Offering significant benefits to both healthcare providers and patients, telehealth is a key component in the future of urology and patient care. Telehealth in Urology is a step-by-step, illustrated guide for clinicians who are beginning a telehealth offering or are interested in adopting new digital technologies-all specific and relevant to today's urology practice. It covers the key information you need to know-from necessary equipment to the practice team-with clear explanations of how you can best use telemedicine to provide timely, effective care to every patient. - Explains how to establish and conduct telehealth consultations and describes the growing number of options in telehealth diagnostics, patient monitoring, and digital therapeutics.
- Offers practical examples of conducting telehealth visits for common adult and pediatric urological complaints, for both benign and malignant conditions.
- Guides readers step by step through the many practical challenges of telemedicine for clinicians, patients, and practices, and describes the opportunities that lay ahead for the field.
- Covers regulatory, compliance, and technical principles of telehealth devices and applications for use in urology, including key topics such as data protection, patient privacy, e-prescribing, remote diagnostics and monitoring, and much more.
Table of Contents- 1 Data protection
- 2 Patient privacy laws
- 3 Getting started
- 4 Infrastructure requirements
- 5 Patient considerations
- 6 Tele-health tools for conducting medical consultations
- 7 Remote diagnostics
- 8 Tele-monitoring / remote monitoring
- 9 Tele-surgery
- 10 Digital therapeutics
- 11 E-prescribing
- 12 Establishing vs established patient-physician relationships
- 13 Out of pocket vs covered care models
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