Office for Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, Maryland 20857, USA.
Telemed J E Health. 2010 Jan-Feb;16(1):96-102. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2009.0182.
In June 2009, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), convened a conference of experts to discuss future directions for research in addressing healthcare disparities through the use of telehealth technologies. As part of this conference, a panel was convened to review the status of current efforts to assess, implement, and evaluate telehealth technologies, and to recommend future directions for research. The panel members provided a series of practical recommendations to those who are contemplating establishing a telehealth service, as well as recommendations to the NIH on future funding for telehealth research. The recommendations to the NIH focused on three broad areas of concern: (1) technology assessment, (2) evaluation, and (3) technical assistance, education, and dissemination. The panel members emphasized the need for NIH to support research in areas that have been seriously underfunded in the past, including but not limited to primary care research, multisite collaborative telehealth studies, nonphysician telehealth services, and methodological development to develop a "gold standard" for telehealth studies.
2009 年 6 月，美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）下属的国家研究资源中心（NCRR）召集了一次专家会议，讨论通过使用远程医疗技术解决医疗保健差异问题的未来研究方向。作为本次会议的一部分，成立了一个小组来审查当前评估、实施和评估远程医疗技术的工作现状，并为未来的研究推荐方向。小组成员向那些正在考虑建立远程医疗服务的人提供了一系列实用建议，并向 NIH 提出了未来远程医疗研究的资金建议。向 NIH 提出的建议主要集中在三个关注领域：（1）技术评估；（2）评估；（3）技术援助、教育和传播。小组成员强调 NIH 有必要支持过去严重资金不足的领域的研究，包括但不限于初级保健研究、多地点合作远程医疗研究、非医师远程医疗服务以及开发远程医疗研究“金标准”的方法学发展。
