The Use of Telemedicine Clinics for the Care of Special Needs Children. The pilot project will provide funds to open a new telemedicine clinic in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, develop a business plan for moving the project into a managed care environment, and conduct operations and outcomes research based on the experience of telemedicine clinics in Beaumont, Nacogdoches, and Edinburg. The principal investigator is Sally S. Robinson of the UTMB Department of Pediatrics. This is an Internet-based system that supports electronic remote medical consultations. It was developed with initial funding from the Texas Advanced Technology Program.
Clinical providers can assemble digital scans that support electronic remote medical consultations.
The principal investigator is John Phelps of M.D. Anderson. Internet Applications in Caregiver Consultations. Electronic patient referrals containing text, audio, video, and image files will be forwarded to a Health Science Center Web server. The U. T. Austin Graduate School of Library Science will participate in the evaluations. The principal investigator is Charles Bauer of the U. T. Health Science Center at San Antonio.