Remote Consults & Virtual Visits

From video-based real time virtual visits to online consultations, the Center is providing patients with non-traditional access to specialty care.

Center for Connected Health Initiatives

Partners Online Speciality Consultations

Partners Online Specialty Consultations (POSC) is a web-based application that enables consumers and their physicians to have “anytime, anywhere” access to the knowledge base of the 4000+ specialists located at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners/Dana Farber Cancer Care.

Operation Village Health

This program is aimed at bringing sustainable and quality health care to underserved populations in Cambodia.

Nantucket Dermatology Clinic

The interactive teledermatology practice at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Nantucket Island and the ambulatory clinics at Massachusetts General Hospital provide patients on Nantucket Island with access to Harvard-affiliated dermatologists via interactive video conferencing.

Connected Pediatric Critical Care

Connected Pediatric Critical Care is a program that enables on-call attending physicians in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit (PICU) at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) to examine patients and communicate directly with the PICU staff, when the on-call attending physicians are at home during the overnight or weekends.

Psychology Virtual Visits

Veterans and their families who are patients of the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program will be able to have their follow-up visits via video.

Center for Connected Health Initiatives

Partners Online Speciality Consultations

Partners Online Specialty Consultations (POSC) is a web-based application that enables consumers and their physicians to have “anytime, anywhere” access to the knowledge base of the 4000+ specialists located at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners/Dana Farber Cancer Care.

Operation Village Health

This program is aimed at bringing sustainable and quality health care to underserved populations in Cambodia.

Nantucket Dermatology Clinic

The interactive teledermatology practice at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Nantucket Island and the ambulatory clinics at Massachusetts General Hospital provide patients on Nantucket Island with access to Harvard-affiliated dermatologists via interactive video conferencing.

Connected Pediatric Critical Care

Connected Pediatric Critical Care is a program that enables on-call attending physicians in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit (PICU) at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) to examine patients and communicate directly with the PICU staff, when the on-call attending physicians are at home during the overnight or weekends.

Psychology Virtual Visits

Veterans and their families who are patients of the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program will be able to have their follow-up visits via video.

Research Materials & External Resources

Comparative performance of seven long-running telemedicine networks delivering humanitarian services

This study suggests that telemedicine can provide clinically useful services in developing countries.

September 2012 | Wootton R, Geissbuhler A, Jethwani K, Kovarik C, Person DA, Vladzymyrskyy A, Zanaboni P, Zolfo M.

Long-running telemedicine networks delivering humanitarian services: experience, performance and scientific output

The authors summarized the experience, performance and scientific output of long-running telemedicine networks delivering humanitarian services.

May 2012 | Wootton R, Geissbuhler A, Jethwani K, Kovarik C, Person DA, Vladzymyrskyy A, Zanaboni P, Zolfo M

Cancer diagnosis and telemedicine: a case study from Cambodia

This pilot project has demonstrated that telemedicine can have a positive impact on the public health of very remote communities in the developing world.

June 2006 | Kvedar J, Heinzelmann PJ, Jacques G

Telemedicine by email in remote Cambodia

The success of the pilot telemedicine programme confirms the value of email support for non-physician health-care workers in the developing world.

November 2005 | Heinzelmann PJ, Jacques G, Kvedar JC

Delivering health care in rural Cambodia via store-and-forward telemedicine: a pilot study

The authors concluded that store-and-forward e-mail consultative support for mobile nonphysician health care workers is a feasible model for delivering care in the developing world.

February 2005 | Brandling-Bennett HA, Kedar I, Pallin DJ, Jacques G, Gumley GJ, Kvedar JC.

Research Materials & External Resources

Comparative performance of seven long-running telemedicine networks delivering humanitarian services

This study suggests that telemedicine can provide clinically useful services in developing countries.

September 2012 | Wootton R, Geissbuhler A, Jethwani K, Kovarik C, Person DA, Vladzymyrskyy A, Zanaboni P, Zolfo M.

Long-running telemedicine networks delivering humanitarian services: experience, performance and scientific output

The authors summarized the experience, performance and scientific output of long-running telemedicine networks delivering humanitarian services.

May 2012 | Wootton R, Geissbuhler A, Jethwani K, Kovarik C, Person DA, Vladzymyrskyy A, Zanaboni P, Zolfo M

Cancer diagnosis and telemedicine: a case study from Cambodia

This pilot project has demonstrated that telemedicine can have a positive impact on the public health of very remote communities in the developing world.

June 2006 | Kvedar J, Heinzelmann PJ, Jacques G

Telemedicine by email in remote Cambodia

The success of the pilot telemedicine programme confirms the value of email support for non-physician health-care workers in the developing world.

November 2005 | Heinzelmann PJ, Jacques G, Kvedar JC

Delivering health care in rural Cambodia via store-and-forward telemedicine: a pilot study

The authors concluded that store-and-forward e-mail consultative support for mobile nonphysician health care workers is a feasible model for delivering care in the developing world.

