Category: Toolkits

Our Patient Exam Camera.pdf document contains the same materials that were presented in the webinar on December 30, 2010. Patient Exam Cameras.pdf | Download Adobe Reader  

Exam cameras have been a topic of much discussion and debate within the telehealth community.  On the one hand, clinicians have acknowledged that the well-lit photos from patient exam cameras are remarkably bright and clear.  On the other hand, the high-cost and lack of competitors in the patient exam camera market have caused some of […]

You can find information on our findings in the following sections: 2010 Patient Exam Camera Summary 2010 Patient Exam Camera PowerPoint    

The following images were captured by the TTAC in the course of evaluating each of the patient exam cameras.  The video output of each device was routed into a VCE Pro PCMCIA framegrabber, which allowed the capture of a 640×480 pixel image.  This is the same resolution image that would be transmitted via videoconference if any […]

AMD 2500 Canon VIXIA HFM31 GE Home Monitoring GlobalMedia TotalExam S-Video INSIGNIA 720P HD Panasonic DMC-ZS3 Panasonic HDC-TM700 Sony DCR-HC40 Sony DCR-TRV38 Summary Table We found it important to document the functional aspects of the patient exam cameras for a reference. The information was compiled into cuts sheets for each patient exam camera model. The […]

This document is intended to be used as a step by step guide through the Telehealth technology assessment process. While this is related to the TTAC patient exam camera toolkit assessment, parts of this can be adapted to any Telehealth technology assessment. This document takes the reader from start to finish thorough the process that […]

Definitions & Overview Product Overview Making Exam Cameras work with VTC Making Exam Cameras work with Store & Forward Image Comparisons Usability Review   Definitions & Overview When considering patient exam cameras as a Telehealth technology, it is important for us to define some of the terminology that we are utilizing when referring to various […]

The “Assessment Process” section of the patient exam camera toolkit looks at key information driving parts of our assessment decisions and process.  We include an overview of our process, a description of how to perform functional and quality analysis of digital cameras,  product information that we have compiled on the various patient exam camera models […]

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When you get to the point of deploying equipment to your users and program, you will most likely have already selected the technology that you are going to be deploying and supporting. However, with any thorough technology assessment you should always have the deployment and support process in the back of your mind helping guide […]