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Digital Health

Telemedicine and Beyond

  • 1st Edition - October 21, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Dipu Patel
  • Language: English

Digital Health: Telemedicine and Beyond describes practical ways to use digital health tools in clinical practice. With a strong focus on case studies and patient outcomes,… Read more

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Digital Health: Telemedicine and Beyond describes practical ways to use digital health tools in clinical practice. With a strong focus on case studies and patient outcomes, this title provides an overview of digital medicine, terms, concepts, and applications for the multidisciplinary clinical practitioner. Chapters provide a concise, yet comprehensive understanding of digital health, including telemedicine, mHealth, EHRs, and the benefits and challenges of each. The book gives insights on risks and benefits associated with storing and transmitting patient information via digital tools and educates clinicians in the correct questions to ask for advocacy regarding state laws, scope of practice, and medicolegal implications.

It also addresses the ethical and social challenges that digital health raises, how to engage patients to improve shared decision-making models and how digital health tools can be integrated into clinical practice. This book is a valuable resource for clinicians and medical educators of all health professions, including physicians, physician associates, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

Key features

  • Provides a clinical perspective on digital health
  • Written by clinicians for clinicians with the patient in mind
  • Describes practical ways to use digital health tools in clinical practice
  • Includes case studies to incorporate workflows into practice to improve patient outcomes

Readership

clinicians and medical educators of all health professions, including physicians, physician associates, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists healthcare marketing and management, pharmaceutical management

Table of contents

Introduction

Foreword
John Nosta


1. Digital Health: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Medicine
Dipu Patel


2. Diagnosing the Future: The Roles of Artificial Intelligence in the Forthcoming Medical Epoch
Mark DiMauro and Marty Rosenheck


3. AI in Medical Education: Challenges and Opportunities
Marty Rosenheck

Digital Medicine in Practice


4. Telemedicine: History, Foundation, and Clinical Implementation
Mercedes Dodge and Kathryn Werner


5. Beyond the Wrist: Wearables in Healthcare
Hina Mazharuddin


6. mHealth
Stefan Buttigieg


7. Looking Ahead: The Future of Electronic Health Records
Emily Lewis


8. Bridging the Gap: Empowering Patients with Health Apps
Tom Micklewright


9. Remote Patient Monitoring
Lisa Shock


10. From Data to Diagnosis: The Power of Precision Medicine in Digital Health
Josh Borgstadt and Dipu Patel


11. Hospital to Home: Bridging the Gap with Personalized Medicine
Harvey Castro and Dipu Patel


12. Robot-Assisted Surgery: Past, Present, and Future
Jessica Grasso


13. Understanding Digital Therapeutics
Agnes Compagnone and Rachel Cole


14. Digital Therapeutics: A New Era of Technology for Treatment
Whitney Stewart


15. Digital Health and the Future of Primary Care
Dipu Patel and Amit Dey


16. Integrating Digital Medicine in Rural Communities
Susan McDiarmid and Sonia Otte

Billing and Coding

17. Coding for Telehealth/CMS guidelines
Aditi Joshi


18. ICD10 and SNOMED CT: The Role of Healthcare Classification Systems in Digital Health
Sara Gallo

Legal and Ethical Issues

19. Digital Health Law
Jeremy Sherer and Amy Joseph


20. Use and Reuse of Data: Access, Ownership, Value, and Trust
Danny Van Roijen


21. Ethical Issues for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Derek Leben


22. Health Policy
Kathryn Reed, Nathan Miracle, Amy Brown, and Christine Rodgers


23. Regulatory Considerations
Mona Kelley and Caitlin Kelley

Research


24. Navigating Data Quality in the Digital Health Era: Validation, Verification, and IRB
Christina Davis, Jeff Cooper, and Dave Beck


25. Healthcare, Trials, and Digital Impact
Samarth Kashyap and Shambhavi Singh

Where To Now?


26. Future Trends
Arta Bakshandeh


27. Battling Misinformation
Michael Smith and Chelsea Backer


28. Educating the Next Generation in Digital Medicine
Vanessa Bester and Eric Van Hecke


29. Classroom Best Practices
Carlos Gutierrez, Sarah Bolander, Stephanie Jalaba, and Ryan Kingsley


30. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Classroom
Carlos Gutierrez, Sarah Bolander, Stephanie Jalaba, and Ryan Kingsley


31. Student Perspective: Doctorate of Physician Assistant Studies: Digital Health Initiatives
Allison Bakowicz and Megan Gallagher


32. Student Perspective: From Education to Practice
Dua Abbas


33. Student Perspective: Interpreting the Future: Navigating the Tele-Revolution in Healthcare Language Access
Muhiyadin Aden


34. Organizational Perspectives
Amy Haller and Ben Reynolds


35. Patient perspectives
Debra Ruh

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 25, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

DP

Dipu Patel

Dipu Patel is the vice chair for Innovation in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. She has clinical experience in emergency medicine, urgent care, and hematology/oncology, and has served on several boards including the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Physician Assistants. She has developed and taught a wide array of courses that speak to clinical diagnosis and reasoning, evidence-based medicine, health policy, physical exam and history taking, classroom technology, and professional development. Prior to joining the Department of PA Studies, she served as director of Clinical Pathways at a healthcare technology startup, where she led a team of global clinicians to assure that each clinical pathway is provider-driven and patient-centered. Incorporating clinical skills and knowledge with new technology that enhances patient education and advocacy is what drives her work. Her scholarly interests include healthcare innovation, technology, and workforce development.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Pittsburg, Vice Chair of Innovation, Department of PA Studies, USA

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