>CYBER-BASED EDUCATION AND DISTANT LEARNING

UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF TELEMEDICINE

You've heard about Telemedicine theory...
You need to develop a foundation of technical knowledge about telemedicine...
You want hands-on experience before you buy...Buy how?

All this can be achieved when you join us in continuing our mission to provide quality Communications Technology Solutions to the healthcare industry.

The telemedicine course at AMTI will provide you with quality information that will increase your telemedicine knowledge base in order to make intelligent decisions on how this fledgling modality will impact healthcare delivery.  This course has been designed for doctors, nurses, residents, hospital administrators, hospital technical personnel and any individual who desires to rapidly assimilate a telemedicine knowledge base in order to make intelligent decisions on how this fledgling modality will impact healthcare delivery.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

- Establish a knowledge base of telemedicine technology
- Learn how to read an equipment "spec" list
- Develop insight into federal and state telemedicine goals and initiatives
- Gain exposure to hands-on operation of telemedicine equipment
- Target funding opportunities
- Establish a knowledge of desktop videoconferencing
- Use the internet for distant learning
- Identify proper telemedicine equipment for a specific telemedicine application

LABORATORY PRACTICUM SUBJECTS
- High Bandwidth and Desktop Applications
- Mobile and Low Bandwidth Applications
- Computer-based Training
- Internet Development

AGENDA
Day One
8:00-8:30 Registration and Welcome
8:30-9:00 An Overview of Teleradiology
9:00-9:30 History of Telemedicine
9:30-10:00 Why Telemedicine Offers Health Care Delivery Solutions for the New Millennium
10:00-10:30 How your Telephone works and Basic Communications
10:30-11:15 Technical Basis of Telemedicine I
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Satellite Communications and their Impact on Telemedicine
12:00-12:30 Technical Basis of Telemedicine II
12:30-1:00 Future Bandwidth Solutions
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Utilization of the Internet by the Health Care Industry
2:30-3:00 Low Bandwidth Telemedicine Applications
3:00-3:30 High Bandwidth Telemedicine Applications
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:30 Extreme Telemedicine Applications
4:30-5:00 Telemedicine in the New Millennium
5:00-5:30 Question and Answer Session
 
Day Two
9:00-10:45 Session 1
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:45 Session 2
12:45-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:30 Session 3
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Session 4
 
Participants will be put into three groups and each group will rotate through stations #1-4
Satellite and Advanced Communications Solutions
Demonstration of all mobile satellite communication technologies as well as hand held communications and wireless video technology.  Question and Answer session.
Low Bandwidth Telemedicine Technology
Featuring Operation House Call digital photography and the Distance Care Unit.
High Bandwidth Hardware
Detailed explanation of step-by-step system operation with a laboratory practical involving connection sequences.
Tactical Information Deployment Strategies
Production and Delivery Demonstration on an advanced PowerPoint presentation, video editing and 3-D Movie Maker.

 


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