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What HIM Professionals Need to Know About Telehealth
Author: Davis, Adrian
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 2015
This year the American Telemedicine Association estimates more than 450,000 patients will see a doctor in the form of a virtual visit over a secure Internet connection. As new models for service delivery and population health emerge, virtual physician visits are fast becoming an important....
Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Health Information Technology
Author: American Telemedicine Association
Source: External web site
Publication Date: May 15, 2006
Telemedicine Technology in Correctional Facilities
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1998
Telemedicine is the use of any electronic signal to transmit medical information from one site to another. This includes the transmission of medical information by video, e-mail, telephone, and satellite. Benefits of these transmissions include:
improved access to healthcare....
Telemedicine Services and the Health Record (2013 update)
Author: Johnson, Marlene L.; Warner, Diana
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: May 2013
Editor's Note: This practice brief supersedes the April 1997 practice brief "Telemedical Records."
Telemedicine is a rapidly growing industry in the medical practice. Telemedicine is defined as telecommunications systems that link healthcare organizations and patients from d....
Telemedicine: Bridging Gaps in Healthcare Delivery
Author: Majerowicz, Anita; Tracy, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: May 2010
Traditionally, healthcare has been provided in the physician’s office, hospital, or outpatient clinic. Patient care has been based primarily on face-to-face contact, with the exchange of information via conversation.
However, technology is changing how and where care is delivered. M....
Telemedical Records (1997)
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: April 1997
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Telehealth, Scrubbing Robots Top Tech Watch List
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2015
Health Information Management (HIM) professionals have a notoriously hard time getting folks in the C-suite to take on new health IT projects. But in one area, at least, that's beginning to change. Telehealth (or telemedicine) may have reached the tipping point in seeing a return on investment,....
Telehealth Holds Promise for the Future of Healthcare
Author: Martin, Melissa
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2016
In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly traveled from 1985 to 2015, and while there he used videoconferencing to communicate with his coworker Needles. Although the real 2015 might not be exactly the world that Marty McFly found in the movie, teleconferencing with a doctor and other te....
TELEhealth for MEDicare (TELE-MED) Act Group Support Letter
Author: AHIMA; et al.
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: February 25, 2014
Letter in support for the TELEhealth for MEDicare (TELE-MED) Act of 2013.
Technology of Telemedicine
Author: Welch, Julie J.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 1999
Telemedicine is "the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications for the health and education of the patient or healthcare provider and for the purpose of improving patient care."1 According to a recent report to Congress by the US Departments of....
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