E-Health, Telehealth and Telemedicine: A Guide to Startup and 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.
Review/s:
For anyone interested in the electronic revolution that is transforming health care world wide, Maheu, Whitten & Allen go to the heart of the matter with their new book. I consider it essential reading.--G. Edward Kriese, CEO MedicalRecord.com
This book provides an insightful and up-to-date overview of the maturing influence that telecommunications and information technologies have on the social, legal, economic and quality issues that impact our health care delivery system as well as what we can speculate the future landscape will be. --Jay Sanders president and CEO The Global Telemedicine Group
A must-read book filled with a wealth of practical information about e-health, telehealth and telemedicine. Written in a very understandable style aimed to meet the needs of health practitioners, not technologists. --Warren B. Karp, Professor of Pediatrics and Coordinator of Telemedicine and Distance Learning Activities for the Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia
To the many who grapple with the momentous changes that digital networks bring to health care, we have Drs. Maheu, Whitten and Allen to thank for capturing the excitement of these explosive developments. With wide ranging assessment, uncanny accuracy and valuable insights, this book reveals the promise of E-health, telehealth and telemedicine - and the staggering implications of technology in our daily lives. --Eric Pulier, Chairman/CoFounder, US Interactive, Inc. (NASDAQ USIT)
This book will guide you through the E-health maze and help you plan, implement and evaluate health care services that use telecommunications. The authors describe cutting-edge technologies and explain how to use them effectively. They are truly leaders of the E-health frontier! --Kathryn Dansky, RN, Associate Professor Department of Health Policy & Administration, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
A great frontier of E-health is opening, with countless opportunities to leverage technology to keep a very important promise of the information age: access to high quality, affordable health care for all. Like Lewis & Clark, Maheu, Allen & Whitten have mapped the terrain, aiding the journeys of all who follow. --S. Robert Levine, M.D., Chairman & Chief Medical Officer MedHelp.com
Recent advances in telecommunication and imaging technology are allowing profound changes in the interactions among physicians, their patients and other health care practitioners. This book provides a prescient introduction to the possibilities these new technologies provide in improving the quality and efficiency of health care delivery. --Thomas Zeffiro M.D. Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center
A must-read book filled with a wealth of practical information about e-health, telehealth, and telemedicine. Written in a very understandable style aimed to meet the needs of health practitioners, not technologists. --Warren B. Karp, Ph.D., D.M.D.Professor of PediatricsCoordinator of Telemedicine and Distance Learning Activities for the Department of Pediatrics, The Medical College of Georgia
Telemedicine and telehealth are evolving so rapidly, with such protean manifestations, that it's nearly impossible to keep up with current developments. Maheu, Whitten, and Allen -- who bring together an impressively broad and deep knowledge of the field--do an exceptional job of integrating this information. The book is clearly written, and while it serves as a very good introduction for those new to telehealth, even those with much experience in the use of telecommunications technology in health care will find it informative and thought-provoking.--Jim Grigsby, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
E-health, Telehealth and Telemedicine: A Practical Guide to Startup and Success is an exceptionally comprehensive and pertinent book written by experts in these modes of health care delivery. It should be on the bookshelves of all professionals contemplating using these technologies in the delivery of health care as it is an invaluable source of information. This book is certainly to be strongly recommended. --Dr. Frances S. MairSenior, Lecturer (Clinical) Primary Care Department, Primary Care University, Liverpool, England
Congratulations to the authors! They will have a ready audience especially folks waiting for clear definitions of telehealth, telemedicine and e-health. It's an expansive reach, covering all of what is now available in the field. I will recommend this book to all of my nursing colleagues. --Nancy J. Sharp, MSN, RN, FAAN, TelE-health Consultant for the American College of Nurse Practitioners
There is no question that the Internet will revolutionalize service delivery in medicine and mental health as we know it. For those who are still reluctant to jump on the band wagon, this book explains it all. It gives reasons, evidence, arguments and even counter arguments about the use of Internet in the delivery of those services. It is the most useful, complete, and unique compendium of all the information any beginner (and even advanced practitioner) needs to know about how to use and even profit by administration and delivery of professional services. For those who are still reluctant to get their feet wet, this is as painless introduction to jump in. Pity those who are going to be left behind! --Luciano L'Abate, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Georgia State University
E-health, Telehealth & Telemedicine: A Practical Guide to Startup and Success delivers what the title promises. This lucid and well-researched book serves as both introduction and reference to the dramatic changes that digital communications are bringing to every aspect of healthcare. Political analyses, philosophical speculations and sociological predictions are avoided in favor of nuts and bolts information. In this way the authors have achieved a balance between breadth and detail that offers a solid point of departure and clear perspective for clinicians, administrators, investors, entrepreneurs and developers. The book touches adequately on all areas one needs to know to become a players in the burgeoning E-health field, yet provides extensive bibliographic leads to specialized material. Myron L. Pulier, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J
