Telemedicine and E-Health

My Experience

I believe that in the near future consumers will be making important choices for their healthcare. Choice one will include driving to an urban medical facility, paying a co-pay or meeting a large deductable after which they will wait in a crowded room to be seen by a suitable healthcare provider. Choice two will include the option of paying a fee to have one's healthcare delivered in real time from their home, office or other location having internet access and appropriate monitoring devices by a provider of their choice and options for a "team" approach to their care.

My involvement in telemedicine began in 1993 when I, along with a dedicated team of medical staff, administrators and technicians saw our first patients from a distance in real time. This system involved healthcare for inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and shortly thereafter "special needs" children who were able to visit their health team from hundreds of miles away.

Over the years to follow, I managed the technical component for telehealth at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston who rapidly became the largest telemedicine program in the world, nominated for the Computerworld Smithsonian Award and the Telehealth Hall of Fame.

Today, I serve as consultant to UTMB and others in the area of telehealth who have become interested in starting their own telehealth projects. If this is your area of interest please review the material below which may spark your interest.

Thank You,

Jake Angelo

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Computerworld Smithsonian Nomination	Article about Medicine at Antarctica	My Trip to Antarctica

For more information please email me at Jatexas@camtel.net