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Cantor A, Nelson HD, Pappas M, Atchison C, Hatch B, Huguet N, Flynn B,McDonagh M . 2022. Effectiveness of telehealth for women's preventive services . Rockville, MD: U.S. Agency for Healhcare Research and Quality, 156 pp. (Comparative Effectiveness Review number 256 )

Annotation: This review evaluates the effectiveness, use, and implementation of telehealth for women’s preventive services for reproductive healthcare and interpersonal violence (IPV). It examines patient preferences and engagement in telehealth and explores how this form of health care delivery affects health outcomes, particularly for those who are geographically isolated or in underserved settings or populations. The use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighted.

Contact: U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: (301) 427-1364 Web Site: http://www.ahrq.gov Available from the website.

Keywords: Health care systems, Health care delivery, Health screening, Prevention services, Telecommunications, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Women', s health

Amanda Briggs A, Spaulding S, Spievack N, Islam A, Anderson T. 2021. Serving youth remotely: Strategies for practitioners. Washington, DC: Urban Institute , 40 pp.

Annotation: This resource guide describes how organizations are using remote services in creative and promising ways to deliver education, training, employment, and mental health services to all young people — regardless of their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. The guide presents six core strategies and identifies key issues, challenges, promising practices and tips for each approach. The strategies are: (1) creating the foundation for success by meeting basic needs first; (2) strengthening organizational and staff capacity to meet new demands; (3) providing services that support mental and emotional health; (4) building community; (5) ensuring instruction is engaging; and (6) adapting experiential and work-based learning to the virtual environment.

Contact: Annie E. Casey Foundation, 701 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, Telephone: (410) 547-6600 Fax: (410) 547-6624 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aecf.org

Keywords: Adolescent Mental health, Adolescent health, Distance learning, Initiatives, Model programs, Technology, Telecommunications, Telemedicine, Youth services

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs . 2020 . Equity in telehealth policy: A framework to evaluate how policy can support the use of telehealth to improve health equity in MCH public health systems . Washington, DC: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs , 10 pp.

Annotation: This issue brief provides a definition of equity in telehealth, describes four dimensions of equity in telehealth policy, and provides case study examples of how these dimensions can be applied when assessing the equity impacts of a given maternal and child health (MCH) telehealth policy solution.

Contact: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, 1825 K Street, N.W., Suite 250, Washington, DC 20006-1202, Telephone: (202) 775-0436 Fax: (202) 478-5120 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.amchp.org

Keywords: Health care delivery, Health equity, MCH services, Policy, Public health, Telecommunications, Telehealth, Telemedicine

Ward MM, Fox K, Merchant K, Burgess A, Ullrich F, Pearson K, Shaler G, Shea C, North S, Mena C. 2020. Process of identifying measures and data elements for the HRSA School-Based Telehealth Network Grant Program. Iowa City, IA: Rural Telehealth Research Center, 7 pp.

Annotation: This policy brief defines a set of measures for evaluating grants awarded under the School-Based Telehealth Network Grant Program, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. Grants were targeted to rural, frontier, and underserved communities providing telehealth services for school children, with a particular focus on five clinical areas: asthma, behavioral health, diabetes, health weight, and oral health. The goal of the project was to identify a common set of measures that could be collected from each of the grantees for a cross-grantee assessment of school-based telehealth services, utilization, process, and outcomes.

Contact: Rural Telehealth Research Center, N200 CPHB, 145 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, Telephone: (319) 384-3830 Web Site: https://ruraltelehealth.org/

Keywords: Access to healthcare, Health care delivery, Health care systems, Rural health, Telecommunications, Telehealth, Telemedicine

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs . 2020. Telehealth capacity of maternal & child health public health systems in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: environmental scan . Washington, DC: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs , 15 pp.

Annotation: This environmental scan summarizes themes that emerged during interviews with key informants on the implementation of telehealth solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief describes several themes that emerged across multiple programs: (1) There is significant variance in the level of telehealth implementation occurring across jurisdictions; (2) Systemic and widespread connectivity issues exist for families and some programs; (3) There is a lack of evidence by which to make decisions about if and how to continue or expand telehealth to best meet families’ needs; and (4) Improved mechanisms are needed to connect available educational and training resources with the providers and staff who need them, when they need them. Contributors include representatives from Title V and children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) programs, newborn screening functions, and maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting (MIECHV) services.

