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Federal Government Initiatives

Telemedicine Report to Congress (1997). Privacy, security and confidentiality in telemedicine. Available http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/telemed/privacy.htm.

2001 Report to Congress on Telemedicine. Executive Summary.
http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/pubs/report2001/exec.htm

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Publications sites. Provides links to information about telehealth.
http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/pubs.htm

Telehealth Technology Guidelines. This site has a draft of guidelines from the Office of Technology.
http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/pubs/tech/techhome.htm

Information about applying for a grant for " research related to telehealth interventions designed to improve
clinical nursing care.:
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-138.html

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Legal Issues

Glazer, G. (May 4, 1999). Legislative Column: Legislative and Policy Issues Related to Interstate Practice. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Available http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/tpclg/leg_7.htm

The National Council of State Boards keeps an updated list of states whose legislatures have approved the "Nurse Licensure Compact" which allows a nurse licensed in one state to practice in another IF the nurse follows the state laws regulating nursing in that state. To find it you need to go to the link below, then click on "Nurse Licensure Compact" on the right side of the screen. The link to the map that gives up to date information is at the bottom of that page.
http://www.ncsbn.org/

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Telehealth

Newbold, S. (1999). Connecting to Telenursing. An excellent article that defines the terms, discusses some legal issues, where nursing organizations stand on the issue, projects with nursing components, how nurses use telehealth and emerging applications.
http://www.nurses.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7BF560EB15-2FEA-11D3-B647-00C04F481017%7D&VNETCOOKIE=NO

Information about Florida's strategic plan for telehealth. Very detailed.
http://www.atmeda.org/news/!DOHTelehealthStratPlan.htm

Medicaid & Home Telehealthcare: It’s Time (2007, August). This site discusses advantages for home telehealthcare in this population. Links to some interviews with managers of home healthcare. (Added August 9, 2007)
http://www.informationfortomorrow.com/community/LookHomeward0807.htm

Schlachta-Fairchild, Loretta; Elfrink, Victoria; Deickman, Andrea. (2008). Patient Safety, Telenursing, and Telehealth. evidence-based review and recommendations for the use Telehealth and Telenursing as Tools for Patient Safety, authored by yours truly and team. Hope you will all find this publication helpful in advancing the use of Telenursing. (Added May 7, 2008)
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/docs/SchlachtaL_PSTT.pdf

Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE). This govenment sponsored Web site provides some helpful information. (Added October 13, 2003)
http://tie.telemed.org/

Turisco, F. & .Metzger, J. (2002.) Rural Health Care Delivery: Connecting Communities Through Technology. A report from First Technology Group, that provides an overview and case studies of technology tools available to assist health care providers in rural settings. Complete report, a PDF File, can be downloaded from this site.
http://www.chcf.org/topics/view.cfm?itemID=20206

Some interesting articles and other odd bits about telehealth, primarily mental health oriented, including getting involved in telehealth, confidentiality in "cyberpsych."
http://telehealth.net/articles/essays.html

Telehomenurse. An excellent article from Telemedicine Today describing the use of telehealth in home nursing.
http://www.telemedtoday.com/articles/Telehomenurse.shtml

Telemedicine Bibliographic Database. Although the articles in this database are generally print articles, the site essnetially provides a "one topic" database search for telemedicine. (Added 2/25/03)
http://tie.telemed.org/biblio/l

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Video Conferencing

The video conferencing cookbook. The site is poorly designed, but the information is great. Click on "Uses of Video Conferencing" to get started. Includes information about education and telehealth.
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=CSD1377

Telemedicine Information Exchange. This site is constantly updated with information pertinent to telehealth including bibliographic citations, programs, meetings, and funding.
http://tie.telemed.org/

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Online References For This Chapter

(These references are from the chapter. This list only include the ones that are still available. Please report broken links to Linda Q. Thede)

About telehealth project (2002). Retrieved April 13, 2002 from
http://eahec.ecu.edu/telehealth/abth.html#purp.

ANA (n.d.) Telehealth monograph. Retrieved April 16, 2002 from
http://www.nursingworld.org/tan/99sptoct/products.htm.

ANA (1996). Telehealth -- Issues For Nursing. Retrieved April 17, 2002 from
http://www.ana.org/readroom/tele2.htm.

Gaffney, T. (May 31, 1999): The Regulatory Dilemma Surrounding Interstate Practice Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 9 (3). Retrieved April 16, 2002 from
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic9/topic9_1.htm

Glossary of Telehealth Terms. (Added January 6, 2006)
http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/telehealth/Glossary.htm

Hutcherson, C. M. (September 30, 2001). Legal Considerations for Nurses Practicing in a Telehealth Setting. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. 6 (3). Retrieved April 16, 2002 from
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic16/tpc16_3.htm

Issues, Future Technology Trends. (1999). Retrieved April 17, 2002 from
http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/pubs/future.htm.

Kumekawa, Joanne K. (September 30, 2001) Health Information Privacy Protection: Crisis or Common Sense?" Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 6 (3). Retrieved April 16, 2002 from
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic16/tpc16_2.htm.

NCSBN, (2001). State Compact Bill Status. Retrieved April 16, 2002 from http://www.ncsbn.org/public/regulation/mutual_recognition_state.htm. (To see this go to Legal Issues in Web sites on this page.)

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth & The Joint Working Group on Telemedicine 2001 Report to Congress on Telemedicine (2001). Executive Summary. Retrieved April 12, 2002 from
http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/pubs/report2001/exec.htm.

Puskin, D. S. (September 30, 2001) Telemedicine: Follow the Money. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 6 (3) Retrieved April 16, 2002 from
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic16/tpc16_1.htm.

Wootton, R. (2001). Recent advances telemedicine. [Electronic Version] British Medical Journal 323, 557-560. Retrieved June 18, 2001 from http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7312/557

Jones, M. G. (1997). Telemedicine and the national information infrastructure: Are the realities of health care being ignored? PDF File [Electronic Version] Journal of the American Medical Association 4, 399-412. medicine.ucsd.edu/faculty/masys/HPCCtelemed.pdf

Lattimer, V. Sassi, F., George, S., Turnbull, J., Mullee, M., &Smith, H. (2000). Cost analysis of nurse telephone consultation in out of hours primary care: evidence from a randomised controlled trial. [Electronic Version] British Medical Journal 1320, 1053-1057.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/320/7241/1053?maxtoshow=&
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