Telemedicine
Applications for Riley Hospital for Children
James Whitcomb Riley Hospital For Children
Clarian
Health Partners
Peter M. Michael I-65 at 21st Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Ph:
317-962-2373 Fax: 317)-962-9320
http://clarian.org
Email : pmichael@clarian.org
Network
Partners: Union Hospital & Health System,
and Bedford Regional Medical Center will be operational
by 3/31/04. Decatur County Memorial Hospital and Howard
Community Hospital will be operational by 6/30/06.
La Porte Regional Health System, Goshen Health System,
and Tipton Hospital will be operation by 9/30/03.
Project
Purpose: Patients and their families will be able
to be treated more frequently close to home. Local
physicians will have an additional resource that will
improve their capabilities to treat patients and allow
the local physician to care for patients rather than
referring them to a distant pediatric specialty hospital.
The equipment now available at Union will enhance
educational programs for residents and first and second
year medical students. Provides distance learning
by offering professional for-credit and not-for-credit
education.
Outcomes
Expected: Patients and their families will be
able to treated close to home more frequently. Local
physicians will have an additional resource that will
improve their capabilities.
Service
Area: One whole county HPSA. One partial county
MUA and MUP. One partial county MUA and one partial
county MUP. One Critical Access Hospital.
Services
Provided: Services that are planned include: physician-to-physician
tele-consultations; physician and patient conferences
with Riley Hospital specialist physicians; Patient
to Riley Hospital subspecialty physician consultations;
and subspecialty consultation during emergency, surgical,
or invasive procedures.
Equipment:
Polycom on videoconferencing equipment and AMD telemedicine
diagnostic equipment are being purchased.
Transmission:
T1 lines and PACS transmission stations will be used.
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