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Ocular Telehealth

A Practical Guide

  • 1st Edition - January 7, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: April Maa
  • Language: English

Ocular Telehealth focuses on the latest guidance for the implementation and use of telemedicine in eye care settings. Detailing both benefits and challenges, this consolida… Read more

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Description

Ocular Telehealth focuses on the latest guidance for the implementation and use of telemedicine in eye care settings. Detailing both benefits and challenges, this consolidated resource combines evidence-based literature with expert perspectives. Practicing and trainee ophthalmologists and optometrists will find this an indispensable resource for understanding the current issues and opportunities surrounding the integration of telemedicine into standard clinical practice.

Key features

  • Covers a range of topics, including remote patient monitoring, video communication skills, technology selection, and best practices for ensuring patient data protection.

  • Addresses the challenges associated with integrating telemedicine into clinical practice including reimbursement issues, ethical/legal considerations, implementation strategies, and patient engagement.

  • Features concise chapters written by a team of thought leaders on telemedicine.

  • Consolidates today’s available information on this timely topic into a single, convenient resource.

  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Readership

trainee and practicing ophthalmologists, optometrists

Table of contents

  1. Background, Definitions, and An Introduction to Ocular Telehealth
  2. Comprehensive Eye Telehealth
  3. Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery Telehealth
  4. Cornea, Anterior Segment, and External Disease Telehealth
  5. Glaucoma Telehealth
  6. Retina, Uveitis, Ocular Oncology Telehealth
  7. Pediatric Ocular Telehealth
  8. Tele-Neuro-Ophthalmology
  9. Low Vision Ocular Rehabilitation Telehealth
  10. Highlight on International Ocular Telehealth Programs in China and India
  11. Ocular In-Home Monitoring Devices
  12. Principles of Ocular Telehealth Implementation
  13. Technology Considerations for Implementing an Eye Telehealth Program
  14. Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement in Eye Telehealth Programs
  15. Ethical and Legal Considerations in Eye Telehealth Programs
  16. Monitoring Quality and Improving Services in Ocular Telehealth Programs
  17. Acute Ocular Triage Telehealth
  18. The Role of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Ocular Telehealth
  19. Education of Future Providers on Ocular Telehealth and Integration of Telehealth Into Future Practice

Review quotes

"This book provides a practical guide to optometric and ophthalmic telehealth and the specialties within those fields. The tables and figures are useful, and the information is well organized. The editor has managed to put together an impressive array of topics relating to ocular telehealth in a thorough, concise text for eye care providers." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2022, Theresa Cassidy, OD (Southern College of Optometry)

Doody's Score: 5 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 11, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

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April Maa

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor Clinical Director of TECS

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