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- ItemAn economic analysis of email-based telemedicine: a cost minimisation study of two service models.(2008-06-06) Caffery, Liam; Smith, Anthony C; Scuffham, Paul AEmail based telemedicine has been reported to be an efficient method of delivering online health services to patients at a distance and is often described as a low cost form of telemedicine The service may be low cost if the healthcare organisation utilise their existing email infrastructure to provide their telemedicine service Many healthcare organisations use commercial off the shelf COTS email applications COTS email applications are designed for peer to peer communication hence in situations where multiple clinicians need to be involved COTS applications may be deficient in delivering telemedicine Larger services often rely on different staff disciplines to run their service and telemedicine tools for supervisors clinicians and administrative staff are not available in COTS applications Hence some organisations may choose to develop a purpose written email application to support telemedicine We have conducted a cost minimisation analysis of two different service models for establishing and operating an email service The first service model used a COTS email application and the second used a purpose written telemedicine application
- ItemImplementation of a Web-based teleradiology management system.(2004-12-17) Caffery, Liam; Manthey, KenFive Queensland hospitals have been equipped with picture archiving and communication systems PACS Patient transfers from one facility to another involve transferring images from PACS to PACS We have developed a Web based teleradiology management system TMS that automates the transfer of images and radiologists reports as well as the quality control and housekeeping associated with teleradiology The TMS was installed at all five hospitals During a two month study period 752 studies were transmitted All studies and associated radiologists reports arrived correctly at the destination hospital together with the notification email for the system administrators PACS support personnel agreed that the TMS significantly reduced the amount of time they spent on image transfers Staff at the busiest site estimated that the time they spent on image transfer had decreased from 10 h per week to 1 h per week