Medicine-Public Health Collaboration Tested
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Progress of the Cooperative Actions for Health Program (CAHP) was discussed at the November, 1999, annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). CAHP is a collaborative grant project linked to the National Medicine/Public Health Initiative, an alliance between the American Medical Association (AMA) and the APHA formed in 1994. As of Nov, 1999, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has provided grants of $10,000 to $15,000 to 19 collaborative projects in 18 states. The projects involve collaboration between state medical societies, public health associations, universities, state and local health departments, hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, other professional associations, businesses, and schools.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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Physicians put promise of telemedicine to the test: reports from rural practitioners, anesthesiologists
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Researchers in medical informatics discussed the use of telemedicine and the Internet at a 1996 conference. Telemedicine involves transmitting medical information between two different sites. A survey of 558 rural hospitals, clinics and nursing homes revealed that only 10% of the sites used telemedicine for more than one case a day. Telemedicine is very expensive and these low rates of use are a serious problem. A survey of anesthesiologists who used e-mail found that most rated the service highly but few changed the management of their patients.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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Ethics consultation quality: is evaluation feasible?
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The Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville has developed the first US guidelines for the composition, education and duties of institutional ethics committees. The composition of ethics committees has broadened to include nurses, clergy and social workers in addition to physicians. And in many cases, non-physicians can request an ethics consultation. However, there have been few guidelines in the past on the proper role of the committee and how its members should be trained.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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