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Telemedicine and Telehealth:

Selected World Wide Web Resources

Introduction

The selected World Wide Web (WWW) sites listed here provide information about telemedicine and telehealth information resources. Many other sources are available and can be found by using the various World Wide Web search engines such as Lycos, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc. Effective words for finding additional sources include telemedicine, telehealth, or distance learning. If your favorite telemedicine/telehealth site was left off, please let us know!

Starting Points

Applied Rural Telecom Resource Guide (AeRie)

The AeRie Applied Rural Telecom Resource Guide provides rural communities throughout the United States and the world with a toolkit of resources to help them meet their economic and community development goals using telecommunications. The Guide offers a directory of economic development resources, an overview of basic telecommunications concepts, a schedule of upcoming conferences and events, and background information on rural infrastructure. The guide contains a section on health care and telemedicine.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/aerie
 

Jim Cabal's Telemedicine Resources

Compiled at the University of Washington, this is a listing of resources and services available on the WWW.
http://icsl.ee.washington.edu/~clau/tmresources.html
 

Telemedicine Information Exchange

A comprehensive, on-line source of information about telemedicine. Includes searchable databases of active telemedicine projects, meetings, and funding sources. Also includes references to current journal citations in telemedicine.
http://tie.telemed.org/
 

Yahoo!

Web search engine that provides subject categories of Web sites. To find telemedicine, follow the path Health>Medicine>Informatics>Telemedicine. In addition to its subject arrangement, Yahoo! provides the capability for text searching.
http://www.yahoo.com/
 

Electronic Journals

Telecommunications On-Line

Online magazine devoted to telecommunications. Has links to trade show information, vendors, products, and an online sampler of articles. Free subscription available upon registration.
http://www.telecoms-mag.com
 

Government Sources

CRISP

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. The database, maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, includes projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMSHA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), Agency for Health Care Policy Research (AHCPR), and Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH). Users, including the public, can use the CRISP interface to search for scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques, or identify specific projects and/or investigators. Below you will be able to access additional general information about the CRISP database, as well as obtain answers to questions frequently asked about CRISP. In addition, this home page serves as the gateway to interactive searching of Current or Historical Award Information.
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
 

National Institutes of Health

The home page for the NIH provides links to a number of NIH resources, including The NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts which provides information about grant and contract project funding.
http://www.nih.gov/
 

Listservs

RURALNET-L on listserv@musom01.mu.wvnet.edu.

Rural Health Care Email Discussion List from the Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia. Students, faculty, practitioners and other health care professionals are welcome to participate. This forum focuses on discussions of delivery, improvement, technology deployment, education and outcomes-based research in rural health care.
 

TXDLA-Health on Texas Distance Learning Association

Telehealth Special Interest Group on listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu. Discussion list sponsored by the Telehealth Special Interest Group which includes announcements of future meetings for this group.
 

Texas Resources

The UTMB TeleHealth Center

"The Center is committed to promoting the use of teletechnology to provide patient- and family-focused care in a healing environment. It also provides other institutions with assistance in developing and implementing telemedicine and distance education programs."
http://www.utmb.edu/telehealth/
 

Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) TeleHealth Special Interest Group

This site contains many links to associations, universities, hospitals, libraries, and rural health sites, with an emphasis on Texas. Information is also given on how to subscribe to a listserv focuses on telehealth in Texas.
http://www3.baylor.edu/TxDLA/HealthMed.html
 

UTHSCSA Family Medicine Grand Rounds on the Web

A virtual library of more than two dozen South Texas Regional Family Medicine Grand Rounds lectures by expert speakers. Past presentations have provided information on stroke prevention, oral therapy for diabetes, radiation medicine, cancer screening, heat-related illnesses and much more.
http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/grandrounds05/virtual_lib/Virtuallib.htm