AMD (
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Alert) Telemedicine has compiled a list of the institutions offering telemedicine initiatives. In their list, the company noted that there are 23 separate initiatives for telemedicine that are in the form of courses, clinical programs or affiliated hospital networks, are in some way tied-up to 23 U.S. colleges, universities and schools of medicine. The company, further, issued a call to all other schools in the country and around the world to register on the list, if they too provide such initiatives.
"Telemedicine initiatives that connect hospitals and learning institutions - both those we've spotlighted and others that we were not able to identify as yet - help to educate not only physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners, but also patients," said Steven Normandin, president of AMD.
He went on further to elaborate, explaining that telemedicine allows medical practitioners to provide a certain level of care, notwithstanding the distance of an actual patient. Doctors are able to examine, diagnose and advise treatments to patients that could be hundreds and thousands of miles away. This would, in effect, be the same as an actual office visit.
The benefits of such an approach are numerous; some of the more prominent ones reflect in the shortening of time to treatment, reduce costs drastically and, of course, most importantly, save lives. AMD’s online enquiries have revealed some outstanding instances of some real telehealth/telemedicine programs in action. He ended saying, the company wished to continuously update their compendium to cover more educational initiatives of the same nature, globally.
By conducting this study, AMD has been able to learn that out of all US colleges and universities found on the Internet, 14.6% of these institutions offer telemedicine as an educational program. 7% of those college and universities include clinics, centres, programs, institutes, amongst other facilities.
The 23 schools that form the 14.6% are as follows:
- East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine
- Howard University, College of Medicine
- Loma Linda University
- Medical College of Georgia
- Mount Aloysius College
- Mount Sinai, School of Medicine
- Oklahoma State University
- Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine
- Texas Tech University, Center for Telemedicine
- The University of Hawaii, Telehealth Research Institute
- The University of Vermont
- UCDavis School of Medicine
- University of Arizona, Arizona Telemedicine Program
- University of Colorado at Denver
- University of Florida
- University of Kansas, Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth
- University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
- University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine
- University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry
- University of Tennessee, Health Science Center
- University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Nursing
- University of Utah, Health Sciences Center
- University of Virginia, Office of Telemedicine
Each school has a separate program that is independent from the others.
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