Main 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: 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