A Medicaid eHealth program: an analysis of benefits to users and nonusers.

Objective: To describe parental use of an Internet-based educational and emotional support system, in a regional NICU program.

Methods: Baby CareLink was installed in NICUs in 4 Denver area hospitals in 2003. Parents were offered access from hospital terminals and from any other Internet access point.

Collaborative Approaches to e-Health: Valuable for Users and Non-users.

Objective: To describe parental use of an Internet-based educational and emotional support system, in a regional NICU program.

Methods: Baby CareLink was installed in NICUs in 4 Denver area hospitals in 2003. Parents were offered access from hospital terminals and from any other Internet access point.

Baby CareLink: using the internet and telemedicine to improve care for high-risk infants.

Objective: To evaluate an Internet-based telemedicine program designed to reduce the costs of care, to provide enhanced medical, informational, and emotional support to families of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants during and after their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) stay.

Background: Baby CareLink is a multifaceted telemedicine program that incorporates videoconferencing and World Wide Web (WWW) technologies to enhance interactions between families, staff, and community providers. The videoconferencing module allows virtual visits and distance learning from a family's home during an infant's hospitalization as well as virtual house calls and remote monitoring after discharge.

Baby CareLink: development and implementation of a WWW-based system for neonatal home telemedicine.

Baby CareLink is a multifaceted telemedicine application designed to provide individualized information and support to families of Very Low Birth Weight infants. We believe that this innovative use of WWW and telemedicine technologies will improve family satisfaction and clinical care. In conjunction with improvements in family involvement, discharge planning, education, and follow-up enabled by other CareLink components, this system may allow infants to transition home even earlier in their hospital stay and thereby provide a clear cost savings.