Telemedicine 101

Evaluation

• 2001 Report to Congress on Telemedicine: Evaluation and Research
  The Evaluation and Research section of the 2001 Report to Congress specifically examined other studies of patient and physician satisfaction, and cost savings.
• A Methodology for Telehealth Evaluation in Australia
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: Spring, 2000
  From Australia's Better Health Outcomes Newsletter vol 6 no 3, Spring 2000.
• Assessment of Approaches to Evaluating Telemedicine
  Author/editor: The Lewin Group, Inc.
  Date: December, 2000
  The DHHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) contracted with The Lewin Group to assess current approaches to evaluating telemedicine. The purpose of this study is not to evaluate telemedicine, but rather to identify the different kinds of issues on which telemedicine evaluations can focus, and the kinds of information that such evaluations can yield. This report is intended to guide future evaluators and policy makers in selecting the questions that they want to answer regarding the value of telemedicine programs, and in designing evaluations that will best serve their interests and purposes.
• Exploratory Evaluation of Rural Applications of Telemedicine
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: February 1, 1997
  From the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP). This project, which was the first nationwide survey of rural telemedicine, examined the status of rural telemedicine. It also developed evaluation tools and methods for agencies and individual programs to use in assessing the contribution of telemedicine to rural health care delivery. Adobe PDF

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