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  • Technical advice to current and future telehealth sites
  • Help with clinical protocol development
  • Help with strategic and business planning
  • Assist with evaluation tools and approaches
  • Identify provider organizations offering particular clinical applications
  • Provide information about continuing medical education video offerings
  • Collaborate with policy makers

Live and/or Webcast Offerings of Interactive Video Presentations 

Connecticut
Yale University School of Medicine--Continuing Medical Education Online
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry—Psychiatry CME Webcasts

Maine
Eastern Maine Medical Center--Grand Rounds
Maine Medical Center--Continuing Education for Healthcare Professionals
Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, State of Maine, Department of Health and Human Services—Multidisciplinary Psychiatric Grand Rounds

Massachusetts
Adirondack Area Network--Video Program Calendar; Video Streams (Webcast archive); Site Registration
Beth Israel Medical Center/St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center--Continuing Medical Education
Harvard Medical School--Continuing Medical Education Online
Partners TeleStroke Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital--Monthly Video Grand Rounds
Tufts-New England Medical Center—Grand Rounds in Psychiatry
Virtual Grand Rounds in Dermatology, Williamstown, Mass. (David Elpern, Course Director)—Webcast Archive

New Hampshire
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center--Grand Rounds and Continuing Medical Education

New York
Albany Medical Center–Interactive HIV Treatment Education (for New York providers)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine—Cyberounds
Boston University School of Medicine--Internet-Based CME
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine--Online CME Archive
New York Consortium for Emergency Preparedness Continuing Education—Webcast Archive
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary—Grand Rounds Webcast Archive
New York State Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons--Case of the Month Grand Rounds Archive
State University of New York at Albany, School of Public Health--Women's Health Grand
Rounds by Satellite Video; Webcast Archives
State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center—Surgical Grand Rounds Webcasts

Vermont
University of Vermont College of Medicine--Grand Rounds

National CME Offerings
American Academy of Family Physicians--Online CME Center
American College of Preventative Medicine--Online CME Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--Webcasts and Satellite Presentations
Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law—Live and Archived "Brown Bag" Presentations on Telehealth
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle—Online Grand Rounds
NIH Clinical Center—Videocasts-Live and Archived

Online Resources:

Telehealth Capacity and Needs in Northeast
Links for Telemedicine Programs/Networks
Telemedicine Inventory for Northeast
Telemedicine Maps
Comprehensive Webliography of Telehealth Resources

Selected Clinical Telehealth Protocols from Maine (Word docs)
--Informed Consent
--Reimbursement Policy and Procedures
--Tele-mental health Protocol for Correctional Inmates
--Protocol for Medical ASL Interpretation for the Deaf--Video Relay Interpreting
--Tele-Wound Care Protocol for Nursing Home Residents
--Tele-Pain management Protocol
--Tele-pharmacy Protocol


Major resource gateways:

American Telemedicine Association: www.americantelemed.org
--especially useful: archived presentations from ATA conferences, policy papers, tools from telehealth Special Interest Groups

Center for Telehealth and E-Health Law: www.ctel.org
--recommended: live “Brown Bag” and archived video presentations and policy reports
Northeast Telehealth Resource Center —Extended “Webliography” of telehealth resources, regional programs, selected protocols:
www.NortheastTRC.org/ClinicalOutcomes-Heinzelmann.pdf

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth: www.hrsa.gov/telehealth/
--check out: compendium of federal grant programs, directories of OAT grantees, and policy reports

Telemedicine Information Exchange: http://tie.telemed.org/
--searchable bibliographic database, news archive, telehealth program summaries, and repository of reports

 

Free Journals/Issues:

Telemedicine Journal and E Health—free issue (Dec. 2009)--
www.liebertonline.com/tmj

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare—free issue (Dec. 2008):
http://jtt.rsmjournals.com/subscriptions/sample.dtl

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (new open access journal)--
www.hindawi.com/journals/ijta/

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (after 12 months)--
http://www.jamia.org

Journal of Medical Internet Research--
www.jmir.org

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine—free issue on rural telehealth (Vol. 51, Issue 4, 2005)--
www.jpmonline.com