strickland, RN, BSN, Linda Jordan, RN
  Sentara Home Care Services, Chesapeake, VA

• Anticoagulation Patient Acceptance Of Self-Testing And Remote Interactive Monitoring (4.23MB)
  COL Jennifer L. Calagan, PhD, MD, Susan Thomas, CRNP, Thomas Bigott, BS, COL Marina N. Vernalis, DO
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Gait And Activity Analysis With A Wireless Home Telecare System (4.76MB)
  Laurence Wilson, PhD1, Briony Doyle, MBiomedE1, Michael Dadd, MEngSc1, Marcus Gunaratnam, MB BS FRACP2
  1CSIRO, Sydney, Australia; 2Ryde Hospital, Sydney, Australia

• Defining And Implementing A Strategic Direction (880KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Designing And Applying The Clinical Operations (2.0MB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Business Plan Development And Execution (380KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• An Internet-Based Application For Homebound Patients With Leg Wounds (111KB)
  Carol A. Baer, PhD, RN1, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD1,2
  1Partners Telemedicine, Partners Health Care System System, Boston, MA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

• Telehomecare Requirements Elicitation - On The Road To Telehomecare Interoperability Standards (128KB)
  Pamela D. Brockway, BSc, Ralph C. Ulmer, CAM, PMgr, Dale W. Bergman, PEng, Peter M. Sargious, MD, MPH, FRCPC
  Alberta Research Council, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Telemedicine Supporting A Continuum Of Care Program For Respiratory Patients (234KB)
  Albert Alonso, PhD, MD1, Josep Roca, PhD, MD1, José Antonio Montero1, Paula de Toledo2, Francisco Del Pozo2, Silvia Jimenez2
  1Corporació Sanitària Clínic, Barcelona, Spain; 2Telemedicine and Biomedical Engineering Group, The Chronic Consortium, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

• The IDEATel Project: Up And Running (4.57MB)
  Justin Starren, MD, PhD1, Steven Shea, MD2, Ruth S. Weinstock, MD, PhD3,4, Paul E. Knudson, MD3, Philip C. Morin, MS3, Jeanne Teresi, EdD, PhD5,6, Douglas Holmes, PhD5, Walter Palmas, MD1, Lesley Field, RN, MSN1, Robin Goland, MD7, George Hripcsak, MD1, Charlyn Hilliman1, Mohammad Ashraf1, David Liss8
  1Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY; 2Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY; 3Joslin Diabetes Center and Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, SUNY Upstate Medical University, New York, NY; 4VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY; 5Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Bronx, NY; 6Columbia University Stroud Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY; 7Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY; 8Office of Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

• "Virtually Healthy" Integrating Technology And Coordination; A Two Year Success Story (2.16MB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA
  VISN 8 Home & Community Care Service Line, Department of Veterans Affairs, Lake City, FL

• Are Senior People Ready For Telehealth Services? (345KB)
  Lutz Kubitschke, MA, Tobias Hüsing, MA, Karl Stroetmann, PhD, MBA, Velitchka Stroetmann, MD, PhD
  empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany

• Impact Of Telehomecare On Patient Outcomes: Initial Results (437KB)
  Michiel Veen1, Stuart M. Speedie, PhD2, Stanley M. Finkelstein, PhD2, Jan Marie Lundgren, BS2, George Demiris, PhD2
  1IPHIE Visit Scholar, University of Amsterdam; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

• Making The Connection: Care Coordination With Technology Improves Self Care (922KB)
  Patricia A. Ryan, MS, RN
  VISN 8 Home and Community Care Service Line, Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Acceptance of Telehealth Technology By Family Caregivers Of Stroke Patients In The Home Setting (362KB)
  Kathleen M. Buckley, PhD, RN, Binh Q. Tran, PhD, Cheryl Prandoni, RN, MSN
  The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

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Homeland Security/Disaster Relief

• "SMART" Solutions For Anti-Terrorism And Homeland Security Operations Support (3.72MB)
  Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Conrad Clyburn, MS, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Applying the Forward Deployed Digital Medical Treatment Facility To Anti-Terrorism Operations (14.2MB)
  Tony Story, MS, Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Integrating Your Telemedicine Network Into Existing Local Disaster Response Plans (268KB)
  Beth McCullers, MHA1, Barry Moore, MA2
  1 University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; 2 Shelby County Health Department, Memphis, TN

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine: Addressing Global/Homeland Security Needs (6.10MB)
  Colonel Ronald K. Poropatich, MD1,2, Daisy T. DeWitt, MBA1, Captain Sean D. Kennedy, MS1
  1 Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine Directorate, Washington, DC; 2 United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Health Access And Alert Network (HAANet) Of Texas (2.61MB)
  Robert M. Brecht, PhD, Jim Barrett, EdD
  E-Health Solutions, Inc., Houston, TX

• Impact Of Health Telematics On Mass Casualty Response (MASCAR) (1.37MB)
  Tim Lange, MD, Thomas Benner, Michael Nerlich, MD
  University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany

• Medical Modeling To Support Anti-Terrorism & Homeland Security Operations ( 2.58MB)
  Tommy J. Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Gerry Moses, PhD, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD
  
  

• Medical Events and Distant Care - Lessons from Space (13.3MB)
  Arnuald E. Nicogossian, MD, MS
  Senior Advisor on Health, NASA Headquarters, George Mason University

• Telemedicine Applications in Remote and Extreme Environments (5.63MB)
  Charles R. Doarn, MBA
  Executive Director, Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Medical Support with Telemedicine - The Antarctic Experience (3.42MB)
  Desmond Lugg, MD
  Chief, Medicine of Extreme Environments, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, NASA Headquarters

• Disaster Mitigation in an Occupational Setting (24.5KB)
  Richard S. Williams, MD, MS
  Chief Medical Officer, Office of the Chief Medial Officer, NASA Headquarters

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Human Factors

• Image Quality And Viewing Preferences For Telemedicine & Distance Learning (5.04MB)
  Michael Caputo, MS1, Jef Gamblee1, Peter Callas, PhD1, Michael Ricci, MD2
  1University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT; 2Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT

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International

• Telemedicine Healthcare For Pacific Islanders: A Positive Return On Investment (21.4MB)
  COL Donald A. Person, MD
  Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

• Global Healthcare Systems, Complete Telemedicine Solutions And The Private Health Network (266KB)
  Peter M. Yellowlees, MD, BSc, MB, BS, FRANZCP, MRC, MAPsS, MRACM
  Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

