Context: The challenge of providing meaningful health care services to veterans living in rural communities is a major public health concern that involves redefining the traditional facility-based model of care delivery employed in urban areas. Purpose: This paper describes the steps of a demonstration project, the Elko Telehealth Outreach Clinic.…

A summary of the first 18 months of operation of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States' Educational Technology Demonstration (renamed Satellite Technology Demonstration after May 1973) details the history of the demonstration and explains the rationale for the demonstration's evaluation planning and historical analysis. The report concludes with…

A second bimonthly report describes progress made on six tasks enumerated in earlier reports and specifically points out three new issues raised by the demonstration: the question of the use of telecommunication for other than educational purposes, the discrepancy between the project's concept and reality, and the usefulness of a project for…

A fourth quarterly report completes one year of the Educational Policy Research Center's (EPRC) analysis and assessment of the Education Satellite Communication demonstration. Activities and accomplishments during the period April 11, 1975-July 10, 1975 are listed and described. The report also includes cost data from the Appalachian Educational…

Aimed at decision makers who will choose whether and how to implement telecommunications efforts in the human services, this final evaluation report describes an intensive demonstration effort, which was conducted by the Alternate Media Center of New York University from July 1979 to September 1980 to show how various telecommunications media,…

This report describes and evaluates the first year of a demonstration project to develop an on-demand telecommunications network linking four remote hospitals in southwestern Ohio to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The Telecommunications Information Network (TIN) is designed to allow health care professionals at those hospitals to…

A demonstration project explored the potential of satellite video consulation to improve the quality of rural health care in Alaska. Satellite ground stations permitting both transmission and reception of black and white television were installed at clinics in Fairbanks, Fort Yukon, Galena, and Tanana. Receive-only television capability was…

A demonstration project was undertaken to determine whether 1978 telefacsimile technology could address public library needs in a cost-effective manner. The TALINET project involved local public library staff in five developing communities in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming, as well as research/resource information staff at…

Current developments in an experiment on Computer Communications via the ATS-1 geosynchronous satellite are described. Initiated by the Spacecraft Data Systems Branch of the Ames Research Center, NASA, this experiment is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing satellite communication links to provide computer-computer and…

A bimonthly report describes a recent work to determine the use of satellite educational television in remote and isolated rural communities, especially those inhabited by native Alaskans. It is believed that educational satellite communication has its greatest potential in Alaska because of these conditions. The report describes the scope of the…

The appendices which accompanied the research study "The Televote System for Civic Communication: First Demonstration and Evaluation" are presented. The first appendix covers televote topics such as: Spanish, vocational courses, vandalism and burglary, the San Jose Unified School District goals for students, elementary school…

The activities described in this report were part of a demonstration project designed to test the feasibility of using electronic messages to support information and resources exchange among professionals who serve the developmentally disabled (DD). The one year demonstration included the participation of 26 university based centers across the…

A second quarterly report describes activities of the Syracuse Educational Policy Research Center's two-year analysis of educational satellites and telecommunications. Visits to Rocky Mountain, Appalachian and Alaskan sites are described. Activities of other nations are reviewed and summarized. Preliminary staff work and analysis for the final…

To explore the economic feasibility of a rural broadband telecommunications system supported by revenues from subscriber, commercial and public service users, a potential demonstration cable system was designed and evaluated for Poinsett County, Arkansas. Analyses of projected capital and operating costs, anaticipated revenues, prospective public…

This report summarizes the third phase of the Telecommunications Information Network (TIN), which provides a telecommunications link between four remote southwest Ohio hospitals and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, thereby reducing the isolation of healthcare providers at the remote hospitals. A description of the system explains the…