Home Telehealth

Home Telehealth Links

• A Home Telehealth Glossary
  From Home Care Management Associates, Ltd.
• Affective Computing in Tele-home Health
  Author/editor: Christine Lisetti, Cynthia LeRouge
  Date: January 2004
  Though on-site presence may not be mandated, the home health care provider must still exhibit cognitive and observational skills to assess patient status from a distance when using tele-home health tools. Adobe PDF
• American Association for Homecare
  The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) is the only national association that represents every line of service in the homecare community, including home health and home medical equipment providers, respiratory and infusion therapy, telemedicine, and rehab and assistive technology.
• American Telemedicine Association's Telehome Care Guidelines
  In 1998 the American Telemedicine Association released its telehome care guidelines. The guidelines provide a comprehensive resource to developing a quality telehome health system.
• Basic Statistics About Home Care
  A resource on statistics for home health care from the National Association of Home Care (NAHC).
• Community of Care Archives
  Quarterly home telehealth newsletter archives from the Information for Tomorrow website. Topics include: telehospice, tele-palliative care, home telehealth and Medicaid, home telehealth for obesiety, telecare in the UK, and more.
• Developing a Business Plan for Home Telehealth
  Author/editor: Charissa Ashman, Sam Burgiss
  Date: April 2006
  An article from the New York State Association of Health Care Providers about how to develop a business plan for home telehealth programs. Includes a section on calculating ROI for home telehealth Adobe PDF
• Developing Multimodal Intelligent Affective Interfaces for Tele-Home Health Care
  Tele-home health care provides communication options between the medical professional and patient when hands-on care is not required.
• Funding & Home Telehealth: Some Roads To Travel To Get There
  Online article and resources regarding home telehealth funding from Information for Tomorrow Telehealth Services.
• Health and Medical Tourism
  With rising health care costs and long waits, many patients from the West are looking into medical value travel for all of their treatment needs. But not only are these patients receiving quality care at unbelievable prices; they are also enjoying exotic getaways to exciting destinations. To find out more about this exciting trend, visit the Health & Medical Tourism page.
• Helping Patients Manage Their Chronic Conditions
  Author/editor: Thomas Bodenheimer MD, et al.
  Date: June 2005
  This report from the California HealthCare Foundation describes five interlocking strategies that help caregivers work successfully within the collaborative model. It also reviews literature describing the effectiveness of self-management support methods. Adobe PDF
• High-Tech Revolutionizes Health Care at Home
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: January 27, 2005
  In the beginning, personal wellness monitoring meant the bathroom scale and the mercury thermometer. Then they went electronic, and home blood-pressure devices became common. Today, it wouldn't be shocking to see a home cardiac defibrillator sitting in the corner. And it's all getting linked wirelessly to home computers and cell phones, as a health revolution is creeping quietly into our lives.
• Home Care and Hospice State Associations
  A directory of all National Association of Home Care (NAHC) associations and hospices.
• Home Health Telemanagement Service
  From the University of Illinois at Chicago. Performs ongoing disease telemanagement utilizing the Home Health Monitor (HHM) and the objective physiologic data it provides.
• Home Telehospice
  A wide variety of information on technology and hospice care from the Information for Tomorrow Web site.
• HomeCare On-line
  The virtual headquarters of the National Association for Home Care (NAHC).
• Homes That Makes House Calls
  In MIT researcher Kent Larson's "smart home," technologies that keep a close eye on your health will be built in.
• Information for Tomorrow
  A consultant specializing in home telemedicine applications.
• Intel Exploratory Health
  Research at Intel on to explore evidence-based technologies to help consumers be more proactive in managing their health and wellness needs at home, work, and play.
• iTeleHealth, Inc.
  iTeleHealth Inc. is a multi-industry connector whose mission is to develop processes, services, structures, and resources in telehealth, with a focus on alternative care sites including home care, assisted living, nursing homes, disease management, etc.
• Kansas Care Inc.
  Offers comprehensive home health services, including telemedicine.
• Missouri Telehospice Project
  The Missouri Telehospice Project aims to investigate with a control-experimental design the impact of a telehospice model on satisfaction with delivered care, caregiver burden, crisis prevention rates and overall cost of delivered care. Five hospice agencies in West Plains, St. Louis, Springfield, Moberly and Columbia, Missouri are participating in this project.
• National Association of Home Care and Hospice
