Telehealth Video Resource Center

TVRC Current News

Announcements

Ohio center focused on global telehealth applications launches website to promote services, membership
March 18, 2009
The recently established Telehealth Video Resource Center (TVRC) today officially launched a website to make the center’s videoconferencing services easily available to physicians and healthcare education professionals worldwide. More...

Secure videoconferencing provides key to enhancing education, research collaboration, savings OARnet study seeks balance of security, quality in videoconferencing
February 6, 2009
Some technologists see a day in the not-so-distant future when advances in videoconferencing will allow the quickly maturing technology to greatly enhance distance education, boost research collaboration and reduce travel and meeting costs. More...

Center established to offer online medical education and videoconferencing to world’s physicians
October 13, 2008
The University System of Ohio is soon to be a global hub for online medical education and videoconferencing following a decision to fund the creation of a resource center in Columbus. More...

Governor Strickland, international panel of experts consider establishing Telehealth Video Resource Center
April 22, 2008
Ohio may soon be widely recognized as the global hub of sophisticated videoconferencing technologies following a meeting April 16 of an international group of telehealth experts convened by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to consider the benefits of establishing a Telehealth Video Resource Center in Columbus. More..

HD videoconferencing links critical care newborns from rural hospitals to tertiary care facilities, specialists
January 30, 2008
Without ever leaving the nursery, fragile babies born at Chillicothe’s Adena Regional Medical Center are receiving clinical assessments from specialists an hour away at Nationwide Children’s Hospital — thanks to high-definition videoconferencing capabilities made possible via the Ohio Supercomputer Center. More...

Four telehealth networks will leverage OSCnet to aid Ohio communities
November 26, 2007
Four regional telehealth networks that will leverage the speed and connections of OSCnet are among 69 projects nationwide receiving $417 million in federal funding to “significantly increase access to acute, primary and preventive health care in rural America.” More...

Articles

National Coordinator Named
Federal Telemedicine News
March 22, 2009
HHS on March 20th announced that David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P is the Obama Administration’s choice for National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. As the National Coordinator, Dr. Blumenthal will lead the implementation of a nationwide interoperable privacy-protected health information technology infrastructure as called for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. More...

High-tech help
Columbus CEO
November 1, 2008
Telemedicine allows doctors to treat patients remotely, cutting down on costly medical transports. But financial stumbling blocks have limited the field's growth. More...

Center established to offer online medical education and videoconferencing to world's physicians
Medical News Today
October 18, 2008
The University System of Ohio is soon to be a global hub for online medical education and
videoconferencing following a decision to fund the creation of a resource center in Columbus. More...

Telehealth/telemedicine
RedOrbit
August 17, 2008
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has awarded a $15.5 million grant to the Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center to design, build, operate and evaluate the Southwest Telehealth Access Grid - a broadband network meant to serve rural areas lacking the technology. More...

Use of telemedicine expanding in Ohio
Cleveland Plain Dealer
June 29, 2008
The growth of telemedicine is being fueled by the decreasing cost of the technology, the lure of gaining
access to medical specialists without having to travel, and the prospect of lowering health-care costs by
keeping patients out of more expensive hospitals, said Jonathan Linkous, chief executive officer of the
American Telemedicine Association. More...

Nation’s top public health experts gather for web conference on environment
OSU College of Public Health Web site
April 7, 2008
Researchers at The Ohio State University College of Public Health have gathered some of the nation’s top experts in public health and the environment for a Web-based conversation on the current state of our planet’s health, as a part of National Public Health Week, April 7-13. More...

Telemedicine technology enhances pediatric telehealth [program]
Healthcare IT
February 4, 2008
Without ever leaving the nursery, babies born at Ohio's Chillicothe's Adena Regional Medical Center are receiving clinical assessments from specialists an hour away at Columbus' Nationwide Children's Hospital. High-definition videoconferencing capabilities are making the assessments possible via the Ohio Supercomputer Center. More...

More infants staying with moms
Chillicothe Gazette
January 31, 2008
Although baby Owen was transported to Columbus for emergency care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Kellie was able to see him live and see what specialists in Columbus told her about his health thanks to new telemedice equipment linking the two hospitals. More...

Rural clinics see a boon in broadband
Business First Columbus
November 30, 2007
Secure, high-speed Internet connections to isolated pediatric and dental clinics in hamlets such as McArthur and Crooksville can not only bring virtual doctors to rural Ohio but help attract and keep the flesh-and-blood types, community hospital administrators say. More...

Delivering on a Partnership: Scaling-up Healthcare Programs to Latin America via Advanced Network
Guarare (World Bank publication)
October, 2006
As reported in a previous issue of “Guararé”, in July of 2005 David Gray, Coordinator of GDLN Americas and Florencio Utreras, the Executive Director of RedCLARA the organization charged with promoting cooperation within Latin America on Advanced Networks signed a Letter of Understanding. More...