Adoption of Communication Technologies in a Texas Health Setting

Advances in communication technologies generate new opportunities for collaboration. With each technological innovation, we acquire a greater capacity to share information, resources, data, and reinforce best practices. Certain technologies, such as e-mail, the Web, video, and teleconferencing may reduce the need for travel and expensive long distance bills. This is an important development for groups of people working together across distances. The Texas Statewide Coordinated Statement of Need (TX SCSN) project, funded by the Texas Department of Health (TDH) Bureau of HIV and STD, is a multi-year project assessing the need and utilization of services for people living with HIV or AIDS throughout the state. In an effort to ensure effective communications with a dispersed volunteer group, the project used several communication technologies. The purpose of this paper is to describe communication technologies employed by the TX SCSN. We describe each communication technology, the underly...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: ETS
• Authors: L. Suzanne Suggs, William B. Cissell, Chris McIntyre, Michelle Ward
• Keywords: Communication, Communication Technologies, ETS 2002, Hardware, TX SCSN