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Telehealth in Rural Hospitals - Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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Telehealth in Rural Hospitals - Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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Improving the quality of healthcare, while increasing accessibility
and lowering costs, is a complex dilemma facing rural communities
around the world. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania believed that
telehealth, the use of electronic information and
telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical
healthcare was a viable solution so it recently provided grants to
conduct a thorough investigation into the factors
involved.Telehealth in Rural Hospitals: Lessons Learned from
Pennsylvania reports the outcome of this year-long investigation.
Illustrating telehealth implementations in rural settings, it
supplies an overview of telehealth as well as an assessment of its
economic impact.The book skillfully intertwines the research and
academic aspects of telehealth with helpful insights from the
author. One of the most important discoveries made by the author
and her team of researchers is that all too often money is wasted
by implementing telehealth for services that don't impact many
people. This book shares valuable insights on using telehealth for
integrative health practices that could improve the health of a
greater portion of the population.This book illustrates how
telehealth can, indeed, be the healthcare savior that some people
believe it will be, but only under the right circumstances. It
details exactly what those circumstances are so that everyone,
including clinicians, patients, government entities, and vendors,
can steer toward the best future path.The author identifies the
obstacles preventing wider implementation of telehealth and
explains how recent federal legislation will affect telehealth
implementation in rural communities. She also points out the folly
of developing electronic health records before federal data
standards are put into place.The book concludes by detailing best
practices and lessons learned for implementing a telehealth program
in any state. It also outl
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