Contact: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, 1825 K Street, N.W., Suite 250, Washington, DC 20006-1202, Telephone: (202) 775-0436 Fax: (202) 478-5120 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.amchp.org

Keywords: Barriers, Child health, Children with special health needs, Health care delivery, Interviews, Maternal health, Telecommunications, Telemedicine, Youth

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. 2017. Telehealth resource guide. Arlington, VA: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, 36 pp.

Annotation: This guide discusses telehealth and telemedicine, how state departments are working with telehealth, and state examples and mini-case studies. Additional resources and a list of national and regional telehealth resource centers are included.

Contact: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, 2231 Crystal Drive, Suite 450, Arlington, VA 22202, Telephone: (202) 371-9090 Fax: (571) 527-3189 Web Site: http://www.astho.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Access to health care, Health care delivery, State initiatives, Telecommunications, Telemedicine

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Brookings Institution. 2008. Children and electronic media. Princeton, NJ: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 253 pp. (The future of children; v. 18, no. 1, Spring 2008)

Annotation: This issue of "The Future of Children" features nine articles on the most common forms of electronic media in use today and their influence on the well-being of children and adolescents. Topics include how exposure to different media forms is linked with such aspects of child well-being as school achievement, cognition, engagement in extracurricula activities, social interaction with peers and family, aggression, fear and anxiety, risky behaviors, and healthy lifestyle choices. The volume is organized by children's outcomes and considers evidence separately for children vs. adolescents, boys vs. girls, and advantaged vs. disadvantaged children.

Contact: Future of Children, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 267 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, Telephone: (609) 258-5894 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://futureofchildren.princeton.edu/ Available from the website. Document Number: ISBN 978-0-9814705-0-4.

Keywords: Academic achievement, Adolescent health, Adverse effects, Child health, Cognitive development, Health behavior, Mass media, Psychosocial development, Risk assessment, Telecommunications

CityMatCH and National Association of County and City Health Officials . 2008. Internet-based HIV/STI prevention interventions for adolescents. Omaha, NE: CityMatCH; Washington, DC: National Association of City and County Health Officials, (Emerging issues in maternal and child health)

Annotation: This Webcast hosts Powerpoint and audio files from three presentations. The first examines adolescent and youth sexual activity; what types of technology youth and adolescents use, how, and why; how technology is and can be used for STD/HIV prevention. The second examines the validity of four popular public health mindsets: youth will prioritize the sites public health organizations create for them, offline strategies for STD/HIV prevention will work online, youths' risk for HIV/STD is based on their individual characteristics, and "the problem is the lack of the solution that we already have in mind." The third describes various online STD/HIV prevention programs and explores their use. Online use and techniques and their use in a clinic setting are also discussed. A question and answer session follows. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Association of County and City Health Officials, 1100 17th Street, N.W., Seventh Floor, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 783-5550 Fax: (202) 783-1583 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.naccho.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Adolescents, HIV, Internet, Multimedia, Prevention programs, STDs, Sexual behavior, Technology, Telecommunications, Youth

Algus K, Popper B, Wainstock L. 2003. Family Voices in SCHIP telemedicine report: Bridges, not boundaries—The value and use of telemedicine for children/youth with special health care needs. Boston, MA: Family Voices, 44 pp.

Annotation: This report provides findings from a survey of telemedicine providers and parents regarding the potential, the pitfalls, the realities and the hopes for telemedicine's role in providing medical care to children and youth with special health care needs. Appendices include a checklist for families to use if telemedicine is offered to them, a family satisfaction questionnaire offered as a working model for programs to use with families experiencing telemedicine visits, a list of contacts of those who responded to the questionnaire, and a list of resources. [Funded in part by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: Family Voices, P.O. Box 37188, Albuquerque, NM 87176, Telephone: (505) 872-4774 Secondary Telephone: (888) 835-5669 Fax: (505) 872-4780 Web Site: http://www.familyvoices.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Adolescents with special health care needs, Children with special health care needs, Families, Health personnel, Medical technology, Patient satisfaction, Questionnaires, Surveys, Telecommunications, Telemedicine

Johnson and Johnson Associates. 2001. Technology Opportunities Program, 1996 and 1997projects. Washington, DC: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 81 pp. (Evaluation report)

Editors of EEI Press. 2000. E-what?: A guide to the quirks of new media style and usage. Alexandria, VA: EEI Press, 116 pp.

Conte C, Anderson G, Druker D, Gattuso J, Krinsky R, Sparrow J. 1999. Society and information infrastructure: The next generation—Conference report. Washington, DC: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program, 57 pp.

