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

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

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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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
Second Opinion Program Aims to Help Improve Cancer Care Recognizing the importance of getting an accurate cancer diagnosis from the beginning, a handful of companies are taking advantage of a program that gives a second opinion to people who have a cancer diagnosis. Offered through Partners HealthCare System, Inc.’s Center for Connected Health, Partners Online Specialty Consultations is a website that offers second opinions from specialists at a Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospital.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 | AIS Health.com
Telehealth Links Doctors To Remote Patients In Need Our Connected Pediatric Critical Care program, which lets on-call attending physicians examine patients from their homes and communicate with on-site pediatric ICU staff using real-time videoconferencing and robotic gear, is featured in this story.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | InformationWeek
American Well enables online specialist consultations at point of careMoving beyond its previous telehealth offerings, which enable online doctor visits from the home or office, the company's newest product, Online Care Team Edition, will "transform the availability of healthcare services inside the primary care physician's office," American Well president and CEO Roy Schoenberg tells Healthcare IT News.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | Healthcare IT News
Cisco, Colorado to partner on tech initiativesTechnology company Cisco Systems Inc. and Colorado's state government will be partners in pilot projects aiming to improve rural health care and education, and reduce energy consumption in some state buildings.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | Denver Business Journal
Area doctors treat patients onlineBlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, one of the region’s largest health insurers, plans to introduce online care this year, a service that allows patients to connect with a physician on demand 24 hours a day using webcams for video links, or secure text messages or telephone conversations.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | Buffalo News
 

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