  NAHC is committed to representing the interests of the home care and hospice community.
• Nurse and Patient Preferences for Telehealth Home Care
  Health care planners and providers are becoming increasingly interested in the home as a site of health care delivery. Recent advances in telecommunication technologies have enabled the direct provision of services to patients in the home using tools such as videophones and data transmission over phone lines.
• Other Home Health Links on the TIE
  More links to outside resources found in the LINKS section of the TIE.
• Patient Self-Management Tools: An Overview
  Author/editor: Michael J. Barrett
  Date: June 2005
  This report from the California HealthCare Foundation defines self-management tools as technologies used by consumers to deal with their health issues outside formal medical institutions and provides a taxonomy for better understanding the types of self-management tools available in today’s market. Adobe PDF
• Patients get high-tech health care in a dose of 'telemedicine'
  A program called telemedicine, and it's beginning to take hold as a way to use new technology so nurses can monitor the health of homebound patients via a two-way link.
• Pennsylvania Home Care Association Telehealth Research
  Reports from the Pennsylvania Homecare Association on the cost-effectiveness of home telehealth, and how it has affected nursing recruitment and retention.
• Perspectives of Home Health Care
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: September 2003
  A Health Care Industry Market Update from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), examining freestanding home health agencies and respiratory and infusion services. Adobe PDF
• RFID Keeps Track of Seniors
  Author/editor: Mark Baard
  Date: March 19, 2004
  Researchers have built two new systems that use radio frequency identification tags to monitor the elderly in their own homes. An article from Wired News.
• Senior living complex goes high-tech
  Site's apartments, houses will offer locators, sensors, cameras.
• Technology for Long Term Care
  Information on hundreds of technology products to improve quality of life and care for seniors in long-term care settings. This government-funded site is intended to inform your purchasing decisions; we do not sell products.
• Telehealth Handbook from the Centre for Telehealth
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: 2003
  This Handbook is a resource to the growing number of people working in the field of telehealth, with a particular focus on applications in the area of mental health and addictions. Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation Unit (Mheccu). Adobe PDF
• Telehealth in Homecare: Changing our Future
  Author/editor: Community Health Care Services Foundation
  Date: 2006
  A educational brochure about home telehealth developed by the Community Health Care Services Foundation, Inc. Adobe PDF
• Telehomecare and Remote Monitoring: An Outcomes Overview
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: 11/01/2007
  A report by the Advanced Medical Technology Association which is based on a review of published studies on telehomecare and remote monitoring. It focused primarily on how these technologies have impacted the care of patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Adobe PDF
• Telemedicine in the Ambulatory Setting: Trends, Opportunites and Challenges
  This report by First Consulting Group reviews the opportunities for providers in the two main areas of telemedicine: remote consulting and home monitoring and discusses some of the considerations in getting started.
• Telemonitors Can Provide Virtual Assisted Living
  Author/editor: Warren Wolfe
  Date: December 1, 2003
  Telemedicine that links patients with doctors in remote clinics is not a new concept. But it is a new tool in Windom, Minnesota, creating "virtual assisted living", that can help frail people avoid unnecessary hospital or nursing home stays.
• TelHoc
  A project located at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Panum Institute, Denmark.
• The Aware Home
  The Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI) is an interdisciplinary research endeavor at Georgia Tech aimed at addressing the fundamental technical, design, and social challenges presented in creating a home environment that is aware of its occupants whereabouts and activities.
• The Dawning Age of "Silver Tech"
  Networked devices that keep tabs on at-risk elderly patients living at home could soon provide better care -- and cut costs.
• The Electronic HouseCall Project
  The Electronic HouseCall (EHC) System is a network approach for assisting patient-centric healthcare management. The EHC system was developed as a collaborative research program by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Medical College of Georgia.
• Using Telephone Support to Manage Chronic Disease
  Author/editor: John D. Piette PhD
  Date: June 2005
  A free report available for download from the California Healthcare Foundation. The report is aimed at clinicians and health care managers,and describes the benefits and challenges of telephone care programs. Adobe PDF

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