• Telerehabitation In The Pacific Rim (6.85MB)
  Alex Borstad, PT, NCS, Timothy Bowman, MBA
  Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Services, Minneapolis, MN

• Are Senior People Ready For Telehealth Services? (345KB)
  Lutz Kubitschke, MA, Tobias Hüsing, MA, Karl Stroetmann, PhD, MBA, Velitchka Stroetmann, MD, PhD
  empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany

• Pacific Island Health Care Project: Update 2002 (6.41MB)
  COL Donald A. Person, MD
  Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

• Telemedicine Applications In The Remote Ecuadorian Rainforest (5.63MB)
  Charles Doarn, MBA, Stephen Cone, MD, Ronald Merrell, MD
  Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

• The Cuban National Telemedicine Program (883KB)
  David Krasnow, OD, PhD, MPH, MBA1, Eng. Enrique Landeiro2
  1Vista Health Care Group, Beverly Hills, CA; 2Ministry of Health, Republic of Cuba, Cuba

• Village Leap: Creating A Sustainable Telemedicine Model In An Extreme Environment
  (1.28MB)
  Bernard Krisher1, Kathleen Kelleher2, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD2
  1VIllage Leap Program, Boston, MA; 2Partners Telemedicine, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA

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Legal Policy & Regulatory

• Security Policy Development and Implementation in Complex Enterprises (40.5KB)
  Kristen Sostrom1,2, Jeff Collmann, PhD2,3
  1 IMSI, Arlington, VA; 2 United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD; 3 Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Equipping Military Treatment Facilities with Risk Information Management Resources (960KB)
  Willie E. Wright, MBA
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Performance Measurement Of Telemedicine Programs: Lessons Learned From HRSA (1.98MB)
  Dena S. Puskin, ScD1, Adan Cajina, MS1, Andrea Hassol, MSPH2
  1Health Resources and Services Admininstration, Rockville, MD; 2Abt Associates, Rockville, MD

• Developing A Reimbursement Model For Urban Based Telemedicine Services (244KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD, Gary C. Doolittle, MD, Ashley Spaulding
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Government Regulation Of Telemedicine Software And Hardware (1.74MB)
  Robert J. Waters, Esq.
  Arent Fox Plotkin Kintner & Kahn, Washington, DC

• Medicaid Reimbursement Opportunities For Rehabilitation Services Provided At A Distance (69.5KB)
  Michael J. Rosen, PhD1, Susan E. Palsbo, PhD2, Donal E. Lauderdale, BSCS, MSE1, Anna Cole, BBE3
  1National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC; 2National Rehabilitation Hospital, Center for Health and Disability Research, Washington, DC; 3The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

• Telerehabilitation Payment Policy: Lessons Learned And To Be Learned (333KB)
  Dena S. Puskin, ScD1, Donal E. Lauderdale, BSCS, MSE2, Lynda Savard, MS, PT3
  1Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, HRSA, Rockville, MD; 2National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC; 3Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Services, Minneapolis, MN

• Protecting Privacy In Telehealth (295KB)
  Archie D. Andrews, MS1, Lynn Crane, MBA1, Jack Corley, MS1, Dena Puskin, ScD2, Samuel G. Burgiss, PhD3, Nina M. Antoniotti, RN, MBA, PhD-C4, Joanne Kumekawa, MBA2
  1Advanced Technology Institute, N. Charleston, SC; 2Office for the Advancement of Telehealth/HRSA/DHHS, Rockville, MD; 3University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN; 4Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI

• Telemedicine Under HIPAA (936KB)
  Peter J. Haigh, MA
  Verizon Health Industry, Pittsburgh, PA

• Telemedicine: Regulation, Legislation & Policy (2.39MB)
  Robert J. Waters, Esq.
  Center for Telemedicine Law, Washington, DC

• Developing A Statewide Broadband Infrastructure To Support Clinical And Educational Tele-Services In Kansas: An Overview Of Political And Technical Challenges (888KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Ethical Dilemmas In Telemedicine: Balancing Cost, Quality, And Access (346KB)
  Dena S. Puskin, ScD1, Carolyn Hutcherson, MS, RN2
  1Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, MD; 2Center for Telemedicine Law, Washington, DC
  
  
• JCAHO Update : Telemedicine(Learning from the Field) (69.5KB)
  Robert Wise, MD
  Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Chicago, IL

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Mental Health

• Internet Enabled Neuropsychological Assessment (3.39MB)
  MAJ Mark R. Baggett, PhD1, Mark P. Kelly, PhD1, CPT Daniel K. Christensen, PhD1, LTC Gregory A. Gahm, PhD2, Robert L. Kane, PhD3,4, CPT John D. Via, PhD5, CPT Victoria M. Ingram, PsyD1, Linda Whitby, MD1, Zhengi Y. Sun1, Daisy T. Dewitt1, Lisa M. Korenman, MA1,
  1Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; 2Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA; 3VA Maryland Heath Care System, College Park, MD; 4University of Maryland, College Park, MD; 5Fort Sam, Houston, TX

• Student Mental Health Outreach Using Online Support
  Iverson C. Bell, Jr., MD
  Morehouse College, Morehouse School for Medicine, Atlanta, GA

• Virtual Reality In Healthcare (3.77MB)
  Peter M. Yellowlees, MD, BSc, MB, BS, FRANZCP, MRC, MAPsS, MRACM
  Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

• A Comparison Of Innovation Adopters And Non-Adopters Within A Telemedicine Initiative: An Evaluation Of Innovation Attributes To Explain Telemedicine Diffusion (236KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD, Gary C. Doolittle, MD, Ashley Spaulding, Debbi Swirczynski
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Adolescent Telepsychiatry (579KB)
  Norman E. Alessi, MD, Gary Wautier, PhD
  University of Michigan Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

• Access And Outcomes Through The Michigan Telepsychiatry Project (38KB)
  Pamela Whitten, PhD1, Zora Ziazi, MA1, Linda Marion, MD2
  1Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; 2Lifeways, Jackson, MI

