Reading room: Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' health status. This typically involves remote consultations with specialists to supports care delivery as well as health education and the transfer of medical data.

This online reading room brings together details of books, reports and journal articles on telemedicine which are held by the King's Fund Information and Library Service (many of which are available in full text as links). It also offers links to relevant organisations and other information resources.

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  • International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare

    King's Fund, - King's Fund, 2011 . Video files This congress brought together speakers from around the world to showcase innovations and best practice in the deployment of telehealth and telecare

  • Planning network infrastructure for telemedicine needs in 2015.

    Wray, Melvyn. - By Wray, Melvyn. 2011 Melvyn Wray of Allied Telesis explores the increasing use of telemedicine and the tangible benefits that can come from embracing it. He also offers advice for planning the future network requirements to support it. [Introduction]

  • Telerehabilitation in stroke care - a systematic review.

    Johansson, Tim. - By Johansson, Tim. 2011 We conducted a systematic review of telerehabilitation interventions in stroke care. The following databases were searched: Medline, Embase, DARE-NHSEED-HTA (INAHTA) and the Cochrane Library. Nine studies, all published after 2000, were included in the review. A wide variety of telemedicine interventions in post-stroke rehabilitation care was identified. Four studies had been carried out in the USA, two in the Netherlands, two in Italy and one in China. There were four randomized controlled trials and one qualitative analysis. Four studies used an observational study design/case series. Home-based telerehabilitation interventions showed promising results in improving the health of stroke patients and in supporting caregivers. Telemedicine systems based on a virtual environment for upper extremity exercise can improve the physical health of stroke patients. Health professionals and participants reported high levels of satisfaction and acceptance of telerehabilitation interventions. There was no evidence regarding the effects on resource utilization or cost-effectiveness. Most studies showed promising results, although overall, the quality of the evidence on telerehabilitation in post-stroke care was low. [Abstract]
  • Liddell, A., Adshead, S. and Burgess, E. Technology in the NHS: Transforming the patient's experience of care. London: The King's Fund, October 2008
  • Whitehouse, Diane and Virtuoso, Salvatore. Telehealth 2007: telemedicine and innovative technologies for chronic disease management. Conference: Breydel Building, Brussels, 11 December 2007. Brussels: European Commission, 18 February 2006
  • eHealth strategy and implementation activities in England : report in the framework of the eHealth ERA project. London: EPSRC, Imperial College London and eHealth ERA Project, 2007
  • Telemedicine and e-health communication systems. IET Digital Library (whole issue), February 2008 Volume 2, Issue 2 , p. 179-397
  • Davey, Julia. Telemedicine as support for chronic disease management. British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management 2007; (September 2007)
  • Aas, I. H. Monrad. The organizational challenge for health care : telemedicine and e-health. Oslo: Work Research Institute, 2007
  • Innovations briefing : spreading and sustaining good ideas in health care. London: National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery Organisation, 2006 (See Case 3, 'Telemedicine: a maverick initiative')
  • Hersh, William R., et al. Clinical outcomes resulting from telemedicine interventions : a systematic review. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2002; 1 (5): (26 November 2001)

Information resources

  • Giorgino, Toni et al. The HOMEY project: a telemedicine service for hypertensive patients (published on the University of Liverpool website)
  • Gibson, Oliver et al. A mobile phone telemedicine system for the self-management of Type 1 diabetes: results of randomized controlled trial and measures of glycemic control (poster) (published on the University of Oxford website)
  • e-Health Insider

Related websites

  • Telemedicine and telehealth news (Telemedicine Information Exchange)
  • Telecare LIN (Includes links to some telehealth services) (Care Services Improvement Partnership)
  • Telecare Aware (Includes some telehealth stories)
  • Telecare Knowledge Network (online forum)
  • TEIS: UK Telemedicine and E-health information service: all activities (Contains some telehealth projects) (University of Portsmouth)