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- ItemLogistical aspects of large telemedicine networks. 1: Site directories.(2003-03-28) Wootton, Richard; Smith, Anthony C; Gormley, Sinead; Patterson, JessicaWe carried out a survey of the site coordinators in a mature telemedicine network of about 200 sites The site directory contained information about 221 videoconference facilities There were 191 site coordinators in all i e some coordinators were responsible for more than one site Of the 221 sites we were able to contact 87 on first attempt and 155 by the fourth attempt Thus there were 66 sites 30 which were not contactable We asked each site coordinator to describe any videoconference activity that had taken place over the previous five working days Of the contacted 155 sites 78 reported some videoconference activity during the period in question The total reported videoconference activity was 12 800 min during the one week monitoring period that is an estimated 924 h per month The most common categories of work were education or training 511 h and management or administration 225 h which between them accounted for 80 of all reported videoconference activity Fifty of the 155 sites 32 reported that the equipment was not located in an area suitable for patient consultations In addition 20 sites 13 volunteered that their videoconferencing facilities were not in working order at the time of the survey We did not ask this question in the survey so that this result represents a lower bound for the true number of inoperable systems
- ItemLogistical aspects of large telemedicine networks. 1: Site directories.(2003-00-03) Wootton, Richard; Smith, Anthony C; Gormley, Sinead; Patterson, JessicaWe carried out a survey of the site coordinators in a mature telemedicine network of about 200 sites The site directory contained information about 221 videoconference facilities There were 191 site coordinators in all i e some coordinators were responsible for more than one site Of the 221 sites we were able to contact 87 on first attempt and 155 by the fourth attempt Thus there were 66 sites 30 which were not contactable We asked each site coordinator to describe any videoconference activity that had taken place over the previous five working days Of the contacted 155 sites 78 reported some videoconference activity during the period in question The total reported videoconference activity was 12 800 min during the one week monitoring period that is an estimated 924 h per month The most common categories of work were education or training 511 h and management or administration 225 h which between them accounted for 80 of all reported videoconference activity Fifty of the 155 sites 32 reported that the equipment was not located in an area suitable for patient consultations In addition 20 sites 13 volunteered that their videoconferencing facilities were not in working order at the time of the survey We did not ask this question in the survey so that this result represents a lower bound for the true number of inoperable systems
- ItemLogistical aspects of large telemedicine networks. 2: Measurement of network activity.(2003-03-28) Wootton, Richard; Smith, Anthony C; Gormley, Sinead; Patterson, JessicaWe carried out a retrospective review of the videoconference activity records in a university run hospital telemedicine studio Usage records describing videoconferencing activity in the telemedicine studio were compared with the billing records provided by the telecommunications company During a seven month period there were 211 entries in the studio log 108 calls made from the studio and 103 calls made from a far end location We found that 103 calls from a total of 195 calls reported by the telecommunications company were recorded in the usage log The remaining 92 calls were not recorded probably for one of several reasons including failed calls a large number of unrecorded calls 57 lasted for less than 2 min median 1 6 min origin of videoconference calls calls may have been recorded incorrectly in the usage diary i e as being initiated from the far end when actually initiated from the studio and human error Our study showed that manual recording of videoconference activity may not accurately reflect the actual activity taking place Those responsible for recording and analysing videoconference activity particularly in large telemedicine networks should do so with care
- ItemLogistical aspects of large telemedicine networks. 2: Measurement of network activity.(2003-00-03) Wootton, Richard; Smith, Anthony C; Gormley, Sinead; Patterson, JessicaWe carried out a retrospective review of the videoconference activity records in a university run hospital telemedicine studio Usage records describing videoconferencing activity in the telemedicine studio were compared with the billing records provided by the telecommunications company During a seven month period there were 211 entries in the studio log 108 calls made from the studio and 103 calls made from a far end location We found that 103 calls from a total of 195 calls reported by the telecommunications company were recorded in the usage log The remaining 92 calls were not recorded probably for one of several reasons including failed calls a large number of unrecorded calls 57 lasted for less than 2 min median 1 6 min origin of videoconference calls calls may have been recorded incorrectly in the usage diary i e as being initiated from the far end when actually initiated from the studio and human error Our study showed that manual recording of videoconference activity may not accurately reflect the actual activity taking place Those responsible for recording and analysing videoconference activity particularly in large telemedicine networks should do so with care