• Linkages For Increasing Access To Psychiatric Care In Rural MUA (0.98MB)
  Glenda Walker, RN, DSN1, Ben G. Raimer, MD2, Jeanette Hartshorn, PhD, RN, FAAN2, Nancy Speck, PhD2, Rowdy Stovall2
  1Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacagdoches, TX; 2University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• Web-Based Automated Mental Health Intake System (WAMHIS) (3.99MB)
  COL Ryo S. Chun, MD, LTC Steve Cozza, MD, Donna L. Edison, DO
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Behviorial Health Window Of Opportunity (142KB)
  Holly E. Russo, RN, MS1, Marlene Maheau, PhD2, Harvey Komet, MD3
  1Telemedcine Solutions/Telehealth Works, Juno Beach, FL; 2Alliant University & Selfhelpmagazine.com, San Diego, CA; 3Cyber-Care, Boynton Beach, FL

• Behavioral Telehealth For Pain Management: Efficacy And Consumer Satisfaction (1.50MB)
  Philip R. Appel, PhD, Joseph Bleiberg, PhD, John Noiseux, MS
  National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC

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Military

• PCOST: Portable, Commercial, Open-Standards Telemedicine (13.9MB)
  CDR Yosuke Komatsu, MD, PhD, Christian Macedonia, MD, Randy Spears, Brant Marshall, Clifford Cloonan, MD, Craig Llewellyn, MD, MPH
  Uniformed Services University (USUHS), Bethesda, MD

• Roadmap Of Military Needs In Biomedical Informatics (197KB)
  Jaques Reifman, PhD1, Gary Gilbert, PhD1, Lawrence Fagan, MD, PhD2, Richard Satava, MD3
  1United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD; 2Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 3Yale University, New Haven, CT

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Web-Based Electronic Health Portal (2.63MB)
  Carl E. Boocks, Zhengyi Sun, MS, Thomas R. Boal, PhD, COL Ronald K. Poropatich, MD, Kevin C. Abbott, MD
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• A Wireless Medical Enterprise Research Program For The U.S. Army (1.31MB)
  G. Rufus Sessions, PhD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook Development And Telemedicine Application (127KB)
  Gay D. Thompson, BSN, MPH, Pete Redmond
  Center for Total Access, Fort Gordon, GA

• The Evolution of Battlefield Medical Information System-Telemedicine (BMIS-T) (2.97MB)
  Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Mitra Rocca, MS, John Pajak, BSC, Christy Streeter, BS, COL Dean Calcagni, MD, Col Jeff Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• A COTS Tool For Rapidly Configuring And Integrating Telemedicine Systems (16.4MB)
  Gary R. Gilbert, PhD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD; University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business Artificial Intelligence in Managment Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine: Addressing Global/Homeland Security Needs (6.10MB)
  Colonel Ronald K. Poropatich, MD1,2, Daisy T. DeWitt, MBA1, Captain Sean D. Kennedy, MS1
  1 Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine Directorate, Washington, DC; 2 United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

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Ocular

• Assessing Costs For Telemedicine Diabetic Retinopathy Surveillance (3.87MB)
  Mary G. Lawrence, MD, MPH1,2, Sandra K. Schmunk, BS, MA, HHSA1, Gary S. Michalec, BS, CRA, COA1
  1Veterans Affairs Upper Midwest Network, Minneapolis, MN; 2University of Minnesota, Department of Ophthalmology, Minneapolis, MN

• Data Sharing In Store-And-Forward Telemedicine Evaluation Of Diabetic Retinopathy Information In A Diabetes Center (288KB)
  Helen K. Li, MD1, Muhammad F. Walji, BS2, Fannie E. Smith, MD, PhD3
  1Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 2Department of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX; 3Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• First Year Experience Using the DigiScope for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (12.1MB)
  Ingrid E. Zimmer-Galler, MD1, Susan Vitale, PhD, MHS1, Kevin Quinn, BS2, Torre Meeder, BS2, Ran Zeimer, PhD1
  1Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; 2EyeTel Imaging, Centreville, VA

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Operations & Management

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine: Addressing Global/Homeland Security Needs (6.10MB)
  Colonel Ronald K. Poropatich, MD1,2, Daisy T. DeWitt, MBA1, Captain Sean D. Kennedy, MS1
  1 Walter Reed Army Medical Center Telemedicine Directorate, Washington, DC; 2 United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Videoconference Business Case: Moving From Pilot To Ongoing & Expanding Service (514KB)
  Courtney Trautman1, Joseph L. Ternullo, CPA, Esq. 1, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD1,2
  1Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA; 2Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

• Transitioning To E-Health: Not Just A Name Change (338KB)
  Maria C. Horton, CDR, NC, USN, (MSN), David L. Felton, LT, NC, USN, (MS), Michael D. Azar, MS
  National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

• Data Sharing In Store-And-Forward Telemedicine Evaluation Of Diabetic Retinopathy Information In A Diabetes Center (288KB)
  Helen K. Li, MD1, Muhammad F. Walji, BS2, Fannie E. Smith, MD, PhD3
  1Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 2Department of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX; 3Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• An Arizona Clinical Encounters Costing Model For Telemedicine Services (165KB)
  Kevin M. McNeill, PhD, Gail P. Barker, BA, Ronald S. Weinstein, MD
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Telemedicine In The Workplace Can Increase Productivity And Reduce Costs (1.24MB)
  Ben G. Raimer, MD1, Scott A. Bonin1, Scott M. Hermstein, MS1, Harry B. Kelso, MD2, S.F. Viegas, MD1
  1University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 2American National Insurance Company, Galveston, TX

• Roadmap Of Military Needs In Biomedical Informatics (197KB)
  Jaques Reifman, PhD1, Gary Gilbert, PhD1, Lawrence Fagan, MD, PhD2, Richard Satava, MD3
  1United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD; 2Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 3Yale University, New Haven, CT

• Developing A Reimbursement Model For Urban Based Telemedicine Services (244KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD, Gary C. Doolittle, MD, Ashley Spaulding
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Cruising With Telemedicine (1.37MB)
  Ben G. Raimer, MD, Scott M. Hermstein, MS, Jake G. Angelo, Scott A. Bonin
  University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• Telehealth Deployment Research (108MB)
  Jack Corley, David Bradford, MD, Denis Dorsey, MD, Dale Goins, Joe Jones, Paul Lane, Ravi Raman
  Advanced Technology Institute, N. Charleston, SC

• The Metamorphosis Of Telemedicine As An Enabling Technology (75.5KB)
  Jay H. Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI
  The Global Telemedicine Group/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, McLean, VA

• Women's Health Care Via Telemedicine (677KB)
  Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP
  Arizona Cancer Center, Arizona Medical Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Sustaining A Telerehabilitation Program (4.15MB)
  Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, MHA1, Pamela G. Clark, PhD2
  1INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma City, OK; 2INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center, Oklahoma City, OK

