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The Health Telematics Unit was a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, educators, learners, students, and partners who fostered and encouraged innovative quality research, evaluation, consultation, teaching, and service in the area of telehealth. This was the first program of its kind in Canada to combine a research program, using the latest advances in telehealth research and evaluation, with a training program.

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    Activity Metrics
    (2017-10-16) Topps, David
    Activity metrics, based on the Experience API (xAPI) allow you to track what your learners really do, not what their teachers say they do.
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    DynIA: Dynamically Informed Allegories
    (2015-03-05) Topps, David; Taenzer, Paul; Armson, Heather; Carr, Eloise
    An important strategy for improving population health is to use what we learn from medical research in our patient care. One approach to this is using the highest quality medical research to make recommendations and guide healthcare providers in deciding how to diagnose and treat their patients. These recommendations form the basis of healthcare tools that are called clinical practice guidelines. Theme four focused on strategies for increasing the uptake of clinical practice guidelines on low back pain and headache into community-based care. Theme four researchers collaborated with guideline developers in Alberta at the Institute of Health Economics and an organization called Towards Optimize Practice (TOP) that is sponsored by the Alberta Medical Association and the Alberta Ministry of Health (Alberta Health and Wellness). The research team first looked at what is already been known about uptake of guideline recommendations for chronic pain. This process involved going back to original research from around the world. Research librarians and scientists found 19 scientific papers that are relevant. Taken together, these studies indicated that the best approach to improving uptake of chronic pain guidelines into community care is to present them to care providers in special interactive educational settings where they are able to discuss the recommendations approaches with the educators. Theme four then went on to test this approach in the study of using an interactive educational workshop focused on the low back pain guideline. The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. The workshop presenters were an expert team of physicians, physiotherapists, nurses and psychologists that traveled to the offices of the community healthcare providers. This study showed that the providers’ knowledge of low back pain increased after the workshop. When the medical records were examined, the researchers were unable to detect changes in how care was provided. This was a small study involving 24 providers. The researchers concluded that a larger study may confirm the increase in provider knowledge and detect changes in care. An important advance in healthcare is the use of computerized medical records. Computerization also provides an opportunity for healthcare providers to access relevant health information during their time with the patient. Theme four researchers collaborated with the Department of Family Medicine that McMaster University to develop a tool to help community caregivers use the recommendations from clinical practice guidelines while they are in the office with patients. This tool called the McMaster Pain Assistant has undergone successful usability testing and is now being tested in the community to see if using the tool leads to increases in knowledge and decisions that reflect the guideline. Rural physicians face important challenges in accessing medical education. In the past they would have to leave their practices and travel to a distant site to learn. Theme four researchers collaborated with the Department of Continuing Medical Education at the University of Calgary to explore a distance learning approach using Internet-based webinars and “virtual patients” that are designed to teach about the guidelines and how it might affect their care. This preliminary study demonstrated that rural physicians appreciated being able to access high quality medical education where they can interact with experts without having to travel. They found the sessions and the virtual patients highly engaging and realistic. Only small changes were shown in management of the virtual patients through the case series. Detailed analysis of practice patterns showed participants to be very conformant with clinical practice guideline recommendations.
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    Digital Professionalism
    (2013-09-26) Topps, David; Powelson, Susan
    Exploring some of the issues around being a professional in today's digital world.
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    Repurposing Virtual Patients for Scenario Based Learning
    (2013-09-26) Topps, David; Sharma, Nishan; Lee, Sonya; Aboulhoda, Alaa
    How to use existing virtual patient cases to expand into scenario based learning activities.
