Established in 1993, the Texas Children’s Center for TeleHealth was the first pediatric-based telemedicine program to go live. The Center for TeleHealth continues to facilitate timely diagnoses and treatments, link researchers and patient populations at a variety of sites throughout the world and promote networking among physicians, health care providers and institutions.
The Center for TeleHealth also provides clinical, educational and research services to remote areas within the United States and internationally. This is made possible through state-of-the-art approaches employing multimedia, information and telecommunication technologies available within the center.
Additionally, the center provides distance educational services to physicians, nurses, allied health care providers, students, and to patients and their parents using video conferencing and the Internet to deliver real-time instruction to interactive participants.
Community Impact 2011
In 2011, the Center for TeleHealth managed over 40 initiatives focused on enhancing medical and clinical education and fostering collaboration and dialogue between institutions, practicing physicians, caregivers and families:
- Managed the 2010-2011 Continuing Professional Education program, an Internet-based series of highly relevant health care topics directed to health care providers dealing with school-aged children and their families, including: Caring for Children with Diabetes, Tracheostomy Care, and Child Abuse Awareness and Reporting–SCAN Program.
- Throughout 2011, the Center for TeleHealth staff hosted a series of multi-point distance education conferences with participants at Texas Children’s Hospital, Grand Valley State University (Michigan) and the University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas and Houston. The Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) program is a specialized training program that is housed within the Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine Section of Baylor College of Medicine, based at Texas Children’s Hospital.
- Supporting educational and research collaboration between Texas Children’s and other leading institutions, including Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of California-San Francisco, Kansas University Medical Center, The American College of Cardiology and the University of Arkansas Health Science Center.
