Telemedicine and Special Needs Children

Some children with special needs and their families are seeing the benefits of telemedicine – but others are still waiting for the revolution. "If it were up to the parents, this would have happened years ago." Kathleen Wenke’s frustration is showing. Facing yet another 9-hour round trip from her home in Oneonta, NY, to Brooklyn, NY, for a 15-minute appointment with her daughter’s endocrinologist, Wenke speaks longingly about how telemedicine could change things for her and her family.

Urban Kids Receive Treatment Care at School

When people talk about innovative thinking, "Yankee ingenuity" is the clichÈ that comes to mind. But, on February 19, 1998 it was "Kansas creativity" in action, as Tele-KidCare, a joint project of the Kansas City, KS, school district and the U. of Kansas Medical Center’s Telemedicine Program, saw its first patient.