• Defining And Implementing A Strategic Direction (880KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Designing And Applying The Clinical Operations (2.0MB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Business Plan Development And Execution (380KB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA, Patricia Ryan, MS, RN, Sarita Figueroa, MBA
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• The Telemedicine Network As The Engine For Sustainability (839KB)
  Kevin M. McNeill, PhD, Gail P. Barker, BA
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Sustaining Telemedicine In Alaska (8.59MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, Chris Patricoski, MD, Linda Lekness, RN, MS, MBA
  Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK

• Medical Modeling To Support Anti-Terrorism & Homeland Security Operations ( 2.58MB)
  Tommy J. Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Gerry Moses, PhD, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• "Best Practices" For Implementing An Urban County Tele-Ultrasound Project (1.70MB)
  G. Sealy Massingill, MD, FACOG
  North Texas Affiliated Medical Group; Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fort Worth, TX

• Internet 2 for Transmission of Cineangiograms (3.46MB)
  Vivian L. West, RN, MBA, Joseph Babb, MD, David C. Balch, MA
  East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

• Follow-Up Burn Care Utilizing Telemedicine (1.04MB)
  John Griswold, MD, Don B. McBeath, BA, Shannon Kennedy Kirkland, MBA
  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

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Pediatrics

• A Comparison Of Innovation Adopters And Non-Adopters Within A Telemedicine Initiative: An Evaluation Of Innovation Attributes To Explain Telemedicine Diffusion (236KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD, Gary C. Doolittle, MD, Ashley Spaulding, Debbi Swirczynski
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Adolescent Telepsychiatry (579KB)
  Norman E. Alessi, MD, Gary Wautier, PhD
  University of Michigan Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

• A Rural Approach To A Successful School-Telemedicine Program (2.69MB)
  Dan Dugi, Jr., MD
  Bohman Clinic and Cuero Community Hospital, Cuero, TX

• Internet Medical Records: Benefits, Risks And Proposed Pediatric Standards (2.01MB)
  Joseph Schneider, MD, MBA1, Danny Kofos, MD2
  1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas, San Antonio, TX

• Remote, Real-Time, Interactive, Internet-Based Videofluoroscopic Assessment Of Swallowing (16.4MB)
  Adrienne L. Perlman, PhD, Weerasak Witthawaskul, MS
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

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Radiology/Pathology Imaging

• A Digital Image Management System For Histopahtology Slides (14MB)
  Jim McGee, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci3, Margaret Varga, PhD1, Paul Ducksbury, PhD1, John Machar1, Rudolf Hanka, PhD2, Peter Somol, PhD2
  1QinetiQ, Malvern, United Kingdom; 2Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

• Evaluation Of A Common Protocol Based Telepathology System In Japan (2.88MB)
  Ikuo Tofukuji, ME1,2, Shuji Nakagawa3, Akitoshi Suzuki4, Makoto Saito5, Tsuneo Yamada6, Keizo Shiota6, Yasunari Tsuchihashi, MD7, Mariko Ohshiro, MD8, Taizo Shiraishi, MD9, Takashi Sawai, MD10, Shigekoto Kaihara, MD6
  1Olympus ProMarketing Inc., Tokyo, Japan; 2Tokyo & Niigata University, Niigata, Japan; 3Olympus Engineering Co., Ltd., Hachioji, Japan; 4Nikon Corporation, Yokohama, Japan; 5NTT Electronics Corporation, Yokosuka, Japan; 6The Medical Information System Development Center (MEDIS-DC), Tokyo, Japan; 7Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; 8Okinawa Hokubu Hospital, Nago, Japan; 9Mie University, Tsu, Japan; 10Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

• Remote, Real-Time, Interactive, Internet-Based Videofluoroscopic Assessment Of Swallowing (16.4MB)
  Adrienne L. Perlman, PhD, Weerasak Witthawaskul, MS
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

• "Best Practices" For Implementing An Urban County Tele-Ultrasound Project (1.70MB)
  G. Sealy Massingill, MD, FACOG
  North Texas Affiliated Medical Group; Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fort Worth, TX

• Teleradiology Driving Network Expansion: Recent Experience On The Navajo Reservation (10.5MB)
  Mark Carroll, MD1, Kevin M. McNeill, PhD2, Harlan Yazzie, BSEE1, Michael J. Holcomb, BS2
  1Navajo Area Indian Health Service, Tuba City, AZ; 2University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

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Rehabilitation

• Important Steps For Designing A Successful Business Plan (1.37MB)
  Jolene Davidson, MPT, Mark Hakel, PhD, CCC-SLP, Sharon Flaherty
  Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Lincoln, NE

• Telepower: Weight Loss/Weight Management Program For Rural Communities (1.33MB)
  Stanley Fowler, PhD, Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, PhD, Joan Thomas, MS, RD, April Petrofes, MPA, RD, Duncan Howe, PhD, Tom Ross, MBA, Stephen Harris
  University of South Carolina School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Columbia, SC

• Sustaining A Telerehabilitation Program (4.15MB)
  Cynthia Scheideman-Miller, MHA1, Pamela G. Clark, PhD2
  1INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma City, OK; 2INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center, Oklahoma City, OK

• Medicaid Reimbursement Opportunities For Rehabilitation Services Provided At A Distance (69.5KB)
  Michael J. Rosen, PhD1, Susan E. Palsbo, PhD2, Donal E. Lauderdale, BSCS, MSE1, Anna Cole, BBE3
  1National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC; 2National Rehabilitation Hospital, Center for Health and Disability Research, Washington, DC; 3The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

• Telerehabilitation Payment Policy: Lessons Learned And To Be Learned (333KB)
  Dena S. Puskin, ScD1, Donal E. Lauderdale, BSCS, MSE2, Lynda Savard, MS, PT3
  1Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, HRSA, Rockville, MD; 2National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC; 3Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Services, Minneapolis, MN

• Atypical Gaze In Autism & Implications For Remote Assessment (1.10MB)
  Cheryl Trepagnier, PhD1, Marc Sebrechts, PhD2, Rebecca Peterson, MS2
  1National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC; 2The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

• Building A Remote Sign-Language Interpreting System Through Videoconferencing (75.6MB)
  James Bates, PhD, Kent P. Tonkin, Barbara Demuth
  CERMUSA, Loretto, PA

