"Handbook to Rural Telehealth & Telemedicine"

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1. Introduction
   • What is Telehealth?
     1. History of Telehealth
     2. Telehealth Concepts
   • Why Telehealth?
     1. Changing Demographics
     2. Technological Trends
     3. Disease Trends
     4. Health Care Costs
     5. Physician Availability
     6. Managed Care
2. Telecommunications
   • Basic Concepts
   • Acquiring Telecommunications Capability
   • Building Networks
   • Terminology of Telecommunications
3. Telehealth
   • Telehealth Infrastructure
     1. Image Storage and Retrieval
     2. Patient Data Storage and Retrieval
   • Telehealth Infrastructure: Data Acquisition and Information Presentation
     1. Interactive Videoconferencing
     2. Text Acquisition
     3. Text Presentation
     4. Image Acquisition
     5. Image Presentation
   • Telehealth Applications
     1. Institutional Integration of Health Information
     2. Scheduling/Tracking
     3. Patient/Provider Education
     4. Teleradiology
     5. Telepathology
     6. Telecardiology
     7. Telemedicine
     8. Telepharmacy
     9. Telepsychology/telepsychiatry
4. Telehealth and Integrated Networks
   • Overview
   • Hospital/Provider Information Systems
   • Community Health Information Networks
5. Issues in Telehealth
   • Quality of Care
   • Public and Private Reimbursement
   • Credentialing/Licensing
   • Liability/Confidentiality
     1. Losing Confidential Information
     2. Computer Tampering, Virus Infection and other Computer Crimes
     3. Data Processing Disasters
     4. Acquiring Adequate Telehealth Systems
     5. Violation of Software Licenses
     6. Losing Proprietary Rights in Technology or Infringing on Someone Else's Rights
     7. Hiring Information Technology Professionals
     8. Contracting for the Development of Technology
   • Telehealth Technologies
     1. Telehealth Infrastructure
     2. Telecommunications Infrastructure
     3. Compatibility
6. Glossary of Telehealth Terms

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