Telehealth : A Multidisciplinary Approach

Clinics Collections

1st Edition - February 5, 2021
Editor: Joel J. Heidelbaugh
Language: English
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Clinics Collections: Depression draws from Elsevier’s robust Clinics Review Articles database to provide multidisciplinary teams, including psychiatrists, general practitioners, and pediatricians, with practical clinical advice and insights on how telehealth can be implemented in individual specialties.

Clinics Collections: Telehealth
guides readers on how to apply current best practices in the implementation of telehealth to everyday practice to help overcome patient challenges and complications, keep up with new and advanced treatment methods, and improve patient outcomes.

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Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Design, Adoption, Implementation, Scalability, and Sustainability of Telehealth Programs
Key points
Introduction
Design and adoption
Outcomes of telehealth: effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and participant bias
Training, scalability, sustainability, and integration
Summary
Impact of Telehealth on Health Economics
Key points
What value can telehealth provide
Assessing the economic impact of telehealth
Types of economic evaluation
Value of telehealth to the health care system
Value of telehealth in medical education
Regulatory, Legal, and Ethical Considerations of Telemedicine
Key points
Introduction
A case study: Hageseth v. superior court
Informed consent
Licensing
Clinical privileges and credentials
Internet prescribing
Conflicts of interest
Malpractice Insurance
Protected health information
Ethics
Summary
The Role of Text Messaging and Telehealth Messaging Apps
Key points
Introduction
Text messaging in telehealth
Applications in adult care
Applications in pediatric care
Use of cross-platform messaging applications
Legal implications
Personalized Implementation of Video Telehealth
Key points
Introduction
Video telehealth to home in the VA: historical overview
Personalized implementation of video telehealth
Outcome evaluation of Personalized Implementation for Video Telehealth
Recommendations for implementing a video telehealth to home program
Summary
The Impact of Telehealth on the Organization of the Health System and Integrated Care
Key points
Introduction
Optimal organization of the health system to promote integrated care in sleep medicine
Role of telehealth in the optimal organization of health systems
Obstructive sleep apnea
Diagnosis
Treatment initiation
Follow-up
Other sleep disorders
Consumer health technology
Nonphysician sleep providers
Discussion and summary
The Opportunities for Telehealth in Pediatric Practice and Public Health
Key points
Introduction
Uses of telehealth
Summary
Child Health and Telehealth in Global, Underresourced Settings
Key points
Introduction
Pediatric telehealth in global settings: an overview
Integrating telehealth in the community context of resource-constrained countries
Current challenges of telemedicine in a global setting
Summary
Reducing Infant Mortality Using Telemedicine and Implementation Science
Key points
Introduction
Benefits of perinatal regionalization
Barriers to optimal regionalization
Telemedicine has been used successfully to facilitate cooperation among rural providers
Use of telemedicine in obstetrics
Technical requirements for telemedicine use in perinatal regionalization
Telemedicine was used extensively to implement regionalization of neonatal intensive care in Arkansas
How can implementation science, using telemedicine, be used in other states?
Summary
Implementing Telehealth in Pediatric Asthma
Key points
Problem to be solved by telemedicine
Can telemedicine be used to improve asthma care?
Difficulties and barriers to implementation of telemedicine
Potential for cost savings
Summary
Implementing Telehealth in Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Key points
Telehealth Opportunities and Challenges for Managing Pediatric Obesity
Key points
Introduction
Telehealth in practice of pediatric obesity
Future of telehealth in pediatric obesity
Summary
Clinical Applications of Telemedicine in Gynecology and Women’s Health
Key points
Introduction
Well woman’s visit and preventive care
Preconception counseling
Family planning
Infertility workup
Teleradiology: ultrasound
Cervical cancer screening and colposcopy
Medical abortion
Mental illnesses in gynecology
Preoperative counseling, postoperative care, and telesurgery
Summary
Telehealth in Maternity Care
Key points
Introduction
Telemedicine in maternal care
Challenges in implementation of telehealth
Summary
Child and Adolescent Telepsychiatry Education and Training
Key points
Introduction
Review of the literature on telepsychiatry education and training
Telehealth for education, consultation, and mentoring in child psychiatry
Special considerations for telepsychiatry with children and adolescents
Other technologies
Pediatric telepsychiatry education and training resources
Future directions
Recommendations for Using Clinical Video Telehealth with Patients at High Risk for Suicide
Key points
Research evidence for the use of clinical video telehealth with high-risk patients
Professional guidelines regarding the use of clinical video telehealth
Laws affecting provision of clinical video telehealth to high-risk individuals
Adapting best-practice guidelines for working with high-risk patients to clinical video telehealth delivery
Summary and future directions
Clinician-Delivered Teletherapy for Eating Disorders
Key points
Introduction
Evidence for teletherapy
Teletherapy considerations for eating disorder care
Summary and future directions
Intensive Care Unit Telemedicine: Innovations and Limitations
Key points
Introduction
Recent innovations in intensive care unit telemedicine
Opportunities for intensive care unit telemedicine innovation
Limitations
Summary
Quality Improvement and Telemedicine Intensive Care Unit: A Perfect Match
Key points
Introduction
Medical errors in the intensive care unit and increasing safety in tele-intensive care using quality improvement tools
Quality improvement methodology examples: plan–do–study–act cycles, define–measure–analyze–improve–control, and lean
Tele-intensive care and its role in enhancing intensive care unit quality of care
Continuous quality improvement by tele-intensive care
Leveraging current and future knowledge to enhance intensive care unit metrics by tele-intensive care
Resource use and project prioritization
Diffusion of best practices across all intensive care units
Impact of quality improvement by tele-intensive care on interhospital transfers
Continuous quality improvement use in tele-intensive care
Handoff communication
Summary
Telemedicine and the Management of Insomnia
Key points
Introduction
Definitions
Telemedicine for insomnia
Conclusion and next steps
Telehealth, Telemedicine, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Key points
Definitions: telehealth, telemedicine, and uncomplicated obstructive sleep apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea telehealth: implementation of standardized e-care within obstructive sleep apnea best-practice guidelines and American Academy of Sleep Medicine quality measures
Obstructive sleep apnea evaluation and telehealth
Obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis and teleheath
Obstructive sleep apnea treatments and telehealth
Continuous positive airway pressure telemanagement
Obstructive sleep apnea telemanagement of non–continuous positive airway pressure treatments
Discussion
Telehealth Use to Promote Quality Outcomes and Reduce Costs in Stroke Care
Key points
Introduction
Stroke and use of telestroke
Quality outcomes of telestroke
Barriers to use of telestroke
Reducing costs with telestroke
Nurses role in telestroke
Summary
Telemedicine in Rehabilitation
Key points
Introduction
Content
Summary
Safety of Surgical Telehealth in the Outpatient and Inpatient Setting
Key points
Introduction
Evaluation of telehealth for patient safety
Telehealth in the outpatient setting
Patient safety opportunities in the outpatient setting
Future directions in outpatient telehealth
Tele-intensive care units
Patient safety opportunities in tele-intensive care units
Future directions in tele-intensive care units
Summary
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