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Governmental Sponsored Sites
On-Line Texts
Books
Resource Reports
Glossaries

Global Doctor utilises Telemedicine in a unique and innovative way. The use of the new technology of video conferencing allows Global Doctor to deliver the highest standards of health care to patients overseas and in remote areas.

Telemedicine itself is not new however. The Internet contains many websites that provide a background to its origin, as well as thorough information on its many applications and benefits.

This page contains a series of links that will enable you to explore and learn about other Telehealth projects in the world today.

An excellent introductory site is the Telemedicine Group, Inc.
http://www.telemedicine.com

Government Sponsored Sites

Med Web Plus Telemedicine - comprehensive list of telemedicine links.
http://www.medwebplus.com/subject/Telemedicine.html

Australia

Government funded Telemedicine projects in Australia including the Queensland Tardis project.
http://archive.dstc.edu.au/tardis/

New Zealand

If you’re trying to find the latest guidelines, check out the list of evidence based guidelines form New Zealand at
http://www.nzgg.org.nz/library.cfm

United Kingdom

British guidelines are available at
http://www.healthcentre.org.uk

Canadian

Canadian guidelines on
http://www.cma.ca/cpgs/index.asp

For travellers, the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has up-to-date advice. Its database is searchable by destination and has comprehensive travel advice and vaccination schedules.
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/destinat.htm

Travel Health Online harvests information from CDC, WHO, US Department of State and newspapers and is searchable by destination, disease or vaccine.
http://www.tripprep.com

On-line Text

Telemedicine Today – the Health Newsmagazine.
http://www.telemedtoday.com

The Georgia Hospital Association's association of Hospitals and Health Systems - monthly audio teleconference on a variety of telemedicine subjects.
http://www.gha.org/telnet/index.html

Bi-monthly academic magazine covering the field of Telemedicine in mainland China, directed by the information office of the Ministry of Health, and run by Golden Health Medical Network Co. Ltd.
http://www.2919.net/jw/english/GOLDEN%20HEALTH/Telemedicine3.htm

Rural Telecommunications - Monthly online magazine of rural telecommunications management from the National Telephone Cooperative Association.
http://www.ntca.org/pubs/media.html

An electronic magazine from Feed-back.com – Advanced Market Research for Telemedicine Health Care.
http://www.feed-back.com/ezine.htm

Video Conferencing Insight - Monthly publication from the UK. on video conferencing.
http://www.videoconferencing.co.uk/

Virtual Medical Worlds - Monthly telemedicine digest.
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/00/articles/index.html


Books


Guide to Medical Informatics, the Internet and Telemedicine.

http://www.coiera.com/cover.htm

Free online booklet from the Virtual Hospital, provides an entry level introduction for those with limited knowledge of Teleradiology technology.
http://www.radiology.uiowa.edu/MoreRAD/Teleradiology/Tele.html

MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's on-line bibliographic database, is an index to the world's biomedical literature.
http://www.ashburypress.com

Telecom Information Resources on the Internet.
http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/telecom-info.html

Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5296.html

Telemedicine – Practice and Theory.
http://www.sph.umich.edu/telemed/tm_book.htm


Reports

Telemedicine Overview – 3 Com Converged Network Solutions.

http://www.3com.com/solutions/convergence/telemedicine/overview.html

Glossaries
The American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.

http://www.acponline.org/computer/telemedicine/glossary.htm

Approximately 200 words and phrases related to Telemedicine.
http://www.atsp.org/telemedicine/glossary.asp

 

 
     
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