Annotation: This conference report is about how society is changing in its use of information technology and how the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP) projects have been at the forefront of the changes. It highlights emerging societal and technology trends. Conference session topics included technology trends; evolving community networks; creating new locations for service delivery; networking and the transmission of sensitive information; workable mechanisms for meeting community needs; networks and accessing services from the home; moving from information access to analysis; network technologies and organizational change; and an update on TIIAP's progress.

Keywords: Community agencies, Conferences, Information networks, Low income groups, Nonprofit organizations, Telecommunications

Health Resources and Services Administration, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. 1999. Telehealth funding guide. Rockville, MD: Health Resources and Services Administration, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, 12 pp.

Eng TR, Gustafson DH, eds. and Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health. 1999. Wired for health and well being: The emergence of interactive health communication. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 177 pp.

Bartfai N, Frechtling J, Silverstein G, Snow K, Somers L. 1999. Collected case study evaluations: Issues in rural communities, issues in urban communities, issues in sustainability. Washington, DC: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 353 pp. (Case study report)

Frechtling J, Lockwood J, Silverstein G, Somers L, Tuss P. 1999. Evaluation of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program for the 1994 and 1995 grant years. Washington, DC: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, ca. 130 pp. (Evaluation report)

National Telecommunications and Information Administration. 1996. Lessons learned from the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program. Washington, DC: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 48 pp.

Ferguson T, Slack WV. 1993. Consumer health informatics: Bringing the patient into the loop. Austin, TX: Self-Care Productions, ca. 100 pp.

Annotation: This publication provides a summary of the First National Conference on Consumer Health Informatics held in July 1993. The meeting focused on progress in the study, development, and implementation of computer and telecommunications applications and interfaces designed to be used by health consumers. The book includes handouts from each of the presenters; statements from conference speakers and other experts on their visions for consumer health informatics; a list of key contacts in the field; and background materials on the topic.

Contact: MailComm Plus, 2729 Exposition Boulevard, Austin, TX 78703, Telephone: (512) 472-1296 Fax: (512) 476-3930 Available in libraries.

Keywords: Computers, Consumers, Health, Information systems, Information systems, Telecommunications

Wiltherspoon JP, Johnstone SM, Wasen CJ. 1993. Rural telehealth: Telemedicine, distance education and informatics for rural health care. Boulder, CO: Western Interstate Commission Commission for Higher Education, Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, 79 pp.

Annotation: This report discusses the application of telecommunications and information technology to the delivery of rural health care and the development of rural health care infrastructure. Additional topics include a primer on telecommunications and information technology; telehealth and user support; and regulatory, legal, and quality assurance issues. The report includes references and a glossary of telecommunications terms.

Contact: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, 3035 Center Green Drive, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80301-2204, Telephone: (303) 541-0200 Fax: (303) 541-0291 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://wiche.edu/ $8.00.

Keywords: Access to health care, Communications, Distance education, Evaluation, Health care delivery, Health care systems, Health education, Information networks, Internet, Professional training, Quality assurance, Regulations, Research, Rural health, State programs, Technology, Telecommunications, Teleconferences, Telemedicine, Videoconferences

Barber D. Building a digital library: Concepts and issues. Library Technology Reports. 32(5):573-738. September/October 1996,

Annotation: This report explains issues that need to be considered in establishing a digital library. The targeted audience is the library manager. The report breaks down the important concepts and issues, defining and describing them in detail. Specific components discussed are: text, images, geographic data services, numeric data, auxiliary services, infrastructure services, integration, staffing, computer terminals, servers, and networks. In addition, the report considers how to develop a digital library strategy and the different levels of effort needed to implement one, in a setting from a large research library to a small special library.

Contact: National Information Standards Organization, One North Charles Street, Suite 1905, Baltimore, MD 21201, Telephone: 301-654-2512 Contact Phone: (301) 567-9522 Fax: 410-685-5278 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.niso.org $50.00. Document Number: ISSN 0024-2586.

Keywords: Databases, Information dissemination, Information management, Information networks, Information services, Internet, Library services, Strategic plans, Technology, Telecommunications
   

The MCH Digital Library is one of six special collections at Geogetown University, the nation's oldest Jesuit institution of higher education. It is supported in part by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under award number U02MC31613, MCH Advanced Education Policy with an award of $700,000/year. The library is also supported through foundation and univerity funding. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.