Innovation in telehealth and a role for the government

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 118, Issue , 2005, Pages 32-42

  Spivack, Richard N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

HEALTH SYSTEMS; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL DEVICES; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REMOTE MONITORING; TECHNOLOGY FORECASTS; TELEHEALTH;

EHEALTH;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; FORECASTING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTERNET; MASS COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH; ROLE PLAYING; TELEMEDICINE;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FORECASTING; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INTERNET; RESEARCH; ROLE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 33645897366     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. I am indebted to the following people for editorial support, Lorel Wisniewski, Stephanie Shipp and Connie Chang
2. This chapter is based on the following report prepared for the U.S. Department of Commerce. "Innovation, Demand and Investment in Telehealth," by David Brantley, Karen Laney-Cummings, and Richard Spivack. The full report is available at: http://www.technology.gov/reports/TechPolicy/ Telehealth/2004Contents
3. Richard Spivack is an economist in the Advanced Technology Programs (ATP) Economic Assessment Office, which focuses on evaluating the long term results of ATP funding. Richards research focuses on examining ATPs Health Care Information Technologies which has resulted in his publication of several articles on the topic of telehealth. 4 "Technology Forecast" from Medical Device Link, at http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/00/01/012.html
4. Barbara Johnston, RN, MSNM&L; Linda Wheeler, RN, MSNM&L; Jill Deuser, RN, MBA; Karen H. Sousa, RN, PhD "Outcomes of the Kaiser Permanente Tele-Home Health Research Project" from the Archives of Family Medicine, January 2000. View the 1997 study at: http://archfami.ama-assn.org/issues/v9n1/ ffull/foc8072.html#a4
5. "U.S. Statistics in Brief," Statistical Abstract of the United States 2003, U.S. Commerce Department
6. Table A-2, "Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type of Coverage by Selected Characteristics: 2000," U.S. Censure Bureau, can be viewed at: http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p60-215.pdf
7. Guler, Nihal Fatma and Elif Derya Ubeyli. "Theory and Applications of Telemedicine." Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 26, No. 3, June 2002. p. 202
8. A generation is defined as a period of time in which stakeholder interests and technological development are at a similar stage. A generation changes when breakthroughs occur in technologies and innovation moves quickly to a different level
9. For more history of telehealth, see Telecommunications for Nurses, 2nd Edition, Armstrong and Frueh (editors), "An Overview of Telemedicine: Through the Looking Glass," (D.S. Puskin), Springer Publishing, 2003
10. Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration
11. Mark Newburger, CEO of Apollo Telemedicine and a panelist at the U.S. Department of Commerce Technology Administrations Roundtable discussion "Innovation, Demand and Investment in Telehealth," June 19, 2002 in Washington D.C
12. Many technologies have found their way into healthcare from a variety of business backgrounds, e.g., inventory tracking technologies are also useful in tracking patient records as well as a patients lab results
13. These figures are the latest amounts available and include Congressional earmarks
14. Amounts for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services represent one year of a five-year, $30 million demonstration grant managed by Columbia Presbyterian
15. "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" Committee on Quality Health Care in America, 2001, Washington D.C., National Academy Press
16. "Information for Health: A Strategy for Building a National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)" by the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C. November 2001
17. For more information on "Developing a National Action Agenda for NHII" see: http://www.nhii-03.s- 3.net/welcome.htm
18. Phil Bond, Under Secretary for Technology United States Department of Commerce, address to the American Telemedicine Association conference, Orlando, FL., April 2003
19. For more information, see Bettijoyce Lide and Richard N. Spivack, "Advanced Technology Program Information Infrastructure for Healthcare Focused Program: A Brief History," (NISTIR 6477), February 2000
20. For more information on the many telehealth services offered by the Connecticut Hospital Association please refer to http://www.chime.org/
21. For a more complete description of these technologies as well as others funded in the ATP go to http://www.chime.org/
22. Simpson, Roy L. "Our First Line of Defense Against Bioterrorism" Nursing Management 2002 May 33(5): 10-13. p. 12
23. For a more complete description of these technologies as well as others funded in the ATP go to www.atp.nist.gov
24. Jon Linkous, Executive Director, American Telemedicine Association, September 2002
25. Col. Ron Porapatichs address at the American Telemedicine Association conference, Los Angeles, CA., December 2002
26. Kelly, Becky. "Telemedicine Begins to Make Progress" Health Data Management, Jan. 2002, p. 76