• Telerehabitation In The Pacific Rim (6.85MB)
  Alex Borstad, PT, NCS, Timothy Bowman, MBA
  Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Services, Minneapolis, MN

• Acceptance of Telehealth Technology By Family Caregivers Of Stroke Patients In The Home Setting (362KB)
  Kathleen M. Buckley, PhD, RN, Binh Q. Tran, PhD, Cheryl Prandoni, RN, MSN
  The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

• Behavioral Telehealth For Pain Management: Efficacy And Consumer Satisfaction (1.50MB)
  Philip R. Appel, PhD, Joseph Bleiberg, PhD, John Noiseux, MS
  National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC

• Comparison Between Face-To-Face And Remote Telerehabilitation With Brain Injured Subjects (421KB)
  David M. Brennan, MBE, Amy Conroy, MS, CCC-SLP, Linsey Barker, BS
  National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC

• Outcome Measurement Of Telerehab Consultations (75.5KB)
  Jennine L. Speier, MS, MD1, Lynda Savard RPT1, Alexandra Borstad, RPT1, Timothy Bowman, MBA1, Susan Palsbo, PhD2
  1Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Services, Minneapolis, MN; 2National Rehabilitation Hospital Center for Health & Disability Research, MedStar Research Institute, Washington, DC

• Proof Of Concept Remote Testing And Interpreting (6.70MB)
  James Bates Ph.D., Barbara R. Demuth, RN, MSN, Kathy Barr-Howanek, Lori Hutchison, Thomas A. Cook, MOTR/L
  CERMUSA at Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA

• Follow-Up Burn Care Utilizing Telemedicine (1.04MB)
  John Griswold, MD, Don B. McBeath, BA, Shannon Kennedy Kirkland, MBA
  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

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Rural

• Applying the Forward Deployed Digital Medical Treatment Facility To Anti-Terrorism Operations (14.2MB)
  Tony Story, MS, Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Cost-Benefit Analysis Of A Telemedicine Program In Rural Arkansas (1.01MB)
  Ann B. Bynum, EdD, Cathy Irwin, PhD, RNPCS
  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

• PCOST: Portable, Commercial, Open-Standards Telemedicine (13.9MB)
  CDR Yosuke Komatsu, MD, PhD, Christian Macedonia, MD, Randy Spears, Brant Marshall, Clifford Cloonan, MD, Craig Llewellyn, MD, MPH
  Uniformed Services University (USUHS), Bethesda, MD

• The Evolution of Battlefield Medical Information System-Telemedicine (BMIS-T) (2.97MB)
  Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Mitra Rocca, MS, John Pajak, BSC, Christy Streeter, BS, COL Dean Calcagni, MD, Col Jeff Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• AFHCAN Software: Designed To Improve Health Care (6.62MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, MCSE, Chris Patricoski, MD, Darren Coolidge
  Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK

• A Rural Approach To A Successful School-Telemedicine Program (2.69MB)
  Dan Dugi, Jr., MD
  Bohman Clinic and Cuero Community Hospital, Cuero, TX

• Pacific Island Health Care Project: Update 2002 (6.41MB)
  COL Donald A. Person, MD
  Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

• Telemedicine Applications In The Remote Ecuadorian Rainforest (5.63MB)
  Charles Doarn, MBA, Stephen Cone, MD, Ronald Merrell, MD
  Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

• The Cuban National Telemedicine Program (883KB)
  David Krasnow, OD, PhD, MPH, MBA1, Eng. Enrique Landeiro2
  1Vista Health Care Group, Beverly Hills, CA; 2Ministry of Health, Republic of Cuba, Cuba

• Village Leap: Creating A Sustainable Telemedicine Model In An Extreme Environment
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  Bernard Krisher1, Kathleen Kelleher2, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD2
  1VIllage Leap Program, Boston, MA; 2Partners Telemedicine, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA

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Statewide/Regional Networks

• Integrating Your Telemedicine Network Into Existing Local Disaster Response Plans (268KB)
  Beth McCullers, MHA1, Barry Moore, MA2
  1 University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; 2 Shelby County Health Department, Memphis, TN

• Teledermatology As The Core To Modernising Service Delivery In The NHS (5.57MB)
  John F. Navein, MB, ChB, MRCGP, DCH, DTM&H, LRCP, MRCS1, Ian Jardine2
  1West Surrey Health Authority; 2The Telemedicine Alliance; Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, England

• The Telemedicine Network As The Engine For Sustainability (839KB)
  Kevin M. McNeill, PhD, Gail P. Barker, BA
  Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Developing A Statewide Broadband Infrastructure To Support Clinical And Educational Tele-Services In Kansas: An Overview Of Political And Technical Challenges (888KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• The IDEATel Project: Up And Running (4.57MB)
  Justin Starren, MD, PhD1, Steven Shea, MD2, Ruth S. Weinstock, MD, PhD3,4, Paul E. Knudson, MD3, Philip C. Morin, MS3, Jeanne Teresi, EdD, PhD5,6, Douglas Holmes, PhD5, Walter Palmas, MD1, Lesley Field, RN, MSN1, Robin Goland, MD7, George Hripcsak, MD1, Charlyn Hilliman1, Mohammad Ashraf1, David Liss8
  1Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY; 2Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY; 3Joslin Diabetes Center and Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, SUNY Upstate Medical University, New York, NY; 4VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY; 5Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Bronx, NY; 6Columbia University Stroud Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY; 7Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY; 8Office of Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

• Evaluation Of A Common Protocol Based Telepathology System In Japan (2.88MB)
  Ikuo Tofukuji, ME1,2, Shuji Nakagawa3, Akitoshi Suzuki4, Makoto Saito5, Tsuneo Yamada6, Keizo Shiota6, Yasunari Tsuchihashi, MD7, Mariko Ohshiro, MD8, Taizo Shiraishi, MD9, Takashi Sawai, MD10, Shigekoto Kaihara, MD6
  1Olympus ProMarketing Inc., Tokyo, Japan; 2Tokyo & Niigata University, Niigata, Japan; 3Olympus Engineering Co., Ltd., Hachioji, Japan; 4Nikon Corporation, Yokohama, Japan; 5NTT Electronics Corporation, Yokosuka, Japan; 6The Medical Information System Development Center (MEDIS-DC), Tokyo, Japan; 7Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; 8Okinawa Hokubu Hospital, Nago, Japan; 9Mie University, Tsu, Japan; 10Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

