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
Table of Contents
Section I: Interprofessional Education/ Practice
Chapter 1: Definitions, concepts, history
Chapter 2: Core competencies for IPE
Chapter 3: Technology and simulations
Chapter 4: Creating opportunities of IPE/IPP
Chapter 5: Barriers to implementation
Section II: Telehealth
Chapter 1: Definitions, concepts, and history
Chapter 2: Laws and regulations, Insurance companies
Chapter 3: Technology
Chapter 4: Establishing telehealth programs in clinical practice
Chapter 5: Establishing telehealth opportunities in educational curricula
Chapter 6: Health Informatics and Health Literacy
Section III: Interprofessional Education/Practice using Telehealth in different Healthcare Professions
A. Clinical Practice
Chapter 1: Primary Care Physicians
Chapter 2: Psychiatry
Chapter 3: Neurology
Chapter 4: Surgery
Chapter 5: Dentist
Chapter 6: Nursing
Chapter 7: Speech-Language Pathology
Chapter 8: Occupational Therapy
Chapter 9: Physical Therapy
Chapter 10: Social Worker
B. Educational Curriculum
Chapter 1: The Concept and Implementation of Interprofessional Telehealth Board at Stony Brook University
Chapter 2: Clinical Case I
Chapter 3: Clinical Case II
Chapter 4: Creating Standardized cases using telehealth
Chapter 5: Barriers to implementation
