Global Telehealth 2015: Integrating Technology and Information for Better Healthcare

G. Gillis, D. Newsham, A.J. Maeder, Grant Gillis, Don Newsham, Anthony J. Maeder

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781614995043
• eBook ISBN: 9781614995050
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

The adoption of telehealth is growing, accompanied by a diversification of service delivery and a broadening of access. All of this is pushing the boundaries of traditional healthcare worldwide. Latest developments include the growth of Mobile Health (mHealth), with access to information and services by means of personal devices such as tablet computers and smart phones, virtual healthcare services, which use online interactive environments to engage with the subject of care and remotely enable or mimic the desired patient-clinician relationship, and the personal and home health monitoring market. This book presents the proceedings of Global Telehealth 2015 (GT2015), hosted by COACH: Canada?s Health Informatics Association, and held in May 2015, in Toronto, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is ?Serving the Underserved: Integrating Technology & Information for Better Healthcare?. The leadership and knowledge reflected in the 25 papers collected here will promote the equity of access and uniform provision of healthcare services and influence health policy and strategic decisions worldwide, and the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the various forms of telehealth in use today.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Global Telehealth 2015 Steering Committee
• Global Telehealth 2015 Scientific Program and Review Committee
• Contents
• Bridging the Distance in the Caribbean: Telemedicine as a Means to Build Capacity for Care in Paediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders
• The Experiences of Patients Undertaking a 'Virtual' Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
• ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain & Opioid Stewardship: Providing Access and Building Capacity for Primary Care Providers in Underserviced, Rural, and Remote Communities
• Scaling Up the Use of Remote Patient Monitoring in Canada
• Building a Patient-Centered Hospital Web Site: Best Practices in China
• Perspectives of Champlain BASE Specialist Physicians: Their Motivation, Experiences and Recommendations for Providing eConsultations to Primary Care Providers
• Improving Mental Health Care for Young Adults in Badakshan Province of Afghanistan Using eHealth
• Improving Access to Pediatric Cardiology in Cape Verde via a Collaborative International Telemedicine Service
• Improving Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation Using the Internet: A Randomized Trial
• What Are the Costs of Improving Access to Specialists Through eConsultation? The Champlain BASE Experience
• The Current State of Electronic Consultation and Electronic Referral Systems in Canada: An Environmental Scan
• Achieving Greater Consistency in Telehealth Project Evaluations to Improve Organisational Learning
• Governance and Management of National Telehealth Programs in Asia
• Telehomecare Reduces ER Use and Hospitalizations at William Osler Health System
• Telehealth Application in Occupational Health
• Exploring the Views of Emergency Department Staff on the Use of Videoconferencing for Mental Health Emergencies in Southwestern Ontario
• Hype, Harmony and Human Factors: Applying User-Centered Design to Achieve Sustainable Telehealth Program Adoption and Growth
• eHealth for Remote Regions: Findings from Central Asia Health Systems Strengthening Project
• Community Health Nursing Through a Global Lens
• Improved Immediate and Continued-Care Outcomes for Stroke Through Community-Wide Data
• Optimal Care Mother-Baby and Outcomes Through Community-Wide Data Sharing, Interoperability and Connectivity
• Evaluating a Telehealth Follow-Up Program for Cardiology Patients Using Administrative Data
• Analysis and Typology of Global eHealth Platforms - A Survey on Five Continents
• Meeting the Semantic Challenge of the Globally Unique Identification of Medicinal Products - The openMedicine Approach
• Re-Thinking Models of Patient Empowerment
• Subject Index
• Author Index