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Advances in Telehealth and Primary Care
Published in Frederick J. DeMicco, Ali A. Poorani, Medical Travel Brand Management, 2023
Ali A. Poorani, Amanda Adkins, Terri Hollen, Kathryn Raborn
The global implications support the World Health Organization’s definition of telehealth (Telehealth, 2016), which is the most universal and comprehensive. In it, they clearly articulate the ways in which telehealth has the potential to improve patient access to healthcare, enhance the overall delivery of care, and the success of patient outcomes. Interestingly, it also addresses the opportunity for improved sustainability by minimizing the physical footprint of healthcare.
Medical-Legal
Published in Salvatore Volpe, Health Informatics, 2022
Telehealth is the use of IT hardware, software, and telecommunications technologies to provide communications, remote care, and public health administration. While telehealth has always been evolving, the COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated it use. The two biggest drivers of this are (1) avoiding public healthcare practices and facilities to avoid exposure and (2) the increase in healthcare providers willing to pay for telehealth visits. Fortunately, the technology and most patients’ internet bandwidths have increased over the past few years, permitting telehealth to become functional.
Telehealth Comes of Age
Published in Tom Lawry, Hacking Healthcare, 2022
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines telehealth as:The use of telecommunications and information technology to provide access to health assessment, diagnosis, intervention, consultation, supervision, and information across distance. Telehealth includes such technologies as telephones, facsimile machines, electronic mail systems, and remote patient monitoring devices, which are used to collect and transmit data for monitoring and interpretation.5
Applying the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents to Misophonia: A Case Example
Published in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2023
Niza A. Tonarely-Busto, Dominique A. Phillips, Estefany Saez-Clarke, Ashley Karlovich, Kelly Kudryk, Adam B. Lewin, Jill Ehrenreich-May
Lastly, the treatment was effectively and flexibly shifted to telehealth when needed. When transitioning to telehealth, there were certain considerations, including access to a platform that was HIPAA-compliant, maintaining privacy within the home setting, and increasing client engagement. To address these considerations, the therapist utilized Zoom for healthcare, discussed privacy needs with the client, and used opposite action language to encourage participation and engagement. Exposures were easily conducted via telehealth and allowed for greater generalization since they were within the client’s home. There are of course limitations to telehealth, including access to technology (e.g., Wi-Fi, smart phone, tablet, or laptop), privacy, and client willingness that need to be considered.
Telehealth: only a click away
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2021
Prehabilitation enables people with cancer to prepare for treatment by helping to promote healthy behaviors in order to withstand the stresses of cancer treatment, maximize resilience to its treatment and above all improve long-term health.1 The advancement of mobile technologies has given clinicians an opportunity to advance the cancer prehabilitation services we deliver. Such examples include using telehealth to expand our reach and patient access to care. Similarly utilizing remote monitoring through the medium of mobile technologies can also help improve patient engagement and adherence. Telehealth includes a broad range of technologies and services to provide patient care and health information. It is different from telemedicine which specifically refers to remote clinical services and used for example for follow-up visits, management of chronic conditions, medication management and or specialist consultations. In short both are part of the larger effort to expand access to healthcare. Innovating supportive care must include the incorporation of telehealth in order to help promote self-management and support personalized prehabilitation care plans for our patients. The integration of telehealth into cancer care has been critical in keeping the provision of our healthcare services going whilst simultaneously protecting and preventing those with already supressed immune systems from increased risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus.
Strengths-based behavioral telehealth with sexual and gender diverse clients at Center on Halsted
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2021
Ing Swenson, Trevor G. Gates, Michael P. Dentato, Brian L. Kelly
Telehealth refers to a range of remote services to support health and mental health-related matters, health information dissemination, and education via phone or an online platform (e.g., Zoom or Google Meet). Telemedicine is often defined more narrowly as real-time, live online or phone interactive communication(s) between a client and medical provider that meets the standards for financial reimbursement (Chaet et al., 2017; Dombo et al., 2014; Zhou et al., 2020). While sometimes referred to as telemental health or telebehavioral health, we use behavioral telehealth to describe these online interactions. Behavioral telehealth can include behavioral health (BH) services via one-one or group interactions through videoconferencing, telephone, text messages, e-mails, forums, or smartphone apps (Zhou et al., 2020).