Understanding Health Communication Technologies

Health communications technologies such as telemedicine, online access to patient databases, and remote patient monitoring are the norm in all health care organizations. This book goes beyond clinical and technical description to provide a quantitative approach for evaluation and selection of appropriate technologies.

List of contents

Figures, Tables, and Exhibits.

Preface.

Foreword.

The Editors.

The Contributors.

PART ONE: IMPLEMENTATION.

1. Problems with Implementation: The Story of a Home Telecare Trial.

2. Challenges in Launching a Malaysian Teleconsulting Network.

3. Social Aspects of Implementing a Medical Information System: Cure or Symptom?.

4. Telemedicine at Shriners Hospitals for Children: One Size Does Not Fit All.

PART TWO: MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS.

5. Home Telehealth: Overcoming Buy-In Issues.

6. A Model for Persuading Decision Makers and Finding New Partners.

7. Leadership Issues Facing an E-Start-Up Management Team.

8. A Health Care Information System in Greece: Key Factors, Self-Organization, and Take-Home Lessons

9. The Anatomy of Failure? Teledermatology in an English City

PART THREE: COMMUNICATION.

10. Research as Dialogue: Health Communication and Behavior Change in Patients' Natural Habitat

11. Diagnosing the Communication Infrastructure in Order to Reach Target Audiences: A Study of Hispanic Communities in Los Angeles

12. The Role of Telehospice in End-of-Life Care

13. Doctor and Patient Interactions During Telemedicine: Clashes of Perceptions and Reality

PART FOUR: OUTCOMES.

14. Teletherapy for Childhood Depression: Where Is the Evidence?

15. Serving Children with Disabilities in Rural Iowa

16. Crisis Telehealth as a Cost Management Strategy

17. Using Point-of-Care to Reduce Medication Errors

18. The United Kingdom Virtual Outreach Project

19. The Financial Side of a Tele-Oncology Practice

PART FIVE: EDUCATION.

20. The Role of the Internet in Prostate Cancer Survivors' Illness Narratives

21. Successful Web Site Construction and Management: Harnessing the Skill and Enthusiasm of Volunteers

22. Multimedia Education for Gestational Diabetes Patients

23. New Paradigms for Continuing Education: Training Providers How to Use Technology

24. Telehealth in Cyberspace: Virtual Reality for Distance Learning in Health Education and Training

25. The SEEDS Project: From Health Care Information System to Innovative Educational Strategy

PART SIX: UNIQUE APPLICATIONS.

26. Bringing Care Home to the Rural Elderly: Clinician and Patient Satisfaction with Telehealth Communication

27. Systemwide Rollout of Doctor-Patient Secure Web Messaging: The University of California, Davis, Virtual Care Experience

28. Low-Vision Reaching Out Through Telemedicine: The Process of Implementing One Ophthalmic Subspecialty

29. Internet-Based Specialty Consultations: A Study of Adoption Challenges

30. Telerehabilitation: A Harvest of Multidisciplinary Services

PART SEVEN: TECHNOLOGY.

31. Sustainable Security: Building Virus and Vulnerability Management into an Organization's Culture

32. Designing Technology: A Case of Vendor and Provider Partnership

33. Behind the Applications: Making Technology Transparent

PART EIGHT: POLICY.

34. Policy and the Origins of the Arizona Statewide Telemedicine Program

35. The Long and Winding Road to Medicare Reimbursement

36. Addressing Barriers to Access for Uninsured in Western New York State: WNYhelpnet.org.

37. Using Computer Technologies to Provide Relevant Cancer Information to Vulnerable Populations: The NCI Digital Divide Pilot Projects.

38. Bridging the Digital Divide: Lessons from the Health InterNetwork India.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Product details

• Authors: Pam Whitten, Pam Cook Whitten
• Assisted by: David Cook (Editor), Pam Whitten (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2004
• EAN: 9780787971052
• ISBN: 978-0-7879-7105-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine