A survey and review of telemedicine license portability.

Background: One of the major barriers to the practice of telemedicine is the state-to-state inconsistency and variability of requirements for physicians to obtain a medical license.

Materials And Methods: Invitations were extended to 61 individuals, representing 21 companies and healthcare systems. The participants had to meet strict inclusion criteria.

Critical care telemedicine: evolution and state of the art.

Objectives: To review the growth and current penetration of ICU telemedicine programs, association with outcomes, studies of their impact on medical education, associations with medicolegal risks, identify program revenue sources and costs, regulatory aspects, and the ICU telemedicine research agenda.

Data Sources: Review of the published medical literature, governmental documents, and opinions of experts from the Society of Critical Care Medicine ICU Telemedicine Committee.

Data Synthesis: Formal ICU telemedicine programs now support 11% of nonfederal hospital critically ill adult patients.

Barriers to telemedicine: survey of current users in acute care units.

Context: The present study of current telemedicine users is a unique attempt to understand the barriers and motivational factors related to the utilization of telemedicine.

Objective: A survey of emergency and critical care remote presence telemedicine users was conducted to determine the factors that motivate and the barriers that impede the acceptance and maintenance of a robotic telemedicine (RTM) program.

Setting: The majority of the survey users were in the Emergency Department or in the Intensive Care Unit.