 The Telemedicine and
E-health Information Service (TEIS)
Doctors and other health professionals in the UK using IT to deliver
better health services have received a major boost with the launch of a new
service about telemedicine and ehealth run by the University of Portsmouth.
The Telemedicine and E-health Information Service (TEIS, pronounced to
rhyme with 'ice') is a database of activities, companies and other
information about the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)
to deliver health care to patients at a distance.
Through it, clinicians and administrators who are thinking of setting up
their own telemedicine or ehealth project can find out about other
practitioners who may have already done similar things. Hopefully, the
database will mean that fewer NHS resources are duplicated unnecessarily.
The database is accessible on the Internet at either
www.teis.port.ac.uk
 or
www.teis.nhs.uk
TEIS covers applications that use information and communication technology:
- to deliver health and/or social care in new ways;
- on a person to person basis; and
- where those people are physically apart.
The database holds over 2000 entries and is fully searchable. It is updated
regularly by a team who monitor the professional press and attend
telemedicine events.
The service is provided by the Healthcare Computing Group at the
University of Portsmouth and is sponsored by the NHS Information Authority.
Dr Jim Briggs, head of the Healthcare Computing Group and Director of
TEIS, said: "We at the University are pleased to have been asked by the NHS
to combine our expertise in both the web and health services research to
provide this high-tech resource. We anticipate that the UK healthcare
community will benefit enormously by it."
More information
For further details contact Dr Jim Briggs at the University of
Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3AE.
Telephone +44 (0)239 284 6438, fax +44 (0)23 9284 6402, email
jim.briggs@port.ac.uk
UK Telemedicine and E-health Information Service
Visit the site at
www.teis.nhs.uk
Postal address:
c/o Healthcare Computing Group,
Department of Information Systems, University of Portsmouth
Burnaby Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 3AE, UK
Tel: +44 (23) 9284 6438 (6445 for general enquiries)
Email: teis@port.ac.uk
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