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E-HEALTH, TELEHEALTH and TELEMEDICINE
A Practical Guide to Startup & Success

Access the power of health care telecommunication technologies. E-health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethics, laws, and technical options. E-health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine also includes illustrative examples of ehealth, telehealth, and telemedicine models from successful health care organizations.

Using this practical guide health care professionals can learn how to:

Create a business plan, that attracts funding, and leads to robust referral networks.

Choose the best equipment to meet specific programmatic needs.

Makes sense of the computerization of medical records including issues such as privacy, confidentiality, security and data integrity.

Apply the best practices practical for protecting their organizations and patients in the electronic health care environment.

Access online resources of relevant web sites, email lists, and publications.

Develop successful risk management policies and in addition, the authors offer an insightful overview of telecommunication technology's influence upon health care, present a review of the most current literature on the topic, and include practical information about what to do to get started.

THE AUTHORS

Marlene Maheu, Ph.D., is the CEO and President of E-health Interactive and the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of SelfhelpMagazine She is also the Director of Telehealth for the California School of Professional Psychology.

Pamela Whitten, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications, Michigan State University. Formerly she was the Director of Telemedicine Services at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Ace Allen, M.D., is the Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine Today Magazine, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center and CEO, Today Communications, Inc.