Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telepresence : Principles, Strategies, Applications, and New Directions

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 First Trainees: The Golden Anniversary of the Early History of Telemedicine Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard (1968–1970) (Ronald S. Weinstein, Michael J. Holcomb, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 3-18 Initiate-Build-Operate-Transfer (IBOT) Strategy Twenty Years Later: Tales from the Balkans and Africa (Rifat Latifi)....Pages 19-42 Clinical Telemedicine Practice: From Ad Hoc Medicine to Modus Operandi (Rifat Latifi)....Pages 43-49 Incorporation of Telemedicine in Disaster Management: Beyond the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Rifat Latifi, Charles R. Doarn)....Pages 51-61 Telemedicine and Health Information Exchange: An Opportunity for Integration (Dale C. Alverson)....Pages 63-76 Telehealth Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Research: Analysis of the PCORI Telehealth-Related Research Portfolio (Ronald S. Weinstein, Robert S. Krouse, Michael J. Holcomb, Camryn Payne, Kristine A. Erps, Elizabeth A. Krupinski et al.)....Pages 77-96 Standards and Guidelines in Teleheatlh: Creating a Compliance and Evidence-Based Telehealth Practice (Nina M. Antoniotti)....Pages 97-113 Federal and State Policies on Telehealth Reimbursement (Jordana Bernard, Mei Wa Kwong)....Pages 115-127 Legal and Regulatory Implications of Telemedicine (Geena George, Brandon E. Heitmann)....Pages 129-140 Business Aspects of Telemedicine (Nina M. Antoniotti)....Pages 141-155 Advancing Telehealth to Improve Access to Health in Rural America (Charles R. Doarn)....Pages 157-167 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Innovative Governance Model for a Sustainable State-Wide University-Based Telemedicine Program (Ronald S. Weinstein, Nandini Sodhi, Gail P. Barker, Michael J. Holcomb, Kristine A. Erps, Angelette Holtrust et al.)....Pages 171-188 Telehealth Patient Portal: Opportunities and Reality (Ronald C. Merrell)....Pages 189-195 Technology Enabled Remote Healthcare in Public Private Partnership Mode: A Story from India ( K. Ganapathy, Sangita Reddy)....Pages 197-233 International and Global Telemedicine: Making It Work (Dale C. Alverson)....Pages 235-255 Technological Advances Making Telemedicine and Telepresence Possible (Charles R. Doarn)....Pages 257-271 Front Matter ....Pages 273-273 Survey of the Direct-to-Hospital (DTH) Telemedicine and Telehealth Service Industry (2014–2018) (Ronald S. Weinstein, Nicholas Rolig, Nancy Rowe, Gail P. Barker, Kristine A. Erps, Michael J. Holcomb et al.)....Pages 275-292 Telemedicine for Trauma and Emergency Care Management (Rifat Latifi)....Pages 293-305 Telemedicine for Burn Care: The Commonsense Telemedicine (Dylan Stewart, Joseph R. Turkowski, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 307-320 Telemedicine for Intensive Care (Rifat Latifi, Kalterina Osmani)....Pages 321-331 Telehealth in Pediatric Care (Jennifer L. Rosenthal, Jamie L. Mouzoon, James P. Marcin)....Pages 333-346 Overview of Child Telebehavioral Interventions Using Real-Time Videoconferencing (Alexandra D. Monzon, E. Zhang, Arwen M. Marker, Eve-Lynn Nelson)....Pages 347-364 Telemedicine for Psychiatry and Mental Health (Matthew Garofalo, Sarah Vaithilingam, Stephen Ferrando)....Pages 365-378 Telecardiology (Milena Soriano Marcolino, Maria Beatriz Moreira Alkmim, Maira Viana Rego Souza e Silva, Renato Minelli Figueira, Raissa Eda de Resende, Letícia Baião Silva et al.)....Pages 379-400 Telestroke and Teleneurology (Benzion Blech, Bart M. Demaerschalk)....Pages 401-417 Telemedicine for Prisons and Jail Population: A Solution to Increase Access to Care (Rifat Latifi, Kalterina Osmani, Peter Kilcommons, Ronald S. Weinstein)....Pages 419-428 Front Matter ....Pages 429-429 Surgical Telementoring and Teleproctoring (Rifat Latifi, Xiang Da Dong, Ziad Abouezzi, Ashutosh Kaul, Akia Caine, Roberto Bergamaschi et al.)....Pages 431-453 The Promise and Hurdles of Telemedicine in Diabetes Foot Care Delivery (Bijan Najafi, Mark Swerdlow, Grant A. Murphy, David G. Armstrong)....Pages 455-470 Telemedicine in Austere Conditions (Charles R. Doarn)....Pages 471-483 Back Matter ....Pages 485-493 Telemedicine and telehealth have consistently been shown to be effective for remote areas or limited-resource locations, regular medical and surgical practice, primary care, second opinion, extreme conditions, major crises, and disaster management. The aim of this book is to bring all aspects of telemedicine and e-health to the reader, in a simple, make-sense approach, in one tome. The book is structured in four parts with 29 chapters written by the best experts in the field from around the world, including clinicians, scientists, and administrators of telemedicine programs. Part I deals with basic principles of telemedicine and telepresence. Historical journeys of telemedicine and strategies, building sustainable telemedicine and telehealth programs in the United States and in the Balkans, as well as incorporation of telemedicine in the current ongoing pandemic COVID-19 are well described and are must read. Current technological developments, rules and regulations, legal and