Telemedicine and Telecare Specialties

Nursing

• Allnurses.com
  Internet nursing resources.
• BROWNson's Nursing Notes
  Lists rural internet resources and links; the site is part of the Nursing Peer Excellence Ring.
• Canadian Nursing Informatics Association
  The mission of the CNIA is to be the voice for Health Informatics in Canada.
• Competencies for Telehealth Technologies in Nursing
  This book allows RNs using telehealth technologies to guide and evaluate their practice. Practitioners and administrators in all practice settings should review the competencies, adapt them as necessary for specific settings, and develop performance criteria for them. Also includes a glossary of terms pertaining to telehealth and a list of sources for more information on telehealth. $$
• Developing Telehealth Protocols: A Blueprint for Success
  Formatted primarily as a checklist, Developing Telehealth Protocols: A Blueprint for Success serves as a measurement tool and a reference guide for all health care professionals. This book will help any user or administrator of telehealth systems develop useful protocols for clinical practice situations as well as to prepare funding proposals. $$
• E-Health and Telephone Nursing Bulletin Board
  From Carol Stock and Associates.
• e-Health Nurses Network
  This network, first established by a small group of UK nurses in 2000, is an independent initiative, freely open to all nurses and health and social care colleagues with an interest in developing e-health in order to maximize the professional delivery of effective patient care.
• Health Information Privacy Protection: Crisis or Common Sense?
  Author/editor: Joanne K. Kumekawa, BA, MBA
  Date: September 30, 2001
  From Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, this paper briefly touches upon new sweeping federal privacy standards mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The article outlines who and what is covered under the new rules, considers how practitioners can approach compliance with common sense, addresses concerns related to risk management, discusses consumer health privacy issues, and notes the difficulty of evaluating these rules and regulations. The article also looks at some unique privacy issues facing telemedicine and telehealth practitioners.
• I.T. Often a Tough Sell to Nursing Staffs
  Author/editor: Greg Gillespie
  Date: April 2002
  From the online Health Data Management, April 2002. Like physicians, nurses can offer resistance to information technology when I.T. comes between them and patients.
• IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics
  IMIA-NI is the Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). It is a non profit organization, originally established by IMIA in 1983 as Working Group 8 of IMIA, dedicated to serving the specific needs of nurses in the field of nursing informatics.
• Irish Nursing Board: An Bord Altranais
  An Bord Altranais was established by the Nurses Act, 1950 to take over the functions of two bodies, the Central Midwives Board and the General Nursing Council, established in 1918 and 1919 respectively. An Bord Altranais was re-constituted and its functions were re-defined and expanded by the Nurses Act, 1985.
• ITIN: Official Journal of the British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group
  ITIN is the official journal of the Nursing Specialist Group of The British Computer Society. ITIN aims to present papers, comment and other materials which are relevant, authoritative and wide ranging in the area of information and communications technologies, directly or indirectly influenced by and/or influencing nursing and the professions allied to medicine, in the UK, Europe and the wider international community.
• Journal of E-health Nursing
  Online journal from Carol M. Stock & Associates.
• Journal of Mobile Informatics
  Site dedicated to reviewing IT hardware and software; includes a nursing perspective.
• NHS Direct
  NHS Direct is a 24-hour nurse advice and health information service based in the United Kingdom. It provides services including: what to do if you or your family are feeling ill, particular health conditions, local healthcare services, such as doctors, dentists or late night opening pharmacies, and self-help and support organisations.
• Nursing, Technology and the Experience of Illness
  Author/editor: Jo Ann Walton
  Date: July-September, 2002
  From the online ICUs and Nursing Web Journal, the author discusses the impact of technology on nursing. Adobe PDF
• Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
  A peer-reviewed, electronic journal providing a free forum for discussion of issues in nursing. Published by Kent State University College of Nursing.
• Overview and Summary: Telehealth: Promise or Peril?
  Author/editor: Linda Q. Thede PhD, RN,C
  Date: September 30, 2001
  From the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Vol. 6 #3. Some fear that telehealth will reduce the number of nurses and other healthcare professionals needed; others worry about privacy and legalities. Regardless of one's beliefs, telehealth is not likely to go away. In this introduction are links to 3 articles on telenursing which examine some of these perils.
• Primecare e-Health Services (UK)
  Primecare offers a range of services to support healthcare professionals and their patients ranging from GP out-of-hours, e-Health to managed healthcare in the home.
• Telehealth Issues for Nursing
  Comments on telemedicine from the American Nursing Association.
• Telephone Nursing: Avoiding Legal and Practice Obstacles
  A seminar produced by Carol Stock and Associates.
• Telephone Triage in Western Australia
  Author/editor: C Rabune and AJ Wilson
  Date: February 4, 2002
  The article from the eMJA (Medical Journal of Australia) describes the development and operations of the first large-scale Australian medical telephone triage centre. Studies have commenced to evaluate efficacy and safety of the service, as well as gauge the impact on demand for healthcare services. Also available as a PDF file.
• Telephone Triage Nursing
  A list of links to information on telephone triage.

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