Emerging Practices in Telehealth
Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field
- 1st Edition - February 15, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Andrew M. Freeman, Ami B. Bhatt
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 8 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 8 1 - 7
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Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field is an introduction to telehealth basics, best practices and implementation methods. The book guides the reader from start to finish through the workflow implementation of telehealth technology, including EMRs, clinical workflows, RPM, billing systems, and patient experience. It also explores how telehealth can increase healthcare access and decrease disparities across the globe. Practicing clinicians, medical fellows, allied healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and hospital IT professionals will all benefit from this practical guidebook.
Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field is an introduction to telehealth basics, best practices and implementation methods. The book guides the reader from start to finish through the workflow implementation of telehealth technology, including EMRs, clinical workflows, RPM, billing systems, and patient experience. It also explores how telehealth can increase healthcare access and decrease disparities across the globe. Practicing clinicians, medical fellows, allied healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and hospital IT professionals will all benefit from this practical guidebook.
- Serves as a key reference with practical tools for implementation, pearls of wisdom for success
- Helps users understand the full potential of telehealth
- Presents telehealth best practices and implementation methods in a practical and ready-to-use guide
- Edited by experts in the field who have set up telehealth programs and served as advisors to the American College of Cardiology on telehealth innovations
Practicing clinicians, medical fellows, allied healthcare professionals, hospital/clinical administrators, and hospital/clinical IT professionals
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. The basics of telehealth
- Introduction
- Statistics
- Common approaches/types of telehealth
- Telemedicine versus telehealth
- The benefits of telehealth
- Choosing a vendor+platforms
- Setting up for telehealth
- Tips for success
- A short primer on basic billing for telehealth
- Welcome to telehealth
- Chapter 2. Telehealth technology infrastructure and implementation strategies
- Introduction
- Universal technical infrastructure requirements of telehealth
- Disparities in broadband internet access
- Digital literacy
- Implementation strategies in areas without reliable broadband internet and low digital literacy
- Implementation strategies for individual or group clinician practices
- Implementation strategies for virtual-only services
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Telehealth implementation in clinical practice: integration into electronic medical records and clinical workflows
- Introduction
- Pre-implementation: implementing telehealth into clinical practice
- Integration into the EMR
- Clinical workflows: focusing on patient centered approach and best practices for telehealth visits
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Billing basics and fundamentals
- Key stakeholder payors
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Private payors
- VA's Veterans Health Administration and Department of Defense (VHA &DOD)
- Coding and billing (Fig. 4.1)
- Basic understanding coding systems
- Code modifiers
- Telehealth place of service (POS)
- Communication technology-based (CTB)
- Telehealth pre-pandemic (Fig. 4.2)
- Medicare
- State Medicaid
- Private insurers and state telehealth coverage
- US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Pandemic Fig. 4.2
- Medicare expansion of service
- Private insurance
- US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- So what happens after the end of the PHE? Fig. 4.2
- Chapter 5. Optimizing the patient experience for telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs: Best practices and requirements for success
- Introduction
- What are the requirements for a positive patient experience?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Legal considerations
- Legal and regulatory compliance in an era of rapid innovation
- Telehealth and the practice of medicine
- Remote prescribing of drugs and controlled substances
- Tort liability
- The corporate practice of medicine
- Fraud and abuse laws
- Digital health technology
- Subscription fee models and insurance laws
- Hospital telehealth credentialing and privileging
- Telehealth payment policy and reimbursement
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Continuous cardiology: the intersection of telehealth and remote patient monitoring
- Introduction
- What is remote patient monitoring?
- How did we get here?
- The current RPM landscape in cardiology
- The medicare model for RPM
- How can we best combine telehealth and RPM?
- Current challenges and future directions
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Creating the perfect telehealth product
- Introduction
- What is the perfect telehealth product?
- A brief history, challenges, and opportunities of telehealth products
- New product design and development
- Telehealth product building blocks and construction
- Heartbeat Health, a telehealth product case study
- Future directions of telehealth products
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Increasing access and decreasing disparity with telehealth
- Introduction
- Improving internet access and connectivity to help decrease disparities in telehealth
- Training of providers and support staff to help increase digital literacy and improved access to telehealth
- Improving budgets to increase access to telehealth and decrease health care disparities
- Improved reimbursement to increase access to telehealth and decrease disparities
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. The international telemedicine experience: Russia
- “Doctor–doctor” telemedical interaction
- “Patient–doctor” type of telemedicine
- Chapter 11. International telehealth implementation—the Indian experience, project CardioGram
- The Indian healthcare system
- National digital health mission
- Project CardioGram inception
- Evolution
- Lessons from early implementation
- Chapter 12. Global telehealth and digital health: how to support programs and infrastructure
- Key points
- Traditional healthcare models undergoing transformation
- Understand the healthcare ecosystem
- Evaluate the politics and geopolitical context
- Evaluate the potential, specific role of digital health technology
- Choosing the right digital health technology
- Evaluate the local development with an eye to scaling
- Putting it all together: launching the program
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13. The rise of AI in telehealth
- Artificial intelligence and its subtypes
- Telehealth and its subcategories
- Applications of AI in telehealth
- AI in telemedicine
- AI in remote patient monitoring
- AI in mobile health (mHealth)
- AI in store-and-forward: imaging and pathology
- Challenges of AI in tele-health and future directions
- Chapter 14. Pearls of wisdom from the past 5years of working in telehealth
- Introduction
- Changes that paved the way for telehealth adoption
- The effects of COVID-19 on telehealth adoption
- Emerging innovations in telehealth
- Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 15, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 246
- No. of pages (eBook): 246
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443159800
- eBook ISBN: 9780443159817
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Andrew M. Freeman
Andrew M. Freeman is an associate professor of medicine and director of clinical cardiology and cardiovascular prevention and wellness at the National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado. He has published numerous scholarly manuscripts on plant-based nutrition, and holds key leadership positions in the American College of Cardiology as well as the national level, including co-chair of the Lifestyle and Nutrition Workgroup and steering committee for the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention council. Dr. Freeman teaches medical, physician assistant, and pharmacy students, and has hosted many community lectures and CME programs.
Affiliations and expertise
associate professor of medicine and director of clinical cardiology and cardiovascular prevention and wellness at the National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado.AB
Ami B. Bhatt
Ami Bhatt is the director of telecardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bhatt serves as a medical advisor for digital and telehealth companies from inception, clinical trials, and FDA applications to sequential funding rounds. Her research centers on identifying and implementing solutions to barriers to access to cardiovascular and telemedicine care. Dr. Bhatt also leads national telemedicine education via the American College of Cardiology and serves on the Boston Board of the American Heart Association to address the significant global burden of South Asian Heart Disease. Internationally, she assists countries affected by COVID with an abrupt need to deliver remote care.
Affiliations and expertise
Chief Innovation Officer, American College of Cardiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, MA, USARead Emerging Practices in Telehealth on ScienceDirect