Telehealth in Urology
- 1st Edition - November 26, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Dara Lundon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 4 8 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 4 8 1 - 6
Offering significant benefits to both healthcare providers and patients, telehealth is a key component in the future of urology and patient care. Telehealth in Urology is a step-by… Read more
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Request a sales quoteOffering significant benefits to both healthcare providers and patients, telehealth is a key component in the future of urology and patient care. Telehealth in Urology is a step-by-step, illustrated guide for clinicians who are beginning a telehealth offering or are interested in adopting new digital technologies—all specific and relevant to today’s urology practice. It covers the key information you need to know—from necessary equipment to the practice team—with clear explanations of how you can best use telemedicine to provide timely, effective care to every patient.
Explains how to establish and conduct telehealth consultations and describes the growing number of options in telehealth diagnostics, patient monitoring, and digital therapeutics.
Offers practical examples of conducting telehealth visits for common adult and pediatric urological complaints, for both benign and malignant conditions.
Guides readers step by step through the many practical challenges of telemedicine for clinicians, patients, and practices, and describes the opportunities that lay ahead for the field.
Covers regulatory, compliance, and technical principles of telehealth devices and applications for use in urology, including key topics such as data protection, patient privacy, e-prescribing, remote diagnostics and monitoring, and much more.
Urologists, and physicians with an interest in men’s health, digital health and remote care, and practice managers with an interest in telemedicine
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Part 1. Regulations concerning telehealth provision
- Chapter 1. Regulations and requirements for telehealth provision
- Introduction
- Regulation of telemedicine in the European Union
- Federal US legislation relevant to the practice of telehealth in the United States
- Requirements for telehealth
- Chapter 2. Patient privacy laws
- Introduction
- Privacy controls in the USA
- European regulations and laws
- Conclusions
- Part 2. How do I get started providing a telehealth service?
- Chapter 3. Getting started in telehealth
- Introduction
- The opportunity and the challenge
- Implementation and strategy
- Chapter 4. Infrastructure and security in telehealth
- Introduction
- Wireless communication infrastructure
- Risks of electromagnetic radiation to patients—long-term exposure to different parts of the spectrum
- Security for telehealth
- Chapter 5. Patient considerations and Leading change for telehealth providers
- Introduction
- Helping patients and your practice through organizational change
- Implementation strategy
- Proactive versus reactive technical support for patients
- Engage patients with telemedicine
- Part 3. What telehealth tools are available for urology?
- Chapter 6. Telehealth tools, conducting a consultation and the ethical practice of telemedicine
- Introduction
- The patient–doctor relationship
- Virtual phone
- Online patient web portal
- Video chat platforms
- Conducting a consultation
- The ethical practice of telehealth
- Chapter 7. Remote diagnostics in urology
- Introduction
- Ideal characteristics of medical conditions amenable to telediagnosis
- Symptom diaries, questionnaires, and recording subjective assessments
- Blood tests
- Urine
- Flow rates/basic urodynamics
- Diagnostic imaging
- Conclusions
- Chapter 8. Remote patient monitoring in urology
- Introduction
- Benefits of remote monitoring
- Remote patient monitoring postoperatively
- Chapter 9. Digital therapeutics
- Introduction
- Example use cases of digital therapeutics
- Digitally enabled treatments
- Barriers to adoption
- Chapter 10. Remote surgery
- Introduction
- History of robotic surgery
- Telementoring
- Telesurgery
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11. E-prescribing
- Introduction
- E-prescribing—a tool to address the large burden of urological disease and the limited workforce?
- Opportunities for e-prescribing
- Drug misuse and diversion in urology is not a new problem
- Challenges to e-prescribing
- Case examples—sexual health & erectile dysfunction
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 26, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 146
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323874809
- eBook ISBN: 9780323874816
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Dara Lundon
Dara Lundon - Dr.Lundon MD MBA PhD is Director of Clinical Trials and Innovation at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York. Dr. Lundon graduated from The School of Medicine at University College Dublin where he was admitted as an Entrance Scholar for outstanding academic achievement. He undertook his residency in Ireland and subsequently completed his Ph.D in Prostate Cancer Biology under the supervision of Professor R.W.G Watson and the late Professor John M. Fitzpatrick. Dr. Lundon received a scholarship to the NCI Cancer Prevention Program at the NIH in Bethesda MD and completed a fellowship in NYU under the supervision of Professor Stacy Loeb. Dr. Lundon completed an MBA and was an analyst on the number 1 ranked team on Wall Street in Large Cap Pharma, Biotech and Specialty Pharma. Prostate biopsy is an invasive procedure with a risk of significant morbidity. Dr. Lundon’s clinical research work has translated discoveries from bench to bedside and helped reduce the number of unnecessary prostate biopsies in men
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Director of Clinical Trials & Innovation, Assistant Professor of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New YorkRead Telehealth in Urology on ScienceDirect