Telehealth 
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IntroductionThe telehealth working group is administered by Simon Hayden, Chief Executive of the New Zealand TelePaediatric Service. Email ListTelehealth has an email discussion and announcement list. Join the telehealth email discussion list to stay informed on activites in this area and connect with other telehealth professionals and academics. What is Telehealth?Telehealth is the delivery of health related services and information via telecommunications technologies. It may be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over the telephone, or as sophisticated as using technology to broadcast a consultation between providers at facilities in two countries, using videoconferencing equipment or robotic technology. If you have any queries regarding telehealth in NZ or would like to know more about using the NZTPS medical video conferncing service please contact Simon at the above email. http://tie.telemed.org/ ; The Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE) is a Library of Medicine-funded web pages which offers comprehensive information on telemedicine. TIE is a comprehensive, international, quality-filtered resource for information about telemedicine, telehealth, and telemedicine/telehealth related activities. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/ ; News source for helathcare information technology. This site offers a free subscription and has some useful Health IT reasoruces. TeleHealth Conferences: If you would like more information on these conferences, please contact me. 3rd International e-Health & Telemedicine Workshop 27th – 28th November 2008 The Centre for e-Health is holding the 3rd International e-Health and Telemedicine workshop. This year we have put together a new and exciting format as suggested by previous participants. Experts from around the globe will be ready to discuss successfully implemented telemedicine and e-Health projects. Topics of discussion include:
Be prepared to take home a new knowledge and understanding of how to implement and successfully run telemedicine projects. For more information or to register your interest today contact Karen Monticelli Phone: +61 8 9381 0858 Email: karen@lei.org.au or karen.monticelli@uwa.edu.au 8th International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth We wish to advise that the 8th International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth has been postponed until 2009 (date to be confirmed). Further advertisements will be issued in due course.
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