title: Development of a Tele ENT Program to Support Distant Military Treatment Facilities for the European Regional Medical Command.
abstract: Two hundred forty-five thousand patients seek care at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. They battle lengthy commutes, costly procedures, and limited specialty care in order to consult their physicians. Implementing telemedical procedures at hospitals such at LRMC is believed to reduce travel time, decrease costs, and increase specialization. Healthcare providers who were trained in Tele ENT procedures unanimously accepted the technology as an alternative way to care for patients. Expansion of telemedical procedures in hospitals is deemed to reduce health care costs and to be accepted by providers.
authors.affiliation: US Army Medical Corps, Lansudstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, DE.
authors.forename: Jeffery
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Faulkner
authors.affiliation: US Army Medical Corps, Lansudstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, DE.
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: US Army Medical Corps, Lansudstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, DE.
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nessen
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boedeker
authors.affiliation: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Boedeker
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D020375:Education, Distance; D005060:Europe; D006772:Hospitals, Military; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine; D014481:United States