ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: The increasing and widespread availability of personal
technology offers patients and clinicians the opportunity to utilize real-time virtual …

Introduction: Telemedicine has been utilized in various healthcare areas to achieve better
patient outcomes, lower costs of providing services, and increase patient access to care …

Psychiatric care for nursing home residents is difficult to obtain, especially in rural areas, and
this deficiency may lead to significant morbidity or death. Providing this service by …

Successful telemedicine programs that went beyond demonstration and pilot project efforts
started appearing in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s, 1, 2 and many of …

Purpose To involve elderly people during the development of a mobile interface of a
monitoring system that provides feedback to them regarding changes in physical functioning …

Background Intensive care unit telemedicine is an innovative approach to providing critical
care services for a broad geographic area, but its success may depend on acceptance by …

The importance of public policy as a complementary framework for telehealth, telemedicine,
and by association telerehabilitation, has been recognized by a number of experts. The …

Congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and hypertension
are common causes of hospitalization in the elderly. Short-term postdischarge clinical …

Abstract Objective: The Gulf Coast continues to struggle with service need far outpacing
available resources. Since 2005, the Regional Coordinating Center for Hurricane Response …

Telerehabilitation (TR) is an important subdiscipline of telemedicine. Although its history is
relatively brief compared to other areas of telemedicine, it has quickly emerged as an area of …