February 2005 | Brandling-Bennett HA, Kedar I, Pallin DJ, Jacques G, Gumley GJ, Kvedar JC.

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Study Finds Similar Outcomes From Online, In-Person Doctor VisitsOnline physician consultations for uncomplicated conditions produce similar outcomes as in-person office visits, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Thursday, January 17, 2013 | iHealthBeat
With Telemedicine as Bridge, No Hospital Is an IslandOn Nantucket, an island 30 miles from the nearest spit of mainland, “telemedicine just makes a lot of sense,” said Dr. Margot Hartmann, chief executive officer of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. “It allows us to meet the mission of the hospital better because we’re offering more locally,” and saves patients the cost and time of flying or ferrying off-island, then driving to Cape Cod or Boston hospitals.
Monday, October 8, 2012 | The New York Times
High Tech, No Touch: Are Virtual Doctor Visits in Your Future?Convenient and real-time from work, home, college or on vacation, e-healthcare is cost-effective for consumers, employers and a healthcare industry struggling to offer affordable healthcare models, reduce costs and expand services. Are you thinking, sign me up now? This next gen scenario for a doctor's visit is closer than you think.
Friday, September 28, 2012 | TechnologyGuide
CHS and Partners HealthCare Bring Real-Time Specialist Services to Large Employers NationwideCHS™ Health Services, Inc., a national workforce health management company specializing in onsite health care solutions, has created a strategic partnership with Boston-based Center for Connected Health. The two will jointly market their services nationally to deliver specialty care from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston using information technology to help patients access expert specialty healthcare providers in the Partners HealthCare network, to improve care, resulting in reduced overall employer healthcare costs.
Monday, July 23, 2012 | CHS
Partners in national telemedicine deal“We are committed to improving the quality and accessibility of specialized health care and expert second opinions via our Partners Online Specialty Consultation services, and support the strides made by CHS in setting the standard for onsite care,” Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar, founder and director at the Center for Connected Health.
Monday, July 23, 2012 | Mass High Tech
Virtual doctors visits catch on with insurers, employersInsurers such as United Healthcare, Aetna and Cigna, and large employers such as General Electric and Delta Air Lines are getting on board, pushing telemedicine as a way to make doctor "visits" cheaper and more easily available. Proponents also see it as an answer to a worsening doctor shortage.
Sunday, May 6, 2012 | USA TODAY
Online Doctor Consultations: Is medicine going remote?Just over 50 percent of adult Americans say they’d agree to an online doctor consultation and ask care-related questions. And more people said they’d like to take advantage of the web to make more routine aspects of doctor visits efficient.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | Houston Chronicle
Firms seek medical second opinionsSecond-opinion medical services can be an effective benefits cost-containment tool for mid-market employers as treatment costs for complex cases such as cancer and back injuries are soaring.
Sunday, December 4, 2011 | Business Insurance
When Your Therapist Is Only a Click AwaySkype, and encrypted digital software through third-party sites like CaliforniaLiveVisit.com, have made online private practice accessible for a broader swath of patients.
Friday, September 23, 2011 | The New York Times
Health-care communication, telemedicine empowers patientsJon Yeitrakis used to drive almost an hour each way to see his psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Orlando. Now, the Kissimmee resident and former Marine medic drives eight minutes to a local VA clinic. The doctor is still in Orlando. Yeitrakis is still in Kissimmee. But now Yeitrakis attends his 50-minute "tele-psychiatry" appointments over a two-way video system.
Monday, August 22, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

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Study Finds Similar Outcomes From Online, In-Person Doctor VisitsOnline physician consultations for uncomplicated conditions produce similar outcomes as in-person office visits, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Thursday, January 17, 2013 | iHealthBeat
With Telemedicine as Bridge, No Hospital Is an IslandOn Nantucket, an island 30 miles from the nearest spit of mainland, “telemedicine just makes a lot of sense,” said Dr. Margot Hartmann, chief executive officer of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. “It allows us to meet the mission of the hospital better because we’re offering more locally,” and saves patients the cost and time of flying or ferrying off-island, then driving to Cape Cod or Boston hospitals.
Monday, October 8, 2012 | The New York Times
High Tech, No Touch: Are Virtual Doctor Visits in Your Future?Convenient and real-time from work, home, college or on vacation, e-healthcare is cost-effective for consumers, employers and a healthcare industry struggling to offer affordable healthcare models, reduce costs and expand services. Are you thinking, sign me up now? This next gen scenario for a doctor's visit is closer than you think.
Friday, September 28, 2012 | TechnologyGuide
CHS and Partners HealthCare Bring Real-Time Specialist Services to Large Employers NationwideCHS™ Health Services, Inc., a national workforce health management company specializing in onsite health care solutions, has created a strategic partnership with Boston-based Center for Connected Health. The two will jointly market their services nationally to deliver specialty care from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston using information technology to help patients access expert specialty healthcare providers in the Partners HealthCare network, to improve care, resulting in reduced overall employer healthcare costs.
Monday, July 23, 2012 | CHS
 

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