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    Virtual Patients
    (2011-11-05T19:19:37Z) Topps, David; Sylvester, Michael; Lee, Sonya
    The session will be a hands-on workshop giving each participant access to their own live Open Labyrinth account. Participants will familiarize themselves with the program by following step-by-step instructions to build their first basic ‘case’. By the end of the session, participants will know: 1. the advantages and limitations of the Open Labyrinth case-making software 2. how to create their first Open Labyrinth case 3. next steps in working with Open Labyrinth elements in order to complete an effective case
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    Performance Review Branch: CIDA Evaluation Guide, 2004
    (Canadian International Development Agency, 2004) Jones, Robert C.; Stanley, Chris
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    East York Telehomecare Project
    (CANARIE Inc., 2004-11) Atack, Lynda; Duff, Diane
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    Patients' and Nurses' Experiences with Telehomecare: Results of a Research Study
    (Canadian Society of Telehealth, 2005-09) Atack, Lynda; Duff, Diane
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    Canada's Health Care Providers
    (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2002-01) Canadian Institute for Health Information
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    Social Capital as a Public Policy Tool: Project Report
    (Government of Canada, Policy Research Initiative, 2005-09) Government of Canada; Policy Research Initiative
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    The Canadian Information Highway: Building Canada's Information and Communications Infrastructure (Progress Report of the Information Highway Advisory Council)
    (Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1994-04) Industry Canada; Information Highway Advisory Council
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    Telemedicine/eHealth: The Bulgarian Experience
    (2004) Jordanova, Malina
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    E-Psychology: Between Charity and Business
    (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2005) Jordanova, M.M.
    The convergence of electronic equipment and telecommunication facilities for exchange of audio, video, and/or text therapeutic communications has been termed epsychology. It is used when face-to-face contact with licensed psychologist is impossible. This paper presents е-psychology consultations and their pros and cons as foreseen in an ongoing е-health project, aiming to employ remote networking technology to enable direct communication between experts and patients for virtual consultations, supervisions, psychological evaluations and continuous monitoring. Thus the projects will offer high quality psychological service via Internet.
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    Sleep in Microgravity
    (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2005-06) Stoilova, I.M.; Jordanova, M.M.
    The aim of this paper is to compare data from longitudinal study of psycho-physiological and psychological characteristics of cosmonauts’ sleep during pre-starts periods, space flights and both immediately after space flights as well as within time delay.
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    Global Vision on Telemedicine/eHealth
    (Telemedicine Association Zagreb, 2005) Lievens, F.; Jordanova, M.
    Nowadays, after almost four decades of application developments using modern information and communication technology systems (ICT) in healthcare, it appears that a vast majority of the actors are still struggling to grasp the broad picture in which their field of activity performs. Quite often, the global view of what's going on in telemedicine/eHealth is missing.
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    Cyber-psychology. Psychological counseling using Internet technologies and potential clients' expectations.
    (Institute of Psychology, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005-11-24) Vasileva, L.B.; Jordanova, M.M.; Rasheva, M.R.
    assistance. In Bulgaria there is a certain interest in seeking such information among people using Internet (surfing). The problem is that it is difficult to find adequate information given from experts on psychological consultation. The aim of the paper is to reveal potential clients’ expectations who are looking for psychological help and also the real possibilities and limitations in working with clients in virtual space: e-mail, video-conference, network discourses.
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    User-Friendly Environment for Tele-cardiology in Rural Area
    (Jordanova M.M. and Dachev Ts. P. 2005. User-Friendly Environment for Tele-cardiology in Rural Area. Sofia, Bulgaria: Proceedings of the XI-th International Science Conference Solar-Terrestrial Influences. 209-212., 2005-11-24) Jordanova, M.M.; Dachev, Ts. P.
    The aim of this paper is to present in brief the attempts to develop a user-friendly environment for telecardiology consultations in a rural area.
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    Health Care Renewal in Canada: Accelerating Change
    (Health Council of Canada, 2005-01) Health Council of Canada
    This report covers activity across Canada launched or being planned from the 2003 Accord. Priority areas are the health of Canadians, primary health care, drugs, home care, health human resources, and infrastructure to support renewal.
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    North East Health District Annual Report to the Community
    (North East Health District, 1999-03-31) North East Health District
    The 1998/99 Annual Report to the Community highlights the activities and the accomplishments of the North-East Health District, and describes the financial status of the District for the year ended March 31st, 1999.
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    Knowledge Translation: Final Report.
    (2003) Benzies, Karen Dr.; Weiden, Ted Dr.
    This document summarizes the ideas generated during the Knowledge Translation Workshop held at the University of Calgary, June 6-8, 2002.