business aspects and consent are also addressed. Part II describes strategies for building sustainable telemedicine and telehealth programs. Telehealth patient portals and public-private partnership modes of technology, as well the role of international telemedicine and how to make it work, are valuable chapters of great significance. Part III describes outcomes-based evidence clinical applications of telemedicine in trauma, burns, intensive care, pediatric care, psychiatry, and stroke. Finally, one important chapter for the readers is the telemedicine for prison and jail population. The final part, Part IV depicts surgical telementoring and teleproctoring, a chapter written by 18 various surgical experts, a true gem for the readers. The book ends with promises and hurdles of telemedicine in austere conditions. Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telepresence serves as a valuable resource that focuses on providing patients care from a distance using store and forward technology to live actual performance of operations at a distance. Chapters 1, 6, 12 and 17 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. "Telemedicine and telehealth have consistently been shown to be effective for remote areas or limited-resource locations, regular medical and surgical practice, primary care, second opinion, extreme conditions, major crises, and disaster management. The aim of this book is to bring all aspects of telemedicine and e-health to the reader, in a simple, make-sense approach, in one tome. The book is structured in four parts with 29 chapters written by the best experts in the field from around the world, including clinicians, scientists, and administrators of telemedicine programs. Part I deals with basic principles of telemedicine and telepresence. Historical journeys of telemedicine and strategies, building sustainable telemedicine and telehealth programs in the United States and in the Balkans, as well as incorporation of telemedicine in the current ongoing pandemic COVID-19 are well described and are must read. Current technological developments, rules and regulations, legal and business aspects and consent are also addressed. Part II describes strategies for building sustainable telemedicine and telehealth programs. Telehealth patient portals and public-private partnership modes of technology, as well the role of international telemedicine and how to make it work, are valuable chapters of great significance. Part III describes outcomes-based evidence clinical applications of telemedicine in trauma, burns, intensive care, pediatric care, psychiatry, and stroke. Finally, one important chapter for the readers is the telemedicine for prison and jail population. The final part, Part IV depicts surgical telementoring and teleproctoring, a chapter written by 18 various surgical experts, a true gem for the readers. The book ends with promises and hurdles of telemedicine in austere conditions. Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telepresence serves as a valuable resource that focuses on providing patients care from a distance using store and forward technology to live actual performance of operations at a distance."--Provided by publisher Telemedicine and telehealth have consistently been shown to be effective for remote areas or limited-resource locations, regular medical and surgical practice, primary care, second opinion, extreme conditions, major crises, and disaster management. The aim of this book is to bring all aspects of telemedicine and e-health to the reader, in a simple, make-sense approach, in one tome. The book is structured in four parts with 29 chapters written by the best experts in the field from around the world, including clinicians, scientists, and administrators of telemedicine programs. Part I deals with basic principles of telemedicine and telepresence. Historical journeys of telemedicine and strategies, building sustainable telemedicine and telehealth programs in the United States and in the Balkans, as well as incorporation of telemedicine in the current ongoing pandemic COVID-19 are well described and are must read. Current technological developments, rules and regulations, legal and business aspects and consent are also addressed. Part II describes strategies for building sustainable telemedicine and telehealth programs. Telehealth patient portals and public-private partnership modes of technology, as well the role of international telemedicine and how to make it work, are valuable chapters of great significance. Part III describes outcomes-based evidence clinical applications of telemedicine in trauma, burns, intensive care, pediatric care, psychiatry, and stroke. Finally, one important chapter for the readers is the telemedicine for prison and jail population. The final part, Part IV depicts surgical telementoring and teleproctoring, a chapter written by 18 various surgical experts, a true gem for the readers. The book ends with promises and hurdles of telemedicine in austere conditions. __Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telepresence__ serves as a valuable resource that focuses on providing patients care from a distance using store and forward technology to live actual performance of operations at a distance.