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Appendix B

Acronyms

ACA Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
ACO accountable care organization
AICU advanced intensive care unit
ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
APHA American Public Health Association
ATA American Telemedicine Association
 
CMMI Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
CMS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CPT current procedural terminology
CT computed tomography
 
DHMH Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
DHSS Delaware Department of Health and Social Services
DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DoD U.S. Department of Defense
 
ECHO Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes
ED emergency department
ERS USDA’s Economic Research Service
 
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration
 
GAO U.S. Government Accountability Office
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2012. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13466.
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HHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HITECH

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health

HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration
 
ICCC Iowa Chronic Care Consortium
ICU intensive care unit
IHS Indian Health Service
IOM Institute of Medicine
IP Internet protocol
IT information technology
 
LVHN Lehigh Valley Health Network
MedPAC Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
mHealth mobile telehealth
MMTC Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
MRI magnetic resonance imaging
 
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NIH National Institutes of Health
NOBEL

National Organization of Black Elected Legislative (Women)

NRHA National Rural Health Association
 
OIG Office of Inspector General
OMB Office of Management and Budget
ONC Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
ORHP HRSA’s Office of Rural Health Policy
 
PACS picture archiving and communication system
PCMH patient-centered medical home
 
RCT randomized controlled trial
RHCPP Rural Health Care Pilot Program
RUCA rural-urban commuting area
 
S&F store and forward
STARPAHC

Space Technology Applied to Rural Papago Advanced Health Care

 
tPA tissue plasminogen activator
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2012. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13466.
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USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
 
VA U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
VISN Veterans Integrated Service Network
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In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers.

Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others.

The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.

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