OTHER RESOURCES

With the above proviso, the Keston Group has found the following sites that can aid in your search for more information in the Healthcare field.

• ORAU - Oak Ridge Associated Universities - Radiation Dosimetry

 
• Sample nuclear medicine protocols from London Health Sciences Centre, University Campus, London, Ontario, Canada are no longer available at this web site.

  A comprehensive set of procedure guidelines is available from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, see - SNM.org - "Practice Management"
  The European Association of Nuclear Medicine also hosts a set of procedure guidelines - EANM.org - "Publications"


 
• Other useful sources of similar information are the Practice Guidelines developed by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the Standards of Practice developed by the American College of Radiology and posted on their respective web sites.

 
• In March, 2000 The Keston Group, in cooperation with Infotelmed Communications Inc , was commissioned by Industry Canada to conduct a survey of the telehealth industry in Canada. That report was submitted to Industry Canada at the end of March, 2000. The Executive Summary and a segment of the report enumerating the many telehealth networks across Canada are reproduced here with kind permission of Industry Canada's Life Sciences Branch. The full report (without the Appendices which contain company confidential information) was released by Industry Canada in November, 2000. These reports require Acrobat Reader:
  and may take a number of seconds to download.

 
• Bob Zimmerman , an Associate of The Keston Group, has posted a report from the 2001 RSNA held in Chicago at the end of November. It can be found on the Havard web site - http://www.med.harvard.edu/JPNM/physics/NotesfromRSNA2001.html

 

SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

• Slide presentation on Telehealth in Alberta focussing on issues surrounding interoperability and the role of the Alberta Research Council delivered at a meeting of the Western Children's Cardiac Health Network in Vancouver, BC on June 26th, 2000. This presentation requires Acrobat Reader:
  and may take a number of seconds to download.

 
• Slide presentation on Telehealth in Canada as of May, 2000 delivered at the University of Calgary's Health Telematics Unit Telehealth Summer Institute on 3rd August, 2000 . This presentation requires Acrobat Reader:
  and may take a number of seconds to download.

 
• Slide presentation on Telehealth in Alberta with particular reference to lessons learned and interoperability issues. This presentation was delivered at the Think Tank on Telemedicine in Ontario held in Toronto on 6, 7 and 8 September, 2000 . This presentation requires Acrobat Reader:
  and may take a number of seconds to download.

 
• Slide presentation entitled "A Province-wide Telehealth Program in Alberta, Canada". This presentation was delivered at the joint meetings of the International Society for Telemedicine and the Canadian Society of Telehealth held in Montreal on October 2nd, 2000. This presentation requires Acrobat Reader:
  and may take a number of seconds to download.

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