Understanding Telehealth - Paperback

by Karen Schulder Rheuban (Author), Elizabeth A. Krupinski (Author)

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The first complete guide to the rapidly expanding field of telehealth

From email to videoconferencing, telehealth puts real-time healthcare solutions at patients' and clinicians' fingertips. Every year, the field continues to evolve, enhancing access to healthcare, supporting clinicians, and improving the patient experience. However, since telehealth is in its infancy, no text has offered a comprehensive, definitive survey of this up-and-coming field--until now.

Written by past presidents of the American Telemedicine Association, Understanding Telehealth explains how clinical applications leveraging telehealth technology are optimizing healthcare delivery. In addition, this timely resource examines the bedrock principles of telehealth and highlights the safety standards involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients through digital communications. Logically organized and supported by high-yield clinical vignettes, the book begins with essential background information, including a look at telehealth history, definitions and roles, and rural health. It then provides an overview of clinical services for adults, from telestroke to telepsychiatry. The third section addresses pediatric clinical services, encompassing pediatric emergency and critical care, telecardiology, and more.

A groundbreaking resource:

- Chapters cover a broad spectrum of technologies, evidence-based guidelines, and application of telehealth across the healthcare continuum

- Ideal for medical staff, public healthcare executives, hospitals, clinics, payors, healthcare advocates, and researchers alike

- Incisive coverage of the legal and regulatory environment underpinning telehealth practice

Back Jacket

Understanding Telehealth edited by Karen S. Rheubanand Elizabeth A. Krupinski is a wonderful additionto the literature for the rapidly growing field oftelemedicine and telehealth. Over the past 100 yearsor so, telecommunications and information systems havebecome highly utilized tools in the delivery of healthcare. Thishas and will continue to fundamentally changed how weteach our learners and how we practice medicine in the 21stcentury. Much of the published literature and textbooksprovide a strong pedagogical foundation for learners of allages and backgrounds.
The text that telemedicine and telehealth pioneers Rheubanand Krupinski have edited brings forth a rich collection ofwell-written and informative chapters. Editing a book is noeasy task and these editors are to be commended for theirefforts in shepherding a wide range and highly accomplishedauthors. This book is full of evidence-based medicine and itwill serve readers well in their pursuit of telemedicine andtelehealth as an effective tool in their practice or businessmodel.
--TELEMEDICINE AND e-HEALTH, April 2018

Author Biography

Karen S. Rheuban, MD is Associate Attending Physician, Pediatric Cardiology, University of Virginia Medical Center; Medical Director, University of Virginia Telemedicine Program.

Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD, FSPIE, FSIIM, FATA is Professor and Vice Chair of the Research Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University.