Telemedicine Videoconferencing:
Under a
grant from
the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Institute on Aging, develop a
“set-top box” to be installed in patients' homes to allow
videoconferencing using internet connections.
Description of the DocBox, set top box, and tele-health applications. [link]
Our Phase I project, Group Tele-Exercise for Improving Balance in Elders was described in the journal of the American Telemedicine Association Telemedicine and eHealth.
URL at: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2006.12.561
Our randomized controlled study Comparison of Telecommunication, Community, and Home
Based Tai Chi Exercise Programs on Compliance and Effectiveness in Elders at Risk for Falls was accepted for publication in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in December of 2009, and will appear during 2010.