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Handbook of InformaticsHandbook of Informaticsfor Nurses & Healthcare Professionalsfor Nurses & Healthcare Professionals

Fifth EditionFifth Edition

CHAPTER

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals, Fifth EditionToni Hebda • Patricia Czar

Telehealth

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Learning OutcomesLearning Outcomes

1. Define the term telehealth.2. List the advantages of telehealth.3. Identify equipment and technology

needed to sustain telehealth.4. Discuss present and proposed

telehealth applications.5. Describe legal and practice issues that

affect telehealth.


Learning OutcomesLearning Outcomes

6. Review the implications of telehealth for nursing and other health professions.

7. Identify several telenursing applications.

8. Discuss some issues pertaining to the practice of telenursing.


TelehealthTelehealth

• The use of telecommunication technologies and computers to exchange healthcare information and to provide services to clients at another location, previously known as telemedicine.


What is telehealth?What is telehealth?


Telehealth – Telemedicine ??Telehealth – Telemedicine ??

• Store-and-forward• Interactive conferencing


TelehealthTelehealth


EquipmentEquipment


Basic homecare SystemBasic homecare System


BenefitsBenefits

• Increase access to care and to specialist• Increase quality of care (home, time, continous)• Extend the care services• Centralized health record• Collaboration among healthcare professional• Improved decision making• Education• May lower cost of healthcare


The Scope of TelehealthThe Scope of Telehealth

• The United States led in the development of technologies that enable telehealth

• Current world leaders in the use of telehealth:– Australia– Canada– Norway– Sweden


Legal and Privacy IssuesLegal and Privacy Issues

• Reimbursement and licensure issues• Referral and Payment• Support Personnel• Liability• Licensure issue• Confidentiality issue


Other Telehealth IssuesOther Telehealth Issues

• Lack of standards• Need for technical support• Lack of available infrastructure• Accreditation and regulatory

requirements• Limitations• Lack of funding• Quality of service rendered


TelenursingTelenursing

The use of telehealth/telemedicine technology to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing practice

Uses:– Telephone triage– Follow-up calls– Obtaining test result & physiologic parameter– Education & consultation– Patient assessment– telepresent


Requirement Requirement

• Licensure (NLC)• Competencies (AAACN & ANA)


Nurse Licensure Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)Compact (NLC)

• Multistate licensure for eligible nurses to practice in any participating state

• Participating states “recognize” the licensure of the original state in which the nurse practices, eliminating the need to be licensed in the second state

• Currently recognized in approximately half of the states

• Supported by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing


Primary residence in compact state = multistate licensePrimary residence in noncompact state = single state license


Telehealth ResourcesTelehealth Resources

• American Telemedicine Association - http://www.americantelemed.org/

• The American Nurses Association Core Principles on Telehealth

• American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, Telehealth Nursing Practice Standard, 4th ed.

• HRSA Rural health http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/about/telehealth/index.html

• International TeleNurses Association (ITNA)


Future DirectionsFuture Directions

• Telehealth is expected to change the way that healthcare is delivered and create new roles for providers.

• The role of the healthcare consumer is also evolving with the development of telehealth applications.

• Telehealth offers the means to help keep an elderly population independent in their own homes.


• http://www.ecnmag.com/articles/2011/03/wireless-technologies-build-momentum-telehealth-systems

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