• Telemedicine In A Statewide Juvenile Corrections Program (8.4MB)
  Thomas Winchell, MPA, Wayne A. Wilbright, MD, MS, Michael Felton, MD
  Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

• Telemedicine's Role In Homeland Defense (843KB)
  Leon Clements, MBA, Oscar W. Boultinghouse, MD, Glenn Hammack, OD, MSHI, Michael Davis, MD, Byron Brooks, MD, Harry Davis, MD
  University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• Sustaining Telemedicine In Alaska (8.59MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, Chris Patricoski, MD, Linda Lekness, RN, MS, MBA
  Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK

• A Statewide Infrastructure Investment To Foster Development Of Practical Telemedicine (3.67MB)
  Robert J. Tessen, MS
  Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board, Austin, TX

• Providing Care Earlier - Implementing Our Country Wide Telemedicine Strategy (8.07MB)
  Kenneth W. Pile, Adrian Savill, Lydia Batemen
  National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• Teleradiology Driving Network Expansion: Recent Experience On The Navajo Reservation (10.5MB)
  Mark Carroll, MD1, Kevin M. McNeill, PhD2, Harlan Yazzie, BSEE1, Michael J. Holcomb, BS2
  1Navajo Area Indian Health Service, Tuba City, AZ; 2University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Linkages For Increasing Access To Psychiatric Care In Rural MUA (0.98MB)
  Glenda Walker, RN, DSN1, Ben G. Raimer, MD2, Jeanette Hartshorn, PhD, RN, FAAN2, Nancy Speck, PhD2, Rowdy Stovall2
  1Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacagdoches, TX; 2University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• Health Access And Alert Network (HAANet) Of Texas (2.61MB)
  Robert M. Brecht, PhD, Jim Barrett, EdD
  E-Health Solutions, Inc., Houston, TX

• Impact Of Health Telematics On Mass Casualty Response (MASCAR) (1.37MB)
  Tim Lange, MD, Thomas Benner, Michael Nerlich, MD
  University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany

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Technology

• Equipping Military Treatment Facilities with Risk Information Management Resources (960KB)
  Willie E. Wright, MBA
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• "SMART" Solutions For Anti-Terrorism And Homeland Security Operations Support (3.72MB)
  Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Conrad Clyburn, MS, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• First Year Experience Using the DigiScope for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (12.1MB)
  Ingrid E. Zimmer-Galler, MD1, Susan Vitale, PhD, MHS1, Kevin Quinn, BS2, Torre Meeder, BS2, Ran Zeimer, PhD1
  1Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; 2EyeTel Imaging, Centreville, VA

• Pressure/Motion Monitoring For Remote Delivery Of Skin Care To Veterans (1.77MB)
  Eric E. Sabelman, PhD, David L. Jaffe, MS, H.F.M. Van der Loos, PhD
  VA Rehabilitation R&D Center, Palo Alto, CA

• The Virtual Homecare Visit: Using Broadband Connectivity to Support Remote Homecare Delivery (2.05MB)
  Sandra Lowenstein, MA1, Richard Scott, BSc (Hons), PhD2
  1March Networks, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; 2Telehealth Research Laboratory, University of Calgary

• DermLite FOTO: A New Epiluminescence Skin Imaging Device For Teledermatology (12.0MB)
  Daniel Mark Siegel, MD, MS1, Nizar A. Mullani BS2
  1 State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; 2 3Gen LLC, Sugar Land, TX

• Telepower: Weight Loss/Weight Management Program For Rural Communities (1.33MB)
  Stanley Fowler, PhD, Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, PhD, Joan Thomas, MS, RD, April Petrofes, MPA, RD, Duncan Howe, PhD, Tom Ross, MBA, Stephen Harris
  University of South Carolina School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Columbia, SC

• Veterans Affairs Telemedical Cancer Center: Preliminary Clinical Results (128KB)
  Kevin Billingsley, MD1, David Schwartz, MD1, Susan Lentz1, Eriv Valliéres, MD1, R. Bruce Montgomery, MD1, William Schubach, MD1, David Penson, MD1, Bevan Yueh, MD1, Howard Chansky, MD1, Claudia Zink1, G. Starkebaum, MD1, Darla Parayno, RN2
  1VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; 2Spokane VA Medical Center, Spokane, WA

• Roadmap Of Military Needs In Biomedical Informatics (197KB)
  Jaques Reifman, PhD1, Gary Gilbert, PhD1, Lawrence Fagan, MD, PhD2, Richard Satava, MD3
  1United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD; 2Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 3Yale University, New Haven, CT

• The Metamorphosis Of Telemedicine As An Enabling Technology (75.5KB)
  Jay H. Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI
  The Global Telemedicine Group/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, McLean, VA

• Government Regulation Of Telemedicine Software And Hardware (1.74MB)
  Robert J. Waters, Esq.
  Arent Fox Plotkin Kintner & Kahn, Washington, DC

• Telemedicine Under HIPAA (936KB)
  Peter J. Haigh, MA
  Verizon Health Industry, Pittsburgh, PA

• Gait And Activity Analysis With A Wireless Home Telecare System (4.76MB)
  Laurence Wilson, PhD1, Briony Doyle, MBiomedE1, Michael Dadd, MEngSc1, Marcus Gunaratnam, MB BS FRACP2
  1CSIRO, Sydney, Australia; 2Ryde Hospital, Sydney, Australia

• Challenges To Implementing Wireless LANs In Healthcare: EMC And Security (2.43MB)
  CPT Sean D. Kennedy, MS, CPT Sergio R. McKenzie, Mark C. Pettinato, PhD
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Handheld Wireless Diagnostic Systems In Telemedicine (Tricorder Prototype) (2.62MB)
  Willie E. Wright, MBA
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• A Wireless Medical Enterprise Research Program For The U.S. Army (1.31MB)
  G. Rufus Sessions, PhD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• The Evolution of Battlefield Medical Information System-Telemedicine (BMIS-T) (2.97MB)
  Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Mitra Rocca, MS, John Pajak, BSC, Christy Streeter, BS, COL Dean Calcagni, MD, Col Jeff Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook Development And Telemedicine Application (127KB)
  Gay D. Thompson, BSN, MPH, Pete Redmond
  Center for Total Access, Fort Gordon, GA

• Utilization Of Interactive Health Communications Among Public Health Professionals (51KB)
  Charles Maynard, PhD1, Pamela Whitten, PhD2, Robert Glandon3, Rebecca Henry, PhD2, Mark Notman, PhD2
  1Center for Advancing Community Health; 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; 3Ingham Public Health

• Developing A Statewide Broadband Infrastructure To Support Clinical And Educational Tele-Services In Kansas: An Overview Of Political And Technical Challenges (888KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• Telemedicine's Role In Homeland Defense (843KB)
  Leon Clements, MBA, Oscar W. Boultinghouse, MD, Glenn Hammack, OD, MSHI, Michael Davis, MD, Byron Brooks, MD, Harry Davis, MD
  University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

• A COTS Tool For Rapidly Configuring And Integrating Telemedicine Systems (16.4MB)
  Gary R. Gilbert, PhD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD; University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business Artificial Intelligence in Managment Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA

• AFHCAN Software: Designed To Improve Health Care (6.62MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, MCSE, Chris Patricoski, MD, Darren Coolidge
  Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK

• Wireless Capsule Endoscopy: Telemedicine From Within (8.48MB)
  Doron Fischer, MD1, Reuven Shreiver, MD1, Rami Eliakim, MD1, Arkady Glukhovsky, DSc2, Harold Jacob, MD2, Schlomo Lewkowicz, DSc2, David Goldenberg, MD3
  1Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; 2Given Imaging Ltd., Yoqneam, Israel; 3Galil Center for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

• Telehomecare Requirements Elicitation - On The Road To Telehomecare Interoperability Standards (128KB)
  Pamela D. Brockway, BSc, Ralph C. Ulmer, CAM, PMgr, Dale W. Bergman, PEng, Peter M. Sargious, MD, MPH, FRCPC
  Alberta Research Council, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• A Digital Image Management System For Histopahtology Slides (14MB)
  Jim McGee, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci3, Margaret Varga, PhD1, Paul Ducksbury, PhD1, John Machar1, Rudolf Hanka, PhD2, Peter Somol, PhD2
  1QinetiQ, Malvern, United Kingdom; 2Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

• A Statewide Infrastructure Investment To Foster Development Of Practical Telemedicine (3.67MB)
  Robert J. Tessen, MS
  Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board, Austin, TX

• "Virtually Healthy" Integrating Technology And Coordination; A Two Year Success Story (2.16MB)
  Marlis Meyer, MA
  VISN 8 Home & Community Care Service Line, Department of Veterans Affairs, Lake City, FL

• Impact Of Telehomecare On Patient Outcomes: Initial Results (437KB)
  Michiel Veen1, Stuart M. Speedie, PhD2, Stanley M. Finkelstein, PhD2, Jan Marie Lundgren, BS2, George Demiris, PhD2
  1IPHIE Visit Scholar, University of Amsterdam; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

• Making The Connection: Care Coordination With Technology Improves Self Care (922KB)
  Patricia A. Ryan, MS, RN
  VISN 8 Home and Community Care Service Line, Department of Veterans Affairs, Bay Pines, FL

• Health Access And Alert Network (HAANet) Of Texas (2.61MB)
  Robert M. Brecht, PhD, Jim Barrett, EdD
  E-Health Solutions, Inc., Houston, TX

• Impact Of Health Telematics On Mass Casualty Response (MASCAR) (1.37MB)
  Tim Lange, MD, Thomas Benner, Michael Nerlich, MD
  University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany

• Applying the Forward Deployed Digital Medical Treatment Facility To Anti-Terrorism Operations (14.2MB)
  Tony Story, MS, Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Medical Modeling To Support Anti-Terrorism & Homeland Security Operations ( 2.58MB)
  Tommy J. Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Gerry Moses, PhD, Gary Gilbert, PhD, Col Jeffrey Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• A Physiologic Data Routing Hub For Wireless Sensors - The VitalPoll (2.12MB)
  Brett Harnett, Charles R. Doarn, MBA
  Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

• Deployment Of A Wireless Telemedicine Network In Eastern North Carolina (3MB)
  Scott C. Simmons, MS, William Chimiak, PhD, Ronald D. Rouse, Theodore G. Kummer
  Telemedicine Center, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC

• Telemedicine Over Satellite: Technical Issues And Solutions (3.65MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, MCSE1, Darren Coolidge1, David Young1, Tom Bohn1, Tom Bunger1, David Gault2, Wally Morris2
  1Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK; 2Resource Data Inc., Anchorage, AK

• Telemedicine Applications In The Remote Ecuadorian Rainforest (5.63MB)
  Charles Doarn, MBA, Stephen Cone, MD, Ronald Merrell, MD
  Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

• Remote, Real-Time, Interactive, Internet-Based Videofluoroscopic Assessment Of Swallowing (16.4MB)
  Adrienne L. Perlman, PhD, Weerasak Witthawaskul, MS
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

• Access And Outcomes Through The Michigan Telepsychiatry Project (38KB)
  Pamela Whitten, PhD1, Zora Ziazi, MA1, Linda Marion, MD2
  1Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; 2Lifeways, Jackson, MI

• Web-Based Automated Mental Health Intake System (WAMHIS) (3.99MB)
  COL Ryo S. Chun, MD, LTC Steve Cozza, MD, Donna L. Edison, DO
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Digital Stethoscopes For Real-Time And Store-and-Forward Telecardiology Applications (324KB)
  Earl W. Ferguson, MD, PhD1,2, Alan J. Van Nevel, PhD3, Larry Peterson3
  1 Southern Sierra Medical Clinic, Ridgecrest, CA; 2 Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, Ridgecrest, CA; 3 Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA

• Domestic/International Telemedicine Using Simultaneous Streaming Media, H.320, H.323 Via Inter/Intranet (1.0MB)
  Thomas A. Key, CCNA, BS1, Raul C. Ribeiro, MD1, Rich House1, Dan Huss1, Bassem I. Razzouk, MD1, Franscisco Pedrosa, MD2, Edson L. Michalkiewicz, MD, PhD, MBA3, Edilson Alexandre2
  1St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; 2Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco (IMIP), Recife, Brazil; 3Federal University Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil

• Networks For Interactive Telemedical Applications (13.8MB)
  Georgi B. Graschew, PhD, S. Rakowsky, PhD, T.A. Roelofs, PhD, P.M. Schlag Prof. MD, PhD
  Surgical Research Unit OP 2000, Robert-Roessle-Klinik and Max-Delbrueck-Centrum, Charité, Berlin, Germany

• Comparison Between Face-To-Face And Remote Telerehabilitation With Brain Injured Subjects (421KB)
  David M. Brennan, MBE, Amy Conroy, MS, CCC-SLP, Linsey Barker, BS
  National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC

• An Integrated, Sustainable And Scaleable Patient Triaging System (1.81MB)
  Krisan S. Palmer, RN1, Tim Kaufman2, Richard Scott, PhD3, Robert G. MacDonald, MD1
  1Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; 2Second Opinion Software, Gardena, CA; 3Alberta University, Alberta, Canada

• Building A Remote Sign-Language Interpreting System Through Videoconferencing (75.6MB)
  James Bates, PhD, Kent P. Tonkin, Barbara Demuth
  CERMUSA, Loretto, PA

• Technology Enhanced Peer Review: An Effective Framework For Utilization (2.31MB)
  Jeanette Rasche, MS, Bill Bowman, BS, Angela Dingbaum, RN, MPH
  Center for Total Access, Fort Gordon, GA

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Telecommunications/Wireless Networks

• The Virtual Homecare Visit: Using Broadband Connectivity to Support Remote Homecare Delivery (2.05MB)
  Sandra Lowenstein, MA1, Richard Scott, BSc (Hons), PhD2
  1March Networks, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; 2Telehealth Research Laboratory, University of Calgary

• Telemedicine Under HIPAA (936KB)
  Peter J. Haigh, MA
  Verizon Health Industry, Pittsburgh, PA

• A Wireless Medical Enterprise Research Program For The U.S. Army (1.31MB)
  G. Rufus Sessions, PhD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Gait And Activity Analysis With A Wireless Home Telecare System (4.76MB)
  Laurence Wilson, PhD1, Briony Doyle, MBiomedE1, Michael Dadd, MEngSc1, Marcus Gunaratnam, MB BS FRACP2
  1CSIRO, Sydney, Australia; 2Ryde Hospital, Sydney, Australia

• Challenges To Implementing Wireless LANs In Healthcare: EMC And Security (2.43MB)
  CPT Sean D. Kennedy, MS, CPT Sergio R. McKenzie, Mark C. Pettinato, PhD
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Handheld Wireless Diagnostic Systems In Telemedicine (Tricorder Prototype) (2.62MB)
  Willie E. Wright, MBA
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

• Developing A Statewide Broadband Infrastructure To Support Clinical And Educational Tele-Services In Kansas: An Overview Of Political And Technical Challenges (888KB)
  David J. Cook, PhD
  Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

• A COTS Tool For Rapidly Configuring And Integrating Telemedicine Systems (16.4MB)
  Gary R. Gilbert, PhD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD; University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business Artificial Intelligence in Managment Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA

• A Digital Image Management System For Histopahtology Slides (14MB)
  Jim McGee, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci3, Margaret Varga, PhD1, Paul Ducksbury, PhD1, John Machar1, Rudolf Hanka, PhD2, Peter Somol, PhD2
  1QinetiQ, Malvern, United Kingdom; 2Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

• A Statewide Infrastructure Investment To Foster Development Of Practical Telemedicine (3.67MB)
  Robert J. Tessen, MS
  Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board, Austin, TX

• Health Access And Alert Network (HAANet) Of Texas (2.61MB)
  Robert M. Brecht, PhD, Jim Barrett, EdD
  E-Health Solutions, Inc., Houston, TX

• Impact Of Health Telematics On Mass Casualty Response (MASCAR) (1.37MB)
  Tim Lange, MD, Thomas Benner, Michael Nerlich, MD
  University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany

• A Physiologic Data Routing Hub For Wireless Sensors - The VitalPoll (2.12MB)
  Brett Harnett, Charles R. Doarn, MBA
  Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

• Deployment Of A Wireless Telemedicine Network In Eastern North Carolina (3MB)
  Scott C. Simmons, MS, William Chimiak, PhD, Ronald D. Rouse, Theodore G. Kummer
  Telemedicine Center, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC

• Telemedicine Over Satellite: Technical Issues And Solutions (3.65MB)
  A. Stewart Ferguson, PhD, MCSE1, Darren Coolidge1, David Young1, Tom Bohn1, Tom Bunger1, David Gault2, Wally Morris2
  1Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK; 2Resource Data Inc., Anchorage, AK

• Domestic/International Telemedicine Using Simultaneous Streaming Media, H.320, H.323 Via Inter/Intranet (1.0MB)
  Thomas A. Key, CCNA, BS1, Raul C. Ribeiro, MD1, Rich House1, Dan Huss1, Bassem I. Razzouk, MD1, Franscisco Pedrosa, MD2, Edson L. Michalkiewicz, MD, PhD, MBA3, Edilson Alexandre2
  1St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; 2Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco (IMIP), Recife, Brazil; 3Federal University Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil

• Networks For Interactive Telemedical Applications (13.8MB)
  Georgi B. Graschew, PhD, S. Rakowsky, PhD, T.A. Roelofs, PhD, P.M. Schlag Prof. MD, PhD
  Surgical Research Unit OP 2000, Robert-Roessle-Klinik and Max-Delbrueck-Centrum, Charité, Berlin, Germany

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Veterans

• Pressure/Motion Monitoring For Remote Delivery Of Skin Care To Veterans (1.77MB)
  Eric E. Sabelman, PhD, David L. Jaffe, MS, H.F.M. Van der Loos, PhD
  VA Rehabilitation R&D Center, Palo Alto, CA

• Determining Prevalence Of Skin Diseases In Gulf-War Veterans Using Teledermatology
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  Hon S. Pak, MD1, John Whited, MD2, Seth Eisen, MD3
  1 Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center, San Antonio, TX; 2 University of Durham VA, Durham, NC; 3 Washington University, Washington, MO

• Veterans Affairs Telemedical Cancer Center: Preliminary Clinical Results (128KB)
  Kevin Billingsley, MD1, David Schwartz, MD1, Susan Lentz1, Eriv Valliéres, MD1, R. Bruce Montgomery, MD1, William Schubach, MD1, David Penson, MD1, Bevan Yueh, MD1, Howard Chansky, MD1, Claudia Zink1, G. Starkebaum, MD1, Darla Parayno, RN2
  1VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; 2Spokane VA Medical Center, Spokane, WA

• The Evolution of Battlefield Medical Information System-Telemedicine (BMIS-T) (2.97MB)
  Tommy Morris, BS, Jan M. Patterson, BA, Mitra Rocca, MS, John Pajak, BSC, Christy Streeter, BS, COL Dean Calcagni, MD, Col Jeff Roller, MD
  United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Fort Detrick, MD

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