Full Description
At a time when telehealth is being used more widely than ever before, this new book from Kimberly Noel and Renee Fabus meets an urgent need for evidence around optimal telehealth training to support interprofessional practice.
This textbook will be invaluable to all healthcare professionals who would like to incorporate telehealth into interprofessional education and practice. It discusses the role of social determinants of health, health literacy and aspects of health informatics in practice, and illustrates telehealth in different healthcare professions.
Simply written and easy to follow, it takes the reader through what they need to know about telehealth, interprofessional telehealth competencies, virtual healthcare, teaching telehealth and virtual clinical examination skills. This text is suitable for students in medical school and the range of professional healthcare programs.
Written in straight-forward language and easy to follow
Contributions from international experts
Showcases best practices for adoption of telehealth technology that is safe, appropriate, data-driven, equitable and team-based
Exercises help link theory to practice
Resources and clinical cases
Contents
Section I. Foundations of IPE in Telehealth
1. Introduction
2. Definitions and Core Competencies
3. Core Competency in Virtual Physical Exam
Section II. Telehealth
4. Foundations of Telehealth. lessons from telehealth practice from the US
5. Establishing Telehealth Programs in Clinical Practice
6. Financing Telehealth
7. Telehealth Technology
8. Implementing Telehealth Technologies
9. Social Determinants of Telehealth
10. Inclusive Innovation
Section III. Educating Future Clinicians
11. Introducing Students to Telehealth
12. In-Depth Remote Physical Assessment
