This lecture explores the value of expanding care delivery using best-practice telehealth tools and services. It will also describe the growing use of telemonitoring systems as a bi-directional and electronically-mediated delivery of health care over short or great distances; how social determinants are related to access to care needs and telehealth solutions; consideration of appropriate telehealth technologies in the context of physiological, psychiatric, and psychological assessments and remote monitoring; and collaborative self-management support and patient self-care feedback loops under the supervision of trained health care providers.
0:00 Expanding Access with Technology Lecture - Introduction to Telehealth
0:38 Learning Objectives
2:09 Telehealth can be classified into three groups based on the ways it is transmitted: - Store-and-forward - Remote patient monitoring - Synchronous telemedicine
4:27 The use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient's health
5:47 Telemedicine History From 2000 on
6:47 Telemedicine Report to Congress (Updated in 2001)
7:50 Continued health care system performance pressures and patient service expectations will further the integration of telemedicine into medical care
8:32 Teletherapy sessions can assist with depression
11:02 Telehealth services have the potential to improve care and reduce costs • Telemedicine is a subset of telehealth
11:57 Unit 9 Summary: Expanding Access with Technology • Telehealth